As Ganesh Chaturthi gets over, these Mumbai volunteers are cleaning up beaches by collecting broken Ganesh idols
Ganesh Chaturthi is a ten-day long Hindu festival which celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesh. The festival begins with people welcoming Ganesh idols into their homes and ends with the idols getting immersed in a nearby water body. As the festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm especially in Mumbai, innumerable idols end up getting immersed in the sea. Although several people have shifted to using idols made...
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The chef who served over 3 million meals in Puerto Rico is again feeding people affected by Hurricane Florence
When Puerto Rico was battered by Hurricane Maria, celebrity chef José Andrés and his team of volunteers took it upon themselves to feed the survivors. It is reported that Andrés and his army of 25,000 volunteers, including members of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, served over 3 million meals in Puerto Rico over a period of 11 months. Now as Hurricane Florence has hit the Carolinas, Andrés and his team of cooks...
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One of the world’s biggest power plant developers is giving up on coal
As the world is slowly but surely transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy, Japanese energy company Marubeni – one of world’s biggest power plant developers – also announced that it will not build any more coal-powered plants. Instead, the company plans to double the sustainable energy capacity of its net power supply from 10% to 20% by 2023. According to Japanese...
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