Behind the starry luminescence which Sahithi Pingali finds herself in today is a heart made of green gold. Her success can be attributed to her innate ability to amalgamate science, technology, civic concern and a collaborative mindset. Yet, it is apparent that all these are driven largely by her love for lakes
Sahithi Pingali, a grade 12 student from Inventure Academy, Bengaluru, won several awards at most competitions she entered in the last one year. The list is long. At The International Sustainable World Engineering Energy Environment Project) Olympiad held in Houston, (ISWEEEP) Texas, recently Sahithi Pingali won the Gold Medal for her research on ‘An Innovative Crowd sourcing Approach to Monitoring Freshwater Bodies’.
At the INTEL ISEF international finals, she won 3 special awards in addition to placing overall second in the category Earth and Environmental Sciences. ISEF is the world’s largest international high school STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) competition. Created and run by Society for Science & the Public (SSP), it has been honoring young researchers since 1950. Sponsored by Intel, ISEF this year brought together students from 78 countries.
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Where Wastepickers Become Entrepreneurs
Bengaluru’s Citizens have looked at waste pickers, popularly called rag pickers, with disdain. Even if some acknowledge their constribution to the city’s cleanliness they don’t think waste pickers have or need an identity of their own.
We Can Reverse Global Warming In 30 Years
Yes, says Paul Hawken, author of 'Drawdown - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming' if most of the 100 solutions suggested in the book are implemented by 2050. The good news is, most of the solutions already exist
Greater Malabar Initiative To Promote Local Innovation For Local Problems
Kappad, 12 kilometers from Kozhikode a quiet place that witnessed the historical event that changed the history of India forever - the place Vasco Da Gama landed in 1498.
Carbon Masters To Set Up First Bio-CNG Unit In Malur Soon
Carbon Masters, a Bangalore based energy start-up, has raised an undisclosed amount from Indian Angel Network and Sangam Ventures, a pure play clean tech venture fund.
Fish Food Using Plastic Waste
During her school, one day, Miranda Wang was distraught at seeing a huge landfill with plastic contributing to most of the urban waste.
Amazon Tower To Study Impact of Climate Change
The Amazon, a region nearly the size of the U.S., is by far the largest rainforest on earth. Biologists have warned for decades that its prodigious biodiversity was threatened by logging.
‘Environment' Missing from Budget and Economic Survey
It’s taken the sharp ears and eyes of senior staff at Centre for Science & Environment to notice that the word ‘environment’ was missing from this year’s Economic Survey as well as the 2017 Budget. What does one make of it? Does it mean this government is callous towards the environment or is it that other related words like renewable energy, climate change, sanitation, and cleaning rivers have replaced the mother word?
How Farm Taaza Is Revolutionizing Fruits & Vegetable Sourcing
The South Indian fruits and vegetable market size is more than $3 billion. Less than five percent is currently sourced by big retailers directly from farmers. The opportunity is immense. The next wave of sourcing will use advanced technology and analytics, says Kumar Ramachandran, CEO of GS Farm Taaza, a leader in the B2B sourcing segment
Lake Warrior - Sahithi Pingali
Behind the starry luminescence which Sahithi Pingali finds herself in today is a heart made of green gold. Her success can be attributed to her innate ability to amalgamate science, technology, civic concern and a collaborative mindset. Yet, it is apparent that all these are driven largely by her love for lakes
Lake Warrior - Arun Krishnamurthy
At 31, Arun Krishnamurthy has already quit a job at Google, set up Environmental Foundation of India (EFI), an NGO. In 10 years EFI has cleaned 83 lakes and the list of lakes to be cleaned is long
The Healthy Habit of Sauca
How cultivating cleanliness inside and out-can bring you peace of mind.
BELLANDUR LAKE FROTH - Debasish Ghosh
Bangalore, India, was once known for its interconnected lake systems, which provided a reliable water source. As the city grew, these lakes have encroached, and the water became polluted day by day. The largest, Bellandur Lake, now carry huge volumes of snowy froth, which block the adjacent canals.
ISL: Bengaluru beat Mohun Bagan
ATK Mohun Bagan welcome Bengaluru FC to the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata for a blockbuster encounter in the Indian Super League. The mariners come into the game with 27 points in 15 games and are placed fourth in the league. They have picked up eight wins while drawing three games and losing on four other occasions.
Riot erupts over delay in allowing bull run event
TRAFFIC on the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway came to a standstill for nearly four hours in Tamil Nadu on Thursday morning after a thousand people staged a road blockade that devolved into stone-pelting and rioting over an alleged delay in granting permission for a bull run event in the district.
K'taka revenue intelligence sleuths smash wildlife smuggling racket
THE Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Bengaluru, has busted an international wildlife syndicate which trafficked endangered wildlife species though mobile apps, in a massive operation codenamed 'Kalki'.
No new variants found in genomic testing
THE third genomic testing report released this week has shown no new variants of Covid-19 in the positive samples that were collected from across the city and the airport.
Are millets really the only grains you need?
While millets are great for you, blindly replacing the rice and wheat in your pantry with vast quantities of millets is inadvisable
'Leasing of retail space up 21% in 2022 across 8 cities'
Leasing of retail real estate space during last year rose 21 percent to 4.7 million square feet across eight major cities mainly on rising demand from Food and Beverage (F&B), fashion and apparel retailers, according to CBRE India.
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Big cities like Bengaluru are losing their soul. The priorities we chase are about brick, mortar, money, growth and what falls under the crass umbrella of the \"development\" word
rhythms of bengaluru
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