Doors Were Closed But Not Minds
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...
The year 2020 that was not . Cynicism, negativism or realism?
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, ...
Sowing the seeds for tomorrow’s climate leaders - Carbon neutrality pledge by Indian educational institutes
"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...
SCCN joins AICTE to launch “Clean and Smart Campus Award 2020”
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...
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 ...
Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV), RahuriSDG Stories in Campus Sustainability The Campus of MPKV Rahuri is taken up as a project for sustainability by stakeholders and others to be engaged in various activities such as waste management, vermicomposting, afforestation, irrigation and watershed development. RegionMPKV Campus at Rahuri village in...
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand UPES is the First Indian University to be awarded QS 5 Stars for Academic Development and also rated 5 Stars for Employability, Facilities and Program Strength. At UPES, students are guided and motivated to practically implement the principles learnt in classrooms through experimenta...
'Generation Unlimited' is the youth between age 10 and 24. " Without harnessing the energy, tech savvy optimism of young people, the world has no hope of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the Paris Agreement on climate change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said recently in on-line event called , "Connecting Half the Worl...
Natural and organic farming are useful methods for sustainable farming. These methods produce food grains without harming the environment. Are these methods useful for achieving the purpose of sustainable development of the United Nations? In the background of the Covid pandemic, food is the only medicine. Today the issue of health is on the river....
Background India currently has 95.2 % of its population who have access to electricity (World Development Indicators, 2017). The country has 86 mobile cellular subscriptions for every 100 people (World Development Indicators, 2018). However, it does poorly in terms of hours of service of its electricity as well as internet connections, only 1.3 peo...
Have you heard of Carbon Neutrality? Carbon Neutrality means annual zero net anthropogenic (human caused or influenced) CO2 emissions by a certain date. By definition, carbon neutrality means every ton of anthropogenic CO2 emitted is compensated with an equivalent amount of CO2 removed. Why should your Campus be Carbon Neutral? The idea is to reduc...
M S SWAMINATHAN BOTANICAL GARDEN CAMPUSSDG Stories on Biodiversity Conservation Behold an integrated and decentralized Garden for 'RET' (Rare, Endemic and Threatened) trees and plants managed in partnership with Community Conservers or Custodian Farmers. This Garden identifies ex-situ, on-farm and in-situ methods and approach of partnership mode by...
In the morning I get zoomed on subjects like 'recreating the education'. Come evening and I get webexed on 'reimagining education'. Then I get youtubed on 'rebooting the education', followed by facebooked session on 'redesigning the education'. Finally, when I go to bed I dream of 're-dreaming the education'. I consider it a welcome sign that many ...
Dr MS Swaminathan Research Foundation's (MSSRF) Botanical garden campus in Wayanad, Kerala was registered with the Smart Campus Cloud Network(SCCN) this month to support the best practices in biodiversity conservation on campus. Dr Anil Kumar, Senior Director of MSSRF hailed SCCN as an initiative much in need for mainstreaming the Sustainable Devel...
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