“Choices we have and choices we make”. Selection of sustainable materials for building envelope can be a challenging task in designing green buildings keeping in view broad spectrum of factors governing their use such as availability materials in local proximity, embodied energy, life cycle...

A five-year study (2001 to 2006) was undertaken in semiarid regions to identify the cropping systems which may be more remunerative, ecofriendly and sustainable over existing cropping systems and are farmer-friendly, so that they may be convinced to shift to the new cropping systems to maintain...