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Global Warming - Local solutions?

24 March 2009 - 2:55pm — psaram42

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Al Gore Jr (b1948) and IPCC of Geneva Switzerland for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. A must Listen 20 minuets “Al Gore Nobel Speech”

Arkavathi river cascades

12 March 2009 - 3:03pm — L.C.nagaraj

Dear friends,
as all of you probably know Bangalore was receiving 100% of drinking water from Hesaraghatta and T.G.Halli reservior in the olden days. Even after explosive growth of the metro bangalore was receiving 20% of the drinking water from these reserviors. These 2 reserviors are situated in the tank cascade system of 2 river tributories called Arkavathi and kumudhwathi.

Lessons learnt - but the hard way!

19 February 2009 - 5:56pm — murali772

Agara lake & S T bed trees 012.jpg I moved into an apartment complex in S T Bed layout, Koramangala, about 4 years back. The layout was developed by BDA over a decade back on Sinivagilu tank bed, quite as per the widely prevalent practice then. For a layout on a tank bed, the drainage work done by BDA was totally inadequate, and as a result, the asphalting on the roads progressively deteriorated, making the drive through the layout worse than a ride on a camel back.

21st century’s dinosaurs

24 December 2008 - 1:44pm — murali772

What amazes me is they never seem to learn, even as our industry gets ready like its mighty US counterparts to go out with a begging bowl to the government for a bailout. This is possibly because they never listen. Today, even with the credit-tsunami, industry leaders and their sycophants in the finance world are all saying, "we never saw this coming". The reason is simple.

Hasiru Usiru

24 December 2008 - 1:11pm — murali772

Start: 24 Dec 2008 19:00

End: 24 Dec 2008 20:00

Timezone: Asia/Calcutta

Today (Wednesday) 7 PM at Koshy's, St Mark's Road, Bangalore to discuss what needs to be done to arrest the indiscriminate felling of avenue trees in the name of road widening.

All are welcome.

Muralidhar Rao

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Scrutinizing environmental clerances

23 December 2008 - 8:25am — silkboard

Last month, I spotted two notices from Prestige Group announcing environmental clearances for their projects (Dynasty, Exora). What caught my attention was that document numbers and a website were mentioned, I assume for us, the public, to see the documents for ourselves.

Bangalore Traffic - problems & solutions

20 December 2008 - 2:01pm — murali772

Presentations linked here were made by Mr Dasrathi (CEO of Cadem, Bangalore, and a member of Hasiru Usiru), who, even with being in his mid-forties, uses a bicycle for over 75% of the trips he makes, including client visits. He has stated that anyone may use these presentations in any way - view online, download, distribute, put them in blogs, whatever, as long as the message spreads.

Use of Public Transport picks up in the US

10 December 2008 - 10:07am — murali772

Americans rode subways, buses and commuter railroads in record numbers in the third quarter of this year, even as gas prices dropped and unemployment rose.

Palace Property sold for Rs 6,000 cr?

8 December 2008 - 6:01pm — murali772

Wodeyar has sold prime land in Palace Grounds to a city-based developer. Many high profile realtors were interested in the deal. But in the end leading developer Dayanand Pai struck the deal. It is disputed land but already been sold for Rs6,000 crore.

The automobile industry burden

20 November 2008 - 9:58am — murali772

The U.S. auto giants General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are more a fine example of how things work in the age of unbridled corporate power. Of how the collapse of restraint on that power must fracture economy and society. They also set the very standards that the Indian elite lusts to emulate.

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