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0.23 m3 of Methane gas can light one 40 Watt bulb for an hour !
Posted by: titli on: June 8, 2009
0.23 m3 of Methane gas can light one 40 Watt bulb for an hour !
Plants that can beat Indoor Pollution
Posted by: titli on: June 4, 2009
The best plants that can beat indoor pollution.
Amount of energy used in one Google Search
Posted by: titli on: May 31, 2009
An average query uses about 1 kJ of energy and emits about 0.2 grams of carbon dioxide. For comparison, the average adult needs about 8000 kJ a day of energy from food, so a Google search uses just about the same amount of energy that your body burns in ten seconds.
Spam is slowly eating the environment
Posted by: titli on: May 5, 2009
Key Findings:
An estimated worldwide total of 62 trillion spam emails were sent in 2008
Globally, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh), or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). That’s equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes in the United States, with the same GHG emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion [...]
1 kg of CO2 is emitted when
Posted by: titli on: March 30, 2009
you fly in a plane a distance of 2.2 km or 1.375 miles.
Operate your computer for 32 hours (60 Watt consumption assumed)
Production of 5 plastic bags
Production of 2 plastic bottles
Production of 1/3 of an American cheeseburger (yes, the production of each cheeseburger emits 3.1 kg of CO2!)
Methane Gas from Cow Dung
Posted by: titli on: March 26, 2009
We have the world’s largest livestock population of 250 million, which produces close to 125 million tonnes of cowdung.
1 cow = o.5 tons of cowdung
The gobar gas research station in Uttar Pradesh has established that one cow gives enough cowdung in a year to produce methane gas equivalent to 225 litres of petrol in energy [...]
By recycling 1 ton of paper we save
Posted by: titli on: March 22, 2009
17 trees
6953 gallons of water
463 gallons of oil
587 pounds of air pollution
3.06 cubic yards of landfill space
4077 Kilowatt hours of energy
(Source: Weyerhaueser Info)
Making your own organic fertilizers
Posted by: titli on: March 17, 2009
- In: Plant Care
- 1 Comment
Many commercial fertilizers on the market today contain ingredients that may harm or burn plants. The solution? Go organic. Think of the things you use every day.. specifically food items, such as eggs.
the titli has arrived
Posted by: titli on: March 11, 2009
- In: developments| success
- 1 Comment
“Where do we start, how do we start…” We checked what we already had. We had enough hands and INOX (Pune) was willing to be a part of this. That left us with sourcing the plants and pot. Chetan was ready with a list of numbers and addressess. The four of us, Siddhu, Nikhil, Chetan [...]
Catch us “Live”
Posted by: titli on: March 1, 2009
A few calls, a handful of exuberant friends and a lot of determination to set up this drive…. a drive where we will distribute 100 ‘Potted Plants’ (yes, Free!) at INOX, Pune. So if you would like to be one of the lucky ones, catch us LIVE on our endeavour to help the ‘titli‘ survive.
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