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The Hidden Costs of Wasting Food and Water
Wasting food is not just about hunger and starving people — it is about wasted water, energy, and effort. Hello readers, People love food...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Mar 222 min read


Water for Peace: India’s Role in a Thirsty World
Water scarcity is no longer just an environmental challenge but a geopolitical fault line demanding urgent cooperation.
Kishore M. Paknikar
Mar 214 min read


The Vanishing Green: Rethinking Development in India
The Aravalli mountain range, stretching over 700 kilometres across northwestern India, has long stood as a natural bulwark against the...
Rajender Kumar Sharma
Mar 163 min read


Highway to Heaven or Road to Ruin? Maharashtra’s Shaktipeeth Gamble
The Mahayuti government’s grand expressway vision faces the twin spectres of farmer unrest and electoral peril.
Abhijit Joshi
Mar 144 min read


Food Waste-A Critical Issue
Hello readers, The part of Thane city where I live has a beautiful, much wider, well constructed road that runs straight about one...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Mar 82 min read


Vermicompost Set up
Hello readers, In my last article, I had given a brief introduction of earthworms and their ability to eject highly nutriotious excreta...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Feb 283 min read


Vermicomposting- 'Friends of Farmers' at our service!
“Worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, perforating and loosening the soil, rendering it pervious to rains and fibers of the...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Feb 212 min read


The Oxford of the East is bursting at the seams
Once a veritable pensioner’s paradise, Pune has regressed into a decaying metropolis gasping under the weight of its own progress. It is...
Sneha Johari
Feb 204 min read


Do’s and Don’ts of Biocomposting
In my last week’s article, I had given a brief account of some of the activities of NGO Paryavaran Dakshata Mandal and about the green...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Feb 142 min read


A Valuable Resource
Dear Readers, hopefully you have now prepared yourself to segregate your household waste into ‘wet’ or ‘biodegradable’ and ‘dry’ or...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Feb 72 min read


Ready for home composting now?
From my last week’s article, you must have understood what to expect while your compost is on the way to maturity or already matured. So...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Feb 12 min read


Bio-compost: A Self- Sustaining Natural Ecosystem
In my last week’s article, I had mentioned that fully ‘matured’ biocompost in your compost bin becomes a well-developed natural ecosystem...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Jan 252 min read


Things to Avoid In Compost Bin
Last week we tried to understand what kind of biodegradable waste ….oh..wait a minute! Shouldn’t we call it as a ‘raw material’ rather...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Jan 172 min read


Food Waste As Compost Bin
Hello Dear Readers, This week, I thought of giving you a pictorial representation of the kind of vegetable and food waste you can add to...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Jan 112 min read


Feel it and Smell it
Dear readers, Wish you all a happy and prosperous new year! Llast week my article gave you a basic protocol of how to set up your own...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Jan 32 min read


DIY-Creating Your Own Compost Bin (CYOCB)
Ready to have fun while taking care of your kitchen waste? Follow the steps below. Your time starts now!! 1. Take a large plastic bucket...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Dec 28, 20242 min read


Divide and Rule – Do It Yourself (DIY)
So, friends. Did you try that banana peel experiment yet to learn how fresh, yellow peel turns crumbly, black soil? Ever wondered why and...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Dec 21, 20242 min read


Will AI Save the Planet?
Optimistic advocates for AI say this environmentally costly technology will become more sustainable with time. We can use AI more...
The Conversation
Dec 18, 20243 min read


Dumping grounds
This seems to be a million dollar question. As we learnt from my last week’s article, open dumping of garbage has potential to spread...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Nov 30, 20242 min read


‘Anatomy’ of a Landfill: Open Dumping Ground
The open dumping grounds are the depots of all different kinds of germs….mostly the ‘bad’ ones! Bad because those germs have tremendous...
Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Nov 23, 20242 min read
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