Archive for the ‘Green for Pune’ Category
Pune-based Pringoo Uses Eco-Solvent Ink for T-Shirts
Thursday, March 19, 2009 16:29 2 CommentsPringoo.com is e-commerce company which provides people to customize gifts like t-shirts, sweatshirt, mugs, chocolate wrappers, etc. with their own messages and images. With t-shirts, which are obviously worn, they made sure that they use Eco-friendly ink only.
Organic Food Takes Root in City
Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:41 No CommentsTOI/PUNE/12th Mar. ’09: For 37-year-old Leena Karia, organic food is an indispensable part of her daily diet. She has been on organic foods for the past five years and thinks there’s a definite difference between organic and inorganic vegetables. “Vegetables definitely taste and feel more fresh,” she says. “However, you can’t really tell the difference in other [...]
20 Schools in Pune to Take Up Environment Monitoring
Thursday, February 19, 2009 17:37 No CommentsGreenPune.org has been trying for the past 2 weeks to get an appointment with the authorities, so that various poolution stats can be displayed online, at one place so that every puneite can acess them. But in vain.
School children have done it though. Following is a press coverage from The Times of India, Pune edition.
TOI/PUNE/19th [...]
Spot a Leopard in City and a Deer Next Door
Thursday, February 19, 2009 17:22 No CommentsIndianExpress/PUNE/19th Feb ‘09: Pune is aiming for a safari park each for leopards and deer, with the former planned under the jurisdiction of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the latter on the terrain of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) The civic bodies are looking to allocate 100 acres for each project, but both will [...]
Praj Makes Ethanol from Corn Cob, Bagasse
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 19:24 2 CommentsThe following is from a press release sent out by Pune based Praj Industries.
10 February, 2009, Pune: Praj Industries, the globally leading biofuels technology & solutions Company announced break-through in cellulosic biomass to ethanol technology at Pilot Scale. Praj formally inaugurated its cellulosic ethanol pilot plant at its R & D Centre called Praj Matrix [...]