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Sustainable living means different things to different people. For some, it’s personal sustainability—keeping oneself going with enough money and energy to get by. For others, it’s a global thing. But yoga offers some great lessons on sustainable living that transcends both spheres, melding them into one prevailing lifestyle and mindset that can create abundance in our personal lives as well as the life we share with everyone and everything around us . Yoga is an ancient physical and spiritual practice that originated in INDIA and has been practiced for more than 5,000 years as a pathway to achieve spiritual enlightenment and union of the mind, body, and spirit (Birdee et al., 2008; Iyengar, 1976). The mind-body practice of yoga has made great gains in popularity in the Western world, especially the United States (Kappmeier & Ambrosini, 2006). The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of mixed styles of yoga practice on the health and behaviors of yoga practitione...

It only costs $4,000 to 3D print this house.  This 800 Sq-Foot Home was printed in less than 24 Hrs and it is being used to fight Homelessness. The NGO - New Story teamed with construction tech company Icon to create the VULCAN 3D Printer, which prints low-cost single-story homes.  Globally a billion people lack affordable housing and this technology could lower that number dramatically. The Vulcan's first home was unveiled in Austin, Texas. A community of 100 homes will be printed in El Salvador by 2019.  The company says the low-cost home is built using "cutting-edge materials tested to the most recognized standards of safety, comfort, and resiliency." Story Courtesy:  In The Know Innovation

Mexico has found a beautiful way to clean its polluted Air. In Mexico, the bridges and flyover columns are being converted into more than 6,00,000 sqft of vertical gardens. One of those projects is called Via Verde to transform more than 1,000 concrete pillars of the elevated highway of Mexico City to improve the air quality and aesthetics of the city. Vertical Garden by Via Verde, Mexico    Fernando Ortiz Monasterio, Founder & Director, Via Verde said “this project will produce Oxygen for more than 25,000 people each year and suck up more than 27,000 tons of harmful gases, captures more than 11,000 Pounds of dust”. Additionally, this utilizes rainwater to keep all 5,00,000 plants alive. He also mentioned that the project would not use a single drop of drinkable water, they are using all the elevated highway surfaces to capture the rainwater, which will be cleaned and used in a combination of grey water.  They also use an irrigation process in the v...

India’s new solar powered train coaches could save thousands of litres of diesel I ndia’s massive  diesel-guzzling railway network  is getting serious about its experiments with solar. On July 14, Indian Railways  rolled out its first train  with rooftop solar panels that power the lights, fans, and information display systems inside passenger coaches. Although the train will still be pulled by a diesel-powered locomotive, a set of 16 solar panels atop each coach will replace the diesel generators that typically power these appliances. The railways estimate that a train with six solar-powered coaches could save around 21,000 litres of diesel every year, worth around Rs12 lakh. In 2014, Indian Railways consumed 2.6 billion litres of diesel,  accounting for around 70%  to the network’s total fuel bill of Rs28,592 crore. The first of these trains will be pressed into service on the suburban railway network of New Delhi, one of t...

This could be the condition of the human beings in the next 30 years’ time, plastic is a classic case of how we are capable of turning every blessing we have, in too curse upon ourselves. Due to irresponsible usage plastic has become one of most serious challenges in the ecological sphere that is 8 million tons of plastics end up in oceans each year. The environmental experts say that by 2050, there could be more plastics in the ocean than the fish. We use 500 Billion plastic bags each year. Plastics makes up 10% of all the waste we generate. One of those solutions, we could prevent plastic usage. This isn’t a total solution, but it is a simple corrective step that Single –Used plastic must be banned in all the countries. (Single Used Plastic means plastic which is used only once and then thrown away. The next generation might end up in a biggest trouble of suffocation. Hence, let us all pledge to take this as a challenge and stop to use the single-used plastic, li...