From 2016 to 2021: Transformation in the University Campuses In words of UGCs
When in 2016, TERRE Policy Centre proposed the launch of Smart Campus Cloud Network, University Grant Commission (UGC) Chairman responded very positively and wrote to all the universities that:"The (Smart Campus Cloud) Network is poised to facilitate dialogue and sharing of ideas amongst students and faculty as a way of making the ma...
'Good Food for All'
UN Initiative for Transformation of Food-System of the World In 2019, there were about 1.2 billion youth aged 15 to 24 years in the world, or 16 percent of the global population. But these global figures do not reveal the regional inequity. For example, young people make up 77 percent of the total population in Africa. The message is clear. ...
Battling Plastic Pandemic The Role of Global Community
Modern technology has given humanity the products that made our life easy and convenient, but not necessarily healthy. Plastic is one such product. Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications. It is light in weight and can be conveniently converted into different shapes and sizes. Due to these ...
Viewing and Valuing the Nature
For all of us, nature is green. That's all. Some take holidays to go to nature only to view the 'greenery'. But many of us do not view nature's value. That is the reason why we heedlessly allow environmental damage, destruction, and degradation only to make economic progress, increase GDP and provide the higher dividend to shareholders. That will n...
Our Green World (Now or Never): Success Story of Dr N.G.P. Institute of Technology Coimbatore
We, as NGPITians, are very proud to share this success story of ours in creating a Carbon Neutral world. Carbon Neutrality means achieving net-zero Carbon emissions. As such, we do not emit much Carbon Dioxide. As a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiative, we have taken steps to removed Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere to neutralize the ...
Ghani Khan Choudhury Institute of Engineering and Technology, a CFTI under the ministry of Education, Govt. of India is located at Narayanpur, Malda, West Bengal, India. This Institute is growing in a sprawling area of 101 acres of lands, 4 Academic Buildings each of about 3024 sq. m area. Hon'ble Director GKCIET, Prof. P.R.Alapati has taken numero...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Why a building in the educational campus should be certified as Green Building under LEED/GRIHA/IGBC
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...
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, ...
"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...
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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