Category: Environment
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Neighbourhood Cleanup
Clean Coonoor is in the process of trying out neighbourhood cleanups in its bid to keep the township and its environs litter free. A neighbourhood cleanup is just what it sounds like: residents band together to clean up all or part of their neighbourhood. The neighbourhood chosen this time was a rather small one with…
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Once Upon A Time All Food Was Organic
This is no fairy tale but a fact. A fact that is either ignored conveniently as impracticable in today’s world with its ever growing population, or sneered at as an emerging fad. But we have now come a full circle. Driven by concerns about sustainability and toxin exposure, organic food is presently a growing market…
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World Environment Day 2024
The theme for World Environment Day 2024 is ‘Land restoration, desertification and drought resilience,’ a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world. Keeping in tune with this year’s theme, a re-wilding programme was undertaken by the Cantonment Board, Station Headquarters, Madras Regimental Centre, and other units of the Wellington…
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Time to Reflect
As of tomorrow half a decade would have rolled by since Clean Coonoor and its volunteers, officials, and the general public, joined hands to take upon themselves the mammoth task of cleaning the middle stream of the Coonoor River. It would not be an overstatement to say that the whole venture would have been impossible,…
