the increased use of fertilizers and irrigation are known collectively as the Green Revolution‚ which provided the increase in production needed to make India self-sufficient in food grains‚ thus improving agriculture in India. Hybrid high-yielding wheat was first introduced to India in 1963 by Dr. Borlaug. Borlaug has been hailed as the Father of the Green Revolution but M.S. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India" The methods adopted included the use of high yielding
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Green Building Technology: Functions‚ Impacts‚ and Future Prospects Word Count (excluding references and footnotes): 2941 words Table of Contents 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………..Pg.2 2. Functions in Resource Conservation…………………………………...Pg.3 2.1 Background ……………………………………………………………..Pg.3 2.2 Heat Control……………………………………………………………..Pg.4 2.3 Emission Control………………………………………………………...Pg.5 3. Impacts…………………………………………………………………...Pg.7 3.1 Social Impacts…………………………………………………………
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BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA Green tea is one of the types of tea that is entirely made out of leaves. It is also very popular in ancient times and it was originated in Asia’s country‚ China. Nowadays‚ more and more people enjoy the tea across the world. According to recent research‚ people not only drinking green tea but they find it into many things like toiletries‚ ice-cream‚ food and many more. Why are there many people looking for it ?. This is because green tea has many benefits which make it a
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Final Paper: Cabrini Green Demolition In the Chicago area‚ there is a "ghetto" known to everyone as Cabrini Green. Cabrini Green is an area where drug dealers inhabit every street corner‚ gunshots ring through the night‚ and crimes are a daily occurrence. It is an area so dangerous that local police have attempted to make new laws for the area alone such as needing to live there to be there. The people of Cabrini Green have grown accustomed to this dangerous life‚ but still hope for better way
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Green Revolution refers to a series of research‚ development‚ and technology transfer initiatives‚ occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s‚ that increased agriculture production worldwide‚ particularly in the developing world‚ beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.[1] The initiatives‚ led byNorman Borlaug‚ the "Father of the Green Revolution" credited with saving over a billion people from starvation‚ involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains‚ expansion of irrigation
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For many corporations the green movement can translate directly into increased efficiency and therefore increased profits. Flextronics for example has found a way to refurbish their own products‚ Motorolla cell phones‚ to optimize resource use and profits. This comes after the realization that their competitors were using the Flextronic products and refurbishing them to compete against Flextronic and make a profit. Other companies such as HP and Xerox are going green in order to increase efficiency
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Ethnography on The Nazca Lines During our visit to Ica Peru in December 2012‚ my wife‚ her family and I took a trip to the Nazca Lines in Nazca Peru‚ I was pretty excited because I’ve seen them on the history Chanel a few years back and I told my wife that we had to go see them when we go to Peru. Then she surprised me. Not only was I going to but I was going to take a plane to see them. Now this was amazing‚ keep in mind I’m not sure what I was expecting when I would go up in the plane. But I
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English 110 November 3‚ 2011 Summary of the Novel‚ “The Green Mile” A summary of any novel by Stephen King has to include a small biography of the horror novelist‚ himself. Publishing this novel in 1996 as a serial novel‚ with the first edition actually coming out as one of six small paperbacks that were eventually made into one novel. Stephen King is well known for his horror novels‚ therefore‚ this summary of the novel “The Green Mile” shows this book set in the 1930’s and is a deviation
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The “Finish Line Hero” Noah Falck‚ a first year aerospace engineer and ROTC cadet at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo‚ works hard inside and outside the classroom. Not only has he maintained above a 3.3 GPA‚ but is also an active member on the ROTC Ranger Team and leads a Bible Study group in his dorm. Even with this full plate‚ he wakes up at 5am every morning to train for his true passion‚ running. As a freshman‚ Noah joined the cross-country team at Newark Memorial High School‚ which was just the
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University Faculty of Information Technology Green Computing in Kenya Thursday April 10th ‚ 2014 Abstract The main aim of this paper is to look at what green computing is‚ why we should care about it and why it is becoming such a force in today’s world. The paper aims to tackle the advantages of green computing not only to businesses but also to individuals as well in their day to day lives. This paper also aims to look at different green computing implementations in Kenya in order to
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