Shipping Containers to Smart FIFA Stadium
We hear about recycling of plastics, waste and water. But have you heard about recycling of whole sport stadium. Yes, this is what exactly being done in Qatar. Not only that, it would be re-used in other places anywhere in the world. Recycle and Reuse. Qatar's latest World Cup Stadium is coming to life, one shipping container at a time. Sustai...
Organic, Smart Solution
The concept of organic farming is not a new thing for the farmers of India, it has been in practice since ancient times. The primary aim of organic farming is to help the soil stay in good health through the use of biological and organic wastes to produce nutritious food. Using organic farming technique helps in sustainable and pollution free produ...
32 Years and Healing
Earth without Ozone is like a house without a roof The theme for this year celebrates over three decades of remarkable international cooperation to protect the ozone layer and the climate under the Montreal Protocol. It reminds us that we must keep up the momentum to ensure healthy people and a healthy planet. The Montreal Protocol has led to the p...
Smart, Smarter and the Smartest
History is made: Results would be out soon Ranking for the wealthy people in the world is pass time of many media agencies. That exercise is well surveyed and recorded with great regularity. University ranking based on academic criteria is also made available globally and nationally almost annually. But here comes the ranking of the top ...
SCCN in the forefront
Posted on: 15 August 2017 By: admin Learning by doing - Smart Campus Cloud Network explained The Smart Campus Cloud Network has been at the forefront in driving the Sustainability mission for new India. The UGC (University Grant Commision) of Ministry of Human Resource Management has urged the college campuses across India to undertake SCCN activit...
Hon. Prakash Javadekar,India's Central Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting, who launched the dashboard of SCCN on 5th June 2017 reviewed the progress of the Network. His mentoring was instrumental in transforming SCCN to make it a National and now a Global movement. He agreed that India's ...
To write an history, one must have an account of the past and stories of what went before. To write about a future, on the other hand, we must have narrative of the imagination and what lies ahead. But what about 'History of the Future'? At various times in the past, the great visionaries have imagined the future. They predicted forthcoming revolut...
Progress towards the Global Goals in the University and College Sector The Global Goals are a global blueprint that are designed to deliver progress, peace and prosperity for people and the planet. But to turn this plan into action, the UN and nation states need all the support it can get from partners in Higher and Further Education Institutions. ...
Clean and Smart Campus Award application that started on 14th June to 19th July 2019 for AICTE approved educational institutes is now on its scrutiny process. The esteemed experts on 7th August 2019 came together in AICTE Headquarter, New Delhi for the review of 739 applications and first level of scrutiny. The meeting was attended by the following...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) India hosted a meeting on 9th April 2019 to streamline environment and sustainable activities in the educational campuses. The commission in its 540th meeting on 9th April decided to develop a guideline on 'Eco-friendly and Sustainable Campus Development'. Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) will be an instrumen...
Exciting and challenging journey towards PM Modi's target of 'USD 5 trillion economy of India within 5 years' has already begun in India's college and university campuses. A national competition of 'Clean and Smart Campus' for the higher education institutes launched by All India Council of Higher Technical Institutes (AICTE) of Ministry of Human R...
SCCN for "Energy and City of the Future" Smart Campus Cloud Network will be featured in International Conference 'Energy and City of the Future' to be held on 18th – 20th December 2019, as Mr. Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre and Former Director UNEP has been invited to speak on the UN SDGs and its linkages with energy forum. MITADT Un...
'Go Green' – An individual responsibility The concept of "going green" has become a trend among youth since recent years. With climate change and other environmental issues in many of today's headlines, it has become fashionable -- even profitable -- to use the term. But many lack a full appreciation of and awareness for what it really means to go ...
Why action is needed? "A job which is not green is not decent". Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time which is a cross-cutting development issue that affects every aspect of sustainable development. The effects of climate change worsen the existing economic, political and humanitarian struggles and affect human development. S...
29th July 2019 The concept of Earth Overshoot Day was first coined by Andrew Simms, from the UK think tank – New Economics Foundation, in association with Global Footprint Network, which is an international Research Organisation working towards putting an end to the ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision making. ...
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