Solid waste management refers to the collecting, treating, and disposing of solid material that is discarