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	Under Asian skies The 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit held earlier this year in Bhutan focused on climate change. The subcontinent is facing unprecedented disasters with extreme precipitation events in many locations and public perception seems to link these with climate change. Read more The Telegraph, U.K. apologises to Dr Pachauri The Telegraph has apologised for their article published on 20 December 2009 - " Dr Pachauri and his business interest". Read more Megadiverse India! India is one of the 12 megadiverse countries in the world, commanding 7%-8% of the world's biodiversity and supporting 16% of the major forest types, varying from alpine pastures in the Himalayas to temperate, sub-tropical, tropical forests, and mangroves in the coastal areas. In TerraGreen's cover story this time Dr Yogesh Gokhale talks about the challenges the country is facing with regard to maintaining its megadiverse status. Read more TERI offers to clean up Mumbai slick with its magic weapon The oil spill in Mumbai can be cleaned up in a matter of weeks, if the government allows TERI to take a shot at it. Scientists from the organization have proposed to the Maharashtra Government that they could use the magic weapon they have developed for the purpose and tested in Paradip. The technique uses a cocktail of bacteria which releases carbon-dioxide and neutralizes the oil, detoxifying it. Read more You and I can make Kyoto-2 work The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is due to begin in less than four months from now, at Cancun, Mexico. As yet there are very few indications of significant milestones being achieved at that meeting. There are some who believe that the outcome of Cancun might turn out to be somewhat similar to the lack of strong steps forward witnessed last year at the 15th COP in Copenhagen. Read more Ideas for a better mineral policy Many years of regulatory neglect have resulted in a growing disquiet towards mining in India. Distributive and environmental conflicts are evident in many mineral states. State collusion with the mining industry supports the view that the government does not always reflect the interest of the people. Read more	Producing the new age green fuel TERI is exploring environment friendly and cost effective methods of synthesizing butanol from biomass through fermentation. Proved to be a better bio-fuel than ethanol, this can be major source of renewable energy in the future which industry is looking forward to. Read more TERI celebrated Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas Series of events and competitions for school and college students were organized based on the common theme, "Akshay Urja se Desh Vikas, Gaon Gaon Bijli, Ghar Ghar Prakash". Read more Development of building regulations and guidelines to achieve energy efficiency in Bangalore city Bangalore, the technology hub is experiencing rapid population growth and this is slated to escalate its power demand from 1850 MW in 2010 to 3950 MW in 2020. TERI has designed a set of guidelines to tackle this surge in power demand by increasing energy efficiency in the buildings housed in the city. Read more TERI sets path to map and offset carbon footprint for Pune To table Full Report in six months Moots battery-operated vehicles Calls for increased water conservation measures to augment the city's needs. Read more TERI and Tetra Pak launch Project SEARCH Phase II After successfully implementing Project SEARCH Phase I, Project SEARCH Phase II will now reach out to 70 more schools in Chandigarh and Mumbai as well as the 30 best performing schools of Phase I. Reaching out to 120 000 more students and teachers, the project will further spread the message to refuse, reuse, reduce, and recycle, and aim at making schools a 'garbage free zone'. Read more

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Ninth Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture

2 September 2010
Stein Auditorium, IHC, New Delhi

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U.S. - India Energy Partnership Summit 2010: Technologies & Policies for Energy Security

29 September 2010
Washington, D.C.

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Training programme on GC and HPLC techniques

6-10 September, 2010
Seminar Hall, TERI
New Delhi

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Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology Principles and Practice
Covering major renewable energy resources and technologies for their application.

CITIES: steering towards sustainability
It takes the readers straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, that can influence current strategies.

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Watch engaging and thought-provoking audio-visual content on issues related to sustainable development that includes films and documentaries, videos of TERI's field work, speeches and addresses by eminent personalities and collection of speeches and interviews by Dr R K Pachauri.

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'Forest of Reverence' The film captures the ancient tradition of sacred groves in India. Revered by local communities for generations together, the sacred groves have been protected by sheer faith. The film is the story of two native communities, who have withstood the forces of the modern world to protect their faith and forests.

Sharing compelling human interest stories, TERI films have won awards for bringing environmental issues into focus.

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TERI has developed a range of technologies that have created new paradigms of development underlining the sustainable use of natural resources, and are proven for their effectiveness and economic viability.

Reclamation of non-productive hyper-saline sandy areas using Mycorrhizal technology.

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Climate Change

Information resources on leading issues, events and
ideas on climate change.

TERI Repository | Voices | Know Climate Change
YouthConnect | Climate EduXchange

Green Buildings

Knowledge base of the current trends and practices on sustainable building design.

GRIHA: National Rating System | Sustainable Habitats | High Performance Commercial Buildings in India

LaBL Lighting a Billion Lives: Using solar technology for rural electrification.
Program Website | Greenathon - II

Youth

Platforms to engage young people and make them
aware on environmental issues.

YouthConnect | Climate EduXchange

EduGreen | Green Olympiad

Media

Enabling media to stay up-to-date on TERI's multidisciplinary work.

TerraGreen E-zine | Media Kit

TERI University

A Deemed-to-be University offering unique programmes in sustainability studies.

Programmes | Admissions | elearning

DSDS

At the forefront of Sustainable Change

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