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Biomimicry – Better Ideas Inspired By Nature
...biomimetic flows as well. IIT-Kanpur is also carrying out research in biomimetics for human tissue engineering. Meanwhile, Biomimicry India has teamed up with the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and...
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Enactus to organize Clean Air Summit 2019 at IIT Delhi
IIT Delhi, the premier technological institution in the nation’s capital, is hosting Clean Air Summit 2019 on 22 June 2019. This summit brings together all key people, researchers, stakeholders and...
Eco News
IIT Alumni organize SEE4Water Conference to discuss water crisis
Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises (SEE), a voluntary initiative by alumni of IIT Kanpur, is organizing “See Water: Act Or Perish!” Conference on water crisis on 28 April 2018 at IIM...
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Indian innovators find hidden treasures in temple floral waste
...to recycle floral waste into amazing products. HelpUsGreen In 2015, Ankit Agarwal, a young innovator from Kanpur, was stunned to witness devotees drink river water full of sludge on the...
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IIT Madras Innovates Eco-Friendly Low-Cost Houses
...created by IIT Madras students, who have built low-cost, eco-friendly houses by using ‘Glass Fibre Reinforced Gypsum’ (GFRG) panels. They have successfully built a housing unit, which was constructed within...
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IIT Madras & EAI invite applications from climate startups for Climafix Summit 2024
Innovative startups that are solving environmental issues related to climate change are invited to participate in the Climafix Summit 2024 happening at IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai on 20 September...
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DRDO Bio-toilet Innovation to Rescue Indian Railways
...However, bio-toilets have faced some opposition because of certain disadvantages. Scientists from IIT-Kanpur believe that such toilets are suitable for houses but not for trains stating that because a large...
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Teaching Science with Toys from Trash – Arvind Gupta
...from trash. Solution – Toys That Teach Way back in 1970s, Arvind Gupta passed out of IIT-Kanpur and joined Telco in Pune. Being a passionate science educator, he was perplexed...
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Social Entrepreneurs & Enterprises invites to annual conference on funding for social sector
...is hosted by SEE, which is an initiative by IIT Kanpur Alumni Association and supported by alumni of other IITs and IIMs. SEE aims to build awareness on social issues,...
Eco News
Discussion on Low Carbon Cement LC3 at COP 22 in Marrakech
Image Courtesy – Hindu BusinessLine Development Alternatives, in association with EPFL, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay, TARA and CIDem has organized a Side Event on Low Carbon Cement – Supporting Sustainable Development...
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Infosys Foundation Invites Applications for 2019 Aarohan Social Innovation Awards
...will also offer select winners an opportunity for a residential technical mentorship at the IIT Hyderabad campus for up to 12 weeks to help them further develop and scale their...
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Ramansh Bajpai Innovates Green Translucent Geopolymer Concrete
...his master’s in Environmental Science from Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, he continued working on this innovative idea. Ramansh decided to take it one step further by developing an eco-friendly...
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Karnataka invites farm producers for Organics & Millets Mela 2019
...Delhi, Noida, Mysore, Coimbatore, Vijayawada-Guntur, Kolkata, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar, Lucknow-Kanpur, Gurgaon, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam, Surat, Nagpur, Patna, Indore. Sahaja Organics Sahaja Samrudha Organic Producer Company Ltd (Sahaja Organics) was formed in 2010. The...
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Can we Protect Our Rivers From Pollution?
...in 97 towns across the country. The list of 97 towns includes 20 big cities situated on the Ganga River banks including Kanpur, Allahabad, Haridwar and Patna. ● The Ministry...
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Jugaad innovations by Indian farmers
...is used for oil extraction, the rest of the plant goes waste after harvest. Samar Singh Bhadauria, a high-school dropout farmer from a village in Kanpur came up with an...
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Solar Conduction Dryer – Boon for Dehydrating Farm Produce
...Indian farmers require is a low-cost food preservation system that can function without power. This was the main motivation for these IIT Bombay students to develop an eco-friendly innovative solution...
