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Event highlights eating right
Good health food has acuired new meaning these days. »
Mass beheading of buffaloes at Gadhimai festival
Mass beheading of 3,500 buffaloes at Nepal’s Gadhimai festival,
but death toll is record low thanks to crackdown by animal groups
and Indian law enforcement »
Solar College
In late 2015, a solar power unit was set up at St. Xavier’s College »
E-waste Eliminators
Hulladék [noun][Hungarian] (plural hulladékok) = garbage (any leftover waste or scraps).
Their name means garbage, but e-waste recycller Hulladek is reaping gold from trash! »
Paper recycling workshop
Ankur Kala is a venerable NGO, working for the dignity and
livelihood of women since four decades. »
Gifts of Nature!
A beautiful way of of leaving a prepetual legacy is planting a tree,
and a number of organisations are now also coming forward to hold mass plantings »
Mother Earth celebrated WED
Second edition of the Mother Earth Foundation's
annual day of green activities saw many of the same NGOs participating. »
Recovering treasure from the Strange Land of Away
When you throw something "away", it doesn't magically dissappear. Especially if it is something nonbiodegradable, it will probably stick around for centuries... »
Plastic Menace
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of the Animals) set out a
protest for Meena, the cow who ate up to 47 kilograms of plastic!. »
'Dead cow' to protest plastic menace
In bid to curb plastic usage worldwide, PETA India and vegan india movement points
to cow who ingested 47 kilograms of the material.. »
Everlasting, living memorial
Imortalise a loved one by planting a tree - that's the pitch of a new
project of Green for Life Foundation's ongoing tree campaigns. »
A reel green life
Earth Day Network, in partnership with NGO Bichitra Pathshala
and educational institution iLEAD – flagged off Earth Reel 2018. »
Just Dabadigo!
Dabadigo is an electric bike rental startup, initially started in
Kolkata in October, 2016. They're now on an expansion drive
and their sparkling white Hero EVs should soon be as ubiquitous as a Uber! »
Green Patrol!
With the Kolkata RTO restarting registration so electric vehicles,
Kolkata Police lost no time in deploying a fleet of Mahindra E2Os they procured in 2016. »
Eating green
Like any other lifestyle change, going vegan not only takes
getting used to, but it takes time to determine what will work best for you... »
Grow trees... don't just plant them!
Green for Life Foundation's tree planting crew with a
motley crew of volunteers inagurate Tree Maintenance Events
for the city of Kolkata. »
Saying Trees with Durgesh Agrahari
Head of Partnerships and Projects, Say Trees, Bengaluru was in
Kolkata (Calcutta ) for a 3 day visit on invitation of the
Green for Life Foundation.. »
PHOTO FEATURES
The Perfect Storm
Aila's beauty and her train of destruction. »
City on the boil
Kolkata's (Calcutta) experienced heat wave conditions this summer. »
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