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SCCN Drives Transformative Change.
SCCN Team
General
One of the few achievements of the United Nations since its birth, 75 years ago, is that World War III has been avoided. I wish that could be true. World War III has indeed started. It is the war between Nature and Humans. Nature is in dangerous decline and may lose this war. But we the people' do not realize that Nature's defeat will also herald t...
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Smart Campus for Smart Future
SCCN Team
General
 Smart Campus for Smart Future The news that newly elected US President Joe Biden has decided to rejoin the Paris Agreement is reassuring to environmentalists. When I shared this news through my social media, many people replied that what exactly is this Paris Agreement? Five years after the agreement was signed by 197 countries, many of my fr...
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Cattura il Sole [Catching the Sun]: MIT ADT University
SCCN Team
General
The Sun has been worshiped as a life-giver to our planet since millions of years. The industrial and commercial ages gave us the understanding of sunlight as an energy source. India is endowed with vast solar energy potential. About 5,000 trillion kWh per year solar energy is incident over India's land area with most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per sq....
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International E-Internship Program (IEIP)
SCCN Team
General
TERRE Policy Centre  TERRE Policy Centre's International E-Internship Program (IEIP) is specially designed for undergraduates who are about to graduate and the students above grade 10 of international high schools. Under the guidance of the international team led by Dr. Rajendra Shende, former Director of United Nations Environment Program (UN...
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Doors Were Closed But Not Minds
SCCN Team
Sustainable Development
Universities march towards Sustainable Development​  ​Nearly five years after September 2015, when for the first time in human history the world community convened by United Nations unanimously agreed to pursue 17 Sustainable Development Goals there was an abrupt and jolting pause. Humanity was trapped in the COVID19 Pandemic. But not young mi...
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Why a building in the educational campus should be certified as Green Building under LEED/GRIHA/IGBC
SCCN Team
Green buildings
A Building Sector is responsible for more than 40 percent of global energy used, and as much as one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in developed and developing countries. What is a Green Building? Green Building is a comprehensive framework for all activities associated with a built environment such as construction, design, operation...
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The year 2020 that was not . Cynicism, negativism or realism?
SCCN Team
General
I have been surmising and reflecting in the wee hours of 2021. How can we describe year 2020 in one word? I asked this question not only to my friends from my generation but also from Next-Gen in the universities and colleges. Here are some illustrative feedback: Most Common description-Unprecedented, Unforgettable, Unbelievable, Unreal, Horrific, ...
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Sowing the seeds for tomorrow’s climate leaders - Carbon neutrality pledge by Indian educational institutes
SCCN Team
General
"Sprint to Glasgow" has been launched on 12th December 2020 . But guess how many such sprints and ambition Summit the world leaders have started till now?Each has ended with no results, even opposite results. It is not just 5th Anniversary of Paris Climate Agreement. Just one day before on 11th Dec it was 23rd anniversary of fatally flawed Kyoto Pr...
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SCCN joins AICTE to launch “Clean and Smart Campus Award 2020”
SCCN Team
General
The first ever ' Clean and Smart Campus Award', inspired by TERRE's project of Smart Campus Cloud Network ( SCCN ) was launched by AICTE among thousands of Indian colleges in 2019. Second 2020 edition is now launched. Colleges have received the questionnaires finalized jointly by AICTE, TERRE and International Institute of Waste Management (IIWM) a...
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Integrated Farming System
SCCN Team
General
Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV), RahuriSDG Stories in Agriculture The IFS or Integrated Farming System comes under the Farmer FIRST Programme (FFP), which is an ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) initiative to move beyond the production and productivity, to privilege the smallholder agriculture and complex, diverse and risk prone ...
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