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Carbon capture & utilization ideas suck in air pollution in India
...IIT undergraduates, Aniruddha Sharma and Prateek Bumb realized this huge market for carbon removal technology and decided to work on it. They created a company named Carbon Clean Solutions for...
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Breakthrough ideas emerge at EESL #innovatetoINSPIRE Challenge
...is a startup incubated in IIT Mandi, whose fundamental focus is to improve the state of the solar energy sector in India by using artificial intelligence. The Solar Labs has...
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Supercapacitors in India – Energy Storage for the Future
...to an exponential increase in the energy density of their battery and brought down the discharge rate. Now with the help of IIT-B and DRDO, they have successfully managed to...
Eco News
Green Innovators invited to apply for Industrial Green Chemistry Awards 2019
Green ChemisTree Foundation is organizing the sixth Industrial Green Chemistry World Convention on 16-17 October 2019 at IIT-Bombay in Mumbai. As part of this convention, SERB-IGCW Industrial Green Chemistry Awards...
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Eco-friendly Rakhis Revive Tradition without Environmental Harm
...course at IIT Madras in Rural Technology and Business Incubator. Scrapshala artisans have come with a unique idea of using cork as a base with rice grains and other plantable...
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Zomato & Startup India Invite Startups to Take Part in Plastic-Free Orders Packathon
...Orders Packathon is a platform that offers startups the opportunity to showcase their innovative sustainable packaging alternatives. To be eligible, startups must hold DPIIT recognition and submit their innovation before...
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Healthcare Ideas Stand out at 2019 Aarohan Social Innovation Awards
...inaccurate diagnosis. Dr. Binita S Tunga and Dr. Rashbehari Tunga of Bengaluru provided a solution to this issue. The IIT Kharagpur alumni have created an affordable and user-friendly device called...
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Less Environmental Pollution in India Means Better Disease Prevention
...of them under 30 years. Nearly 50% of the patients studied were non-smokers. Researchers from IIT-Delhi and the Tata Centre for Development studied the effects of exposure to pollution during...
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Top Renewable Energy Scholarships: Opportunities to Study Abroad
...Energy Fellowship Scheme, IIT Madras has established a new School of Sustainability, which seeks to teach new and interdisciplinary courses on sustainability, synergize research to tackle grand challenges in climate...
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Groundbreaking Innovative Solar Panel Technologies Expected in 2024
...storage of excess energy generated during peak sun hours to be used when the sun sets, thereby ensuring a consistent energy supply. Researchers from IIT Bombay and the University of...
Eco News
Hyderabad to host Electric Vehicles Conference – EVCON 2019 on 23-24 March
...institutions such as IITs, IIMs, IISc, ISB etc. will be seen at the exhibition as well as the conference. The EVCon 2019 Conference focuses on the opportunities, technical aspects and...
Green Events
Amity University invites green innovators for EcoThon 2019
...ideas in the Ecotechnovation Corner and get a chance to pitch their solutions to reputed mentors and investors in the Pitching Arena. EcoThon has partnered with Startup India Foundation, KIIT...
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Solar Agribot Innovation to Help Sugarcane Farmers
...level prizes in events such as Avalon 2K15, Technomania 2K15, Prakalp 2015 and IIT-Bombay zonal level project competitions. In this endeavor, they are participating in the Capgemini Innovators Race this...
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Team Papyrus Efficiencia creates eco-friendly paper from water weed
...biotechnology students from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha have come up with an innovative solution. Under the mentorship of Dr Vishakha Raina, these four students – Pratik...
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Fuel from Algae Promises to be a Clean Green Energy Source
...campus. Further, state-of-the-art infrastructure is being set up in many national labs such as the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IIT-Roorkee, TERI, ICGEB and many more. Meanwhile, Centre for Jatropha...
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EVREX 2018 to showcase India’s best electric vehicles in Hyderabad
...Electric, Ashok Leyland, Hero Electric, Amararaja Batteries, L&T Infra, Infosys, Eveready India etc., and researchers from premier educational institutions such as IITs, IIMs, IISc, ISB etc. will be seen at...
