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Sustainable living developments
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This blog has been created by the author, Dr J D Bapat, to inform viewers on the current developments in sustainable living techniques in different areas, such as housing, energy, environment and so on
Recent Posts
German climate scientist sounds alarm
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and chair of the German government’s Advisory Council on Global Change says:“The window of opportunity to avert the most serious impacts of climate change is...
Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is the application of nanotechnoloy to medicine. It includes medical imaging, lab-on-a-chip, quantum dots and other novel diagnostic tools, biosensors, regenerative medicine, advanced and “smart” medical materials, drug target...
PEV: plug-in electric vehicles
Plug-in electric vehicles reduce overall carbon emissions by up to 70 percent (100 percent if charged by zero-carbon, renewable energy sources) and lower fuel costs by about 80 percent.The vehicles running on renewables (like solar and wind) and elec...
Carbon budget
The carbon budget can be defined as the amount of tolerable global emissions over a period of time to limit the average global temperature increase to 2 deg C. The budget is from 1990 to 2050. Till 2008, we used up approximately 40 percent of the ...
Earth too has limits
Out of the nine biophysical thresholds that must be observed in order to prevent disastrous consequences for humanity, we've already surpassed three, according to a feature article published in Nature (see Ref.). The report looked at nine different ...
Five steps to sustainability
The five steps to sustainability, as outlined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD):Establish clear and transparent price signals that reflect the external environmental cost of greenhouse gas emissions Incorporate li...

