Gobar Times Magazine (Environment for Kids Monthly) - Centre for Science and Environment

EDITORIAL

Hey folks,

Its time to rise and shine. A new decade has just begun. With new opportunities and new challenges ahead. To get a headstart check out our planner. Then just get going.

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COVER STORY

food India Eats

It’s a morning like any other. You wake up, wash up and then head towards the breakfast table.The food may be laid out for you already or you may have to rustle up a meal for yourself, but the fare is more or less uniform. Toasts with fruits or eggs. Prefer a desi (local) meal? Then its homemade roti and a bowl of cooked vegetable . Washed down with a glass of juice and tea or coffee...

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POSTER

be CLOCK -WISE!

The bell is trilling away not to alar m…but to alert. Wake up early this year. Its the start of a new Decade and there is so much to DO!

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OPEN FORUM

Cancun: A modest compromise?

Climate change, as a phenomenon, is alarming. That said, it is even more distressing to understand the political developments around it. Our overheating world and its economies—both developed and developing—have witnessed many global climate talks and treaties. As you...

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WEAVE WOES

Khadinomics $

Khadi. I am certain the image that this word conjures up in your mind is that of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The man who made it the ‘cloth of the nation’. The fabric that with time became the symbol and spirit of the Indian freedom movement...

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FUNDUNG

by Rustam vania

GREEEN SCHOOLS

The road side movers and shakers

We do not know who initially invented the wheel. But we do know about the constant struggle to make the roads on which they move more smooth, more safe. The most talked about initiative in recent times is the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), a public transportation system using buses to provide faster, more efficient service to passengers.

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