Tamanna Mohapatra

Even I hadn’t  heard this term till recently.. Biomimicry seemed a very interesting concept and it promised to be an exceptionally...

The beginning scenes of the movie ‘blue gold’ show a man walking through a desert for days on end and finally dying in the desert for not...

I am a member of my local Sierra Club chapter and am quite proud of that fact…till I read this lengthy but biased article written by a...

I learnt a lot from my NYU course on food policy and food crisis.  Seeds and the controversy behind them was one of those things: It...

All books I read or websites I visit that talk about doing your part to save the planet have really great ideas on them..Some are simple...

That was the title of the 3rd in a series of 8 conferences sponsored by Columbia University alumni association. I was particularly...

I bought this book amongst the numerous books displayed at the 2009 Netimpact conference. Probably the word ‘strategy’ and the fact that...

Recently I watched BBC cover a report on water pollution in China. “Pollution from a broken oil pipeline in northern China reached one of...

In December, I worked with our local netimpact chapter (netimpact.org) to organize a sustainability panel at the Rutger’s University...

My friends sometimes give me a lot of flack for owning a Honda CRV. They say, “How can you speak about environment when you yourself...

Waste or interesting products: depends on your perspective! At a recent environmental film festival I watched a documentary called...

I am spending my MLK long weekend visiting friends at South Carolina..the trip was made in honor of my best friend’s mom who’s recovering...

I took the bus from NYC to Boston which is always better than either driving (even with a full car) or taking the train. I had a really...

I think about two years ago I bought my younger niece a really neat book titled ‘101 things to do before you turn 13!’ Although mostly US...

I have been eager to try both these concepts out; it sounds so green and romantic..turning waste into something useful. But first, I’ll...

There was sooo much hula hoo regarding Climate change talks held in Copenhagen last year. Environmentalists were hoping for big publicity...