We need BI more than AI
Human Natural intelligence now has now found additional digital muscle, called AI-Artificial Intelligence! World is full of AI-buzz. AI-conferences and debates are floodingthe premises of governments, business and the academics. Even the UN Secretary-General has established a High-Level Advisory Body of 39 members on AI.The benefits of AI as well a...
Cold Hard Facts about Hot Planet
It is now confirmed by The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that the past year 2024 was the warmest year in the recorded history of the global temperatures. This conclusion emerged from the six international datasets, that WMO scientists worked with. But that's not all, the past decade (2015-2024) was the warmest decade on the records in an ...
German Students Explore Net Zero Collaborations at Green TERRE Activity Center, Pune
A delegation of postgraduate students from ESMT Berlin, Germany's premier business school, visited the Green TERRE Activity Center to explore Indo-German partnerships for advancing Net Zero Universities. Facilitated by the Rotary Clubs of India and Germany, the visit highlighted practical sustainability solutions and global academic collaboration. ...
Moving White Mountains that Make Water Flow
But How Long? The United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 as the 'International Year of Glaciers Preservation' and 2025-2034 as the 'Decade of Action for Cryosphere-Sciences'. It also declared 21stMarch as the very first 'World Day of Glaciers'. The next day - 22nd March is World Water Day that is being observed for more than 30 years. The su...
Springs are Still Silent
Can we make them Buzz Again? No other woman ever transformed the way the global community comprehends our planetary ecosystem than the one who grew up in the farm. She was extraordinary catalyst for much needed transformation. A dire need ofthat time and even today! When her book titled "Silent Spring' was published in 1962, I was living in s...
World has produced till now nearly 10 billion tonnes of plastic from 1950 when the commercial production of plastic began. 70% of it has gone into waste and most of that discarded plastic (waste) has been resting in the landfills, oceans and the ecosystem. That's what UNEP's data states. That sound like statements worth reading and discarding,...
'Artificial' means 'not Natural'. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is therefore not a 'Natural Intelligence'. It is not like human brains and human instincts. AI is related to machine-intelligence. Simple definition of AI is: the ability of a computer to think and learn. With AI, computers perform tasks that can be processed faster than and e...
When the war in Gaza was just 15 days away from its first anniversary, and invasion of Ukraine by Russia had already crossed 30 months, not to forget lesser known civil war in Sudan (Africa) that is going on for 18 months, United Nations held 'Summit of the Future' in New York on 22-23 September 2024. That was bold move by UN. Holding such glo...
We need to Sum-It all from Past and Present 'Once-in-a-generation opportunity', that's how United Nations describes the 'Summit for the Future' to be held in New York at UN Head Quarters on 22-23 September 2024. The Summit is described as 'a high-level event, bringing world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how w...
Do you know the Alphabets of Triple Crisis facing our planet - ABC? Air Pollution, Bio-Diversity Loss and Climate change! This triple crisis is crippling our planet. The first alphabet A for Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to public health globally and accounts for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year, which av...
2024 is expected to be even hotter than 2023 as per major international data monitoring organisations in the world. At the same time number of installed solar panels around the world in 2024 will also break the records as it did in 2023. Presently world gets 6% of its electricity from the solar panels, equivalent to all the electricity consumed by ...
Records are not getting broken, smashed, and shattered only regarding global warming and temperatures that began to be recorded in the 1940s. 2024 is the year when globally, more voters than ever in history will head to the polls in at least 64 countries plus the European Union! Nearly half of the population resides in these countries that would go...
The Theme of 2024 World Wild Day Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation In Wildlife Conservation. By Ian Redmond, OBE,Head of Conservation of Ecofix, Senior Wildlife Consultant for Born Free Foundation, UN Ambassador for CMS and expert advisor to Gree TERRE Foundation Happy UN World Wildlife Day . Celeb...
Message on the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji (Maharaj) On 19th February 2024, I was at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, located in the Indian state of Assam. Assam is in the Eastern Region of India known as the 'State of Rising Sun'. I was there on the IIT campus for the 'Regional Workshop of the National Movement of Net-Zer...
"Nature knows no borders" is the slogan for the most important UN wildlife conference this year. The 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals #CMSCoP14 will be hosted by the Government of Uzbekistan in the historic city of Samarkand from 12th to 17th February 2024 https://www.cms.int/cop14...
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