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| SOS:
In Extreme Danger |
 One
type of living being disappears from the face of this
earth every twenty minutes! SOS: In Extreme Danger reveals
the most critically endangered plants and animals in
the world as well as places and cultures in danger due
to climate change. |
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| Agriculture
for Food, Nutritional Security, and Rural Growth |
TERI organized an international
conference on agriculture for food, nutritional security,
and rural growth during 25–27 May 2006, in the
memory of Prof. B P Pal, who conceptualized the strategy
for the Green Revolution. During the conference, lessons
from the Green Revolution, emerging issues in public–private
partnership, GM crops, issues related to intellectual
property, biopharming and possibility of producing biofuels,
and biosecurity were debated on. This book is a compilation
of the discussions during the conference. |
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| CESE
building, IIT Kanpur awarded five star GRIHA rating |
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The CESE (Centre for Environmental
Sciences and Engineering) building at IIT Kanpur has been
awarded five star GRIHA rating by TERI. The evaluation committee
has awarded a final score of 93 out of 100 to the building.
The building has incorporated many green features following
the TERI-GRIHA recommendations. |
| Lighting
a billion lives |
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A total of 1.6
billion people in the world lack access to electricity,
and 25% of them live in India. TERI commits to brightening
the lives of one billion people by replacing kerosene
and paraffin lanterns with solar lighting devices, providing
better illumination and a smoke-free indoor environment,
and by providing livelihood opportunities both at the
individual and village levels. |
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