Green Hills Group has been working for last 10 years in rain water harvesting and tree plantation in Pune hills mainly Hanuman tekadi and Chaturshingi tekadi. They have been successful in converting rocky hanuman tekdi in Greenary in last ten years. Ravi Purandare, Chairman (Past Secretary) and key founder member of Green Hills group said, “We […]
More urban women are using hi-fibre sanitary napkins. The muslin nappy for babies has been replaced by thick diapers and none of these are biomedical waste , yet, are toxic. Waste pickers injure hand from pins and glass pieces. But the worst form of waste, sanitary napkins and diapers. In an attempt to reduce these encounters with
Wakad Lake is located a few hundred metres before the Kalewadi phata chowk, along the Aundh-Ravet Road. It is located at a prime location in the fast developing area of Wakad, which was earlier with the Pimpri-Chinchwad New Township Development Authority. It was later transferred and brought under the development control of the PCMC. The site
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Recently, a city based non-governmental organization Janadhar has taken an initiative to convert kitchen waste into fertilizers and the first stock of three tonne fertilizer was supplied to farmers from Mulshi tehsil of Pune district. The kitchen waste and huge piles of dumped vegetables at the wholesale market will no longer be the food for stray
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City-based NGO Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) in collaboration with the Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global in the US, will take up research projects on conservation in Western Ghats. The research centre will come up in Sangameshwar, in Ratnagiri district. The conservation projects will focus on community-based approach programs that will benefit the
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According to the findings of the emission inventory by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, (IITM) Pune, Emission from diesel-operated vehicles and dust from road construction have emerged as major pollutants in the city. College students have helped collect information from source (hotels, vehicles, slums, industry) of pollution for the emission inventory under the guidance of
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Garbage is one of the biggest problem for Pune. Garbage issue has acquired serious dimensions and serious efforts must be taken to resolve it. Yashwantrao Chavan Shahar Swachhata Abhiyan carried out a meeting with members of 16 societies at Dhankawadi in presence of Suresh Jagtap, head of solid waste management department of PMC. During the
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Traffic police observe employees of industries on the Old Pune-Mumbai Highway stretch regularly going the wrong way on narrow service roads to avoid a detour away from city, posing grave risks to other commuters While several traffic initiatives have been undertaken by authorities all over the city to facilitate commuters in corpo rate-heavy zones, it
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Mounting garbage, including construction debris, on city streets and the riverbed and the state government’s delay in providing land for waste management has prompted the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to clean up its own mess. Now, a two-acre plot of barren land at Wagholi has been identified by the civic body to set up a
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