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It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that our cities are pedestrian-unfriendly. For years, Indian cities have widened roads at the expense of footpaths, pushed pedestrians towards foot overbridges and subways so that they don’t get in…
When we talk of food, the focus usually is on how nutritious/tasty/pricey it is, and seldom on how the food has been produced. Modern food production is an exploitatory industry established on the back of fossil fuels, chemical …
Various countries in the grip of COVID-19 pandemic have resorted to lockdown as one of the main strategies to delay the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). For India, which had one of the most stringent lockdowns in…
Roads and Mobility have become a sine qua non to a country’s development. They are an essential part of human life. Though roads and advances in transportation have helped humans fulfill their need to move from place to place, it has not been…
Modern life is so separated from the source of food that we hardly know what we put into our bodies. Not only do we live far from farmlands, that we have lost our ancient connection to the soil, but the foods that we now eat are processed in so many…
Being a Chennaite, I have been to the OMR quite often. Whenever I cross the Pallikaranai 200 feet Road towards Velachery Main Road, it’s hard to escape the foul odour emanating from the Perungudi…
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Electricity generation through sunlight is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy production sources in the world, and will continue to rise in the coming years. The economic benefits of technologies used to capture sunlight is…
COVID-19 has brought the entire world to a standstill. While the number of COVID-19 affected people has been increasing daily, people continue disregarding the rules of physical distancing, use of face masks and maintenance of personal…
For the past year, Citizen consumer and civic Action Group has been working with Greater Chennai Corporation to establish a decentralised waste management system in the city. First, we had to prepare ward-level maps of all types and…
Artificial trans fat or trans fatty acids are the fats produced industrially by partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils like palm oil, sesame oil, groundnut oil, gingelly oil, etc. Consumption of trans fats cause non-…