Environment

 The durability factor

Some mud houses built on the outskirts of Bangalore have developed cracks, raising doubts about the viability of mud as a building material. What went gone wrong?

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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 As strong as steel

Efforts to make mud suitable for constructing houses have been going on for years and there have been significant breakthroughs.

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14/10/1992
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 Mud is the medium

ARCHITECTS hoped to establish mud as a viable building medium when they set out to build the country's first major environmentally-sound building. The mud headquarters in Delhi of Development

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14/10/1992
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India should guide the world on fighting climate change

Moving sustainability from ideas to reality and regaining the leadership of developing countries

 

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Budget speech 2011-2012: Shiela Dikshit, Chief Minister, Govt of NCT of Delhi

Budget speech 2011-2012: Shiela Dikshit, Chief Minister, Govt of NCT of Delhi.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Government of NCT of Delhi
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Economy, Environment, Delhi, Health, Education, Water Supply, Sanitation, Transport, Housing, Urban Development, Energy, Finance
Environment

New Industrial Policy for Delhi released

Publication Date: 
05/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Delhi, Housing, Pollution, Environment, Development
Environment

Gee, we're Green!

Much to the worry of environmentalists, India is on the way to becoming the third largest carbon emitter by 2015. But there is some good news, too. Indian and Brazilian consumers are the most eco-friendly in the world, says a recent study.

Publication Date: 
08/06/2008
Week (Kochi)
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Environment, Transport, Housing, Energy, Brazil, India

Budget high on promises, low on delivery: BJP

The Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, on Tuesday termed the Delhi Budget presented by Finance Minister A. K.

Publication Date: 
26/03/2008
Hindu
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Transport, Housing, Economic Development, Education, Delhi, Planning Commission
Agriculture

 FEMA admits high formaldehyde levels in travel trailers

The us Federal Emergency Manag-ement Agency (fema) has admitted high levels of formaldehyde in travel trailers and mobile homes the government provided as emergency housing in the Gulf Coast after

Publication Date: 
14/03/2008
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Health Effects, Storms, Disaster Housing, Housing, United States Of America (US), Toxins

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