What is it? The process of composting simply requires segregating a heap of wetted organic matter known as green waste (leaves, food waste) and allowing the materials to break down into humus after period of weeks or months. Compost contains a full spectrum of essential plant nutrients and is the key ingredient in organic farming. […]
Imagine a fish without water, can it survive? Now, imagine the world without trees, can we survive? Global warming has had a serious impact on our motherland. It claims approximately 300,000 lives every year and affects 300 million people. Reports claim that 2015 and 2016 are the hottest years ever the earth has witnessed. Our […]
Waste has become a major problem in today’s world. The reasons being the increasing population and uncontrollable resource utilisation. What the world see’s today is just a glimpse of an unimaginable threat to mother earth. To solve this problem we at ‘Hara Jeevan’ promote waste management by different methods out of which Pit Composting is a easier one. Compost […]
As cited by many, “Compost is a proof that there is life after death”, we can clearly apprehend its importance. Compost acts as a natural fertilizer and is quite manageable. It improves soil structure, which refers to the way inorganic particles combine with decayed organic particles, like humus. A good soil structure is beneficial and […]
India is often called a pluralistic nation where different cultures, religions and customs meld into a fragile harmony which is strong at its core. But what is often not mentioned is how poverty and rapid urbanization co-exist. This duality is nowhere more visible in the capital of India. Delhi is a city crumbling under its […]
Forests had always played a major role in the environmental history of India. Before the arrival of the Britishers, forest land was a common property resource. Far from being an open-access system that Hardin (1968) describes, India’s forests were managed, and their use was strictly mediated by social institutional structures such as caste (Gadgil and […]
Jenga—a classic game reminiscent of your childhood. You stack rectangular, wooden blocks in a tower, and then carefully slide pieces out, trying to make your move without weakening the foundation too much and toppling the tower. The concept of biodiversity is similar in the fact that the loss of too many species leads to the […]
Gail Vihar Township in Sector 23 Noida in its recently initiated drive of “Waste Segregation & Zero Waste Generation” has started segregating waste at home and also has started disposing segregated wastes separately so that wastes can be reused, recycled and thus can be reduced to zero with gradual efforts. The biodegradable wastes are being […]
Composting of Kitchen WasTE Read more blog join us By, Anuj Majhi Before going to our Kitchen let me tell you some interesting facts about what we are missing by not doing composting our Kitchen Waste. A normal person from a city generates about 700 gram of waste materials per day and something around 250 […]
