Did you know that every year thousands of golf balls are lost in our planet's waterways? This probably does not surprise anyone who plays golf. What harm could a little golf ball do anyways? Well, new studies are coming to light that the little golf ball is a big problem. As they break down they release their contents into the ecosystem. A modern golf ball is made from the following: thermoplastics, zinc oxide, zinc acrylate, benzoyl peroxide, heavy metals, polybutadiene, and other secret combinations of exotic materials not disclosed by the manufacturer. These are not good for the planet! D ..read more

The amount that we buy increases every year. According to the National Retail Federation, American shoppers buy more and more every year, with an average increase of 4.4% annually, and a record increase of 8.2% in 2020.  As we begin another year, consider adding ‘ethical shopping’ to your list of resolutions for 2022. Easier said than done, you may be saying! With so many guides to the “best ethical brands” in every industry, it can be difficult to know where to start. This guide will help you understand what ethical shopping is and how you can apply ethical shopping in your day to day li ..read more

  Recently, Tesla has launched their electric cars in the Indian market. Though there has been a mixed reaction by the Indian consumers because of the price of the cars and lack of charging facilities. It is expected that Tesla will find it difficult to compete with the Diesel and Petrol variants as well as Indian electric car manufacturers. Talking about electric cars in order to curb environmental pollution and encourage people to switch to eco-friendly transportation mode, the Union Ministry for Road Transport and Highways of India has approved a proposal to levy a ‘Green Tax’ on old v ..read more

 Humans are becoming an increasingly urban species. They want to move to metropolitan cities and urban centres for better jobs opportunities or for the excitement of the city life. And this possess a really challenging developmental question of where are all these people going to go and if you live in a city, you might have noticed the expansion and the development of cities to suburbs and this is what we call urban sprawl. In 1937, Earle Draper- one of the first city planners in the south-eastern United States coined the term ‘sprawl.’ The urban sprawl is essentially the geographical exp ..read more

QUAD is an informal strategic dialogue between four democracies namely India, the United States, Japan and Australia. The objective of this group is to secure the Indo-pacific region from Chinese expansion policy.   Origin of QUAD: 2004-2007 In order to understand the importance of the QUAD let’s see its origin first. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was the first major disaster of the 21stcentury in which thousands of people died, lakhs of people were displaced from their hometown, billions of dollar worth property damaged. That time the disaster relief and rescue operation in the Indian Oc ..read more

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP is a trade agreement involving 10 ASEAN nations namely (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) and five nations with which they have a free Trade Agreement, those are (Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea). RCEP came into existence at the 37th ASEAN Summit hosted virtually by Vietnam. It is the world’s biggest trade deal comprising 15 countries, 2.2 bn people, combined Gross Domestic Product of $26.2 tn Till recently, India was also a part of the trade deal, whi ..read more

At the time of pandemic the world order is changing in a very structural sense. Today our world is in the state of chaos. This has been a matter of concern because earlier the world was not that much interconnected. But today when the information technology has revolutionised the way we see our world, the nations are so much interconnected, so that the chaos can have a multiplier effect. The famous Henry Kissinger in his book “World Order” had said that “there has never been a truly world order.” According to him the four vision of world order are:       I.   ..read more

  The Government of India has notified an ordinance to constitute a Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region (NCR) and its adjoining areas. The ordinances also disbanded the Supreme Court appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) that was setup in 1998 for curbing air pollution in the NCR Key Mandate of the new Commission The new commission will supersede all existing bodies including the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as well as state governments in matters of air pollution mitigation. Though, the powers of CPCB and its ..read more

  On January 30, 2019 the Indian Sundarbans was accorded the status of Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. The Sundarbans comprises of hundreds of Islands and a network of rivers, tributaries and creeks in the delta of the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers at the mouth of the Bay of Bengal of India and Bangladesh. Indian Sundarbans constitutes over 60% of the country’s total mangrove forest area. It is the 27th Ramsar site in India and the largest protected wetland in the country. Ten more site has been accorded the status of Wetlland of Internattioal Importanc ..read more

  Haphazard development in urban areas has led to undesirable changes in the landscape. The areas which were once open land or covered with vegetation have been converted into concrete forests, asphalt covered roads, sidewalks and other infrastructure. The urbanization leads to the formation of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) - the phenomenon referring to warmer temperature in the city relative to outlying rural areas. According to the Environment Protection Agency, bigger cities in US have air temperature up to 5ºCmore than the nearby natural land cover. UHIseffects are most intense during the ..read more