Tamanna Mohapatra

I know my blog site is primarily for me to share thoughts with myself..so here I am inspired by my 2 hour spring hike to take up blogging...

Our Sierra Club chapter was leading a hike last Saturday in this part of the NJ pine barrens. The name “pine barrens” refers to the...

University of Pennsylvania has named 2010-2011 academic year the “year of water”(more info on that at http://yearofwater.org). The point...

As events chair for my local netimpact chapter, I thought it would be a great idea to have annual panels on the state of sustainability...

This weekend was one of the best and most memorable weekends I had spent in a while. What made it special was the surroundings, the...

Last year I was not able to take part in the National Trails day which made me even more determined to take a hike this year in honor of...

It feels good to visit a place that you have been planning to for the last few years. What feels even better is arriving there and...

I love nature and the outdoors; therefore it was quite fitting that I would someday join an organization like Sierra Club. For those who...

The first thing special you will feel about this book is how it actually feels. And there is a good reason for that. In going with the...

You may ask how on earth are they related..not much, except I am blogging on the latter while sitting surrounded by the former I live in...

Not sure how I stumbled upon it, but I am very happy to have come across this term ’permaculture’ and learn more about it. According to...

The other day I was talking to my mother about the really hot weather in my town back in India. My mother keeps complaining the...

I am pretty sure most people reading this know what I am talking about. Hell’s Kitchen is this area in NYC (9th ave, 40s) was famous in...

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 fond of reading and recently (over the past two or three years) have ventured into the world of Indian literature. Being an Indian,...

That was the title of the third in a series of six events organized by Columbia University Alumni division.  As usual, it was held at a...

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...

I know I  haven’t posted in a while but it’s not because of lack of topics or writing skills..more like lack of mood and time..So here’s...