Eco friendly resort - Bangalore

Sitting on 4.8 hectares of land, the resort was constructed of bricks made with mud from the building site. The layout of the building allows natural light to filter through, and strategically placed windows create airy and cool spaces, hence the resort did away with air-conditioning.
The Village generates 80% of its electricity through solar panels, a windmill and biogas plant. Sixty percent of its water is harvested from rain and stored in underground tanks or tapped from bore wells. With its zero-waste policy, all food and animal wastes are converted into methane gas and electricity at the biogas plant. Slurry from the biogas plant is used as fertiliser for the resort’s organic farm. Reed waterbeds recycle grey water from sinks and showers for gardening. “Black” water from the toilets is fed into leach pits and later used as manure.
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Our Native Village takes you back to those golden years, when life was all about kite flying, top spinning battles, catapult fights, marbles, gilli danda and hop scotch. When scaling new heights meant how high you could climb the guava tree and innovation was all about stealing mangoes from your neighbour's tree under his nose! When a wedding in the family unleashed the artist in you and you carried out 'your experiments with mehendi'.
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Living "no net environmental impact" in NYC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7000991.stm -
"It is mid-afternoon in an airy, lower-Manhattan flat, on the ninth floor of a posh-looking building ...

This is the home of No-Impact Man, aka Colin Beavan, who describes himself on his blog ... turns off his power... and while living in NYC turns into a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears".
He has dragged his wife, Michelle, and young daughter Isabella, along for the ride.
"The concept is that we should have no net environmental impact, which is, of course, technically not feasible," says Colin. "So the idea is that we would reduce our negative impact and increase our positive impact."
Food is bought every other day from the nearby farmers' stopped using all carbon-producing transport, they now walk or cycleThey then shut down electricity in the flat - no more dishwasher, fridge or washing machineA solar panel on the roof provides power for a laptop and one light"This is the compost box, the worms take the food scraps and they turn it into compost," explains Colin.There are many places all over the world that don't use toilet paper ... because people wash, it is a lot more hygienic.For detergents, laundry, body soap and toothpaste, they use a combination of vegetable oil, baking soda, vinegar and borax.Their life is now centred around the kitchen table, as well as activities such as riding bikes together.

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/

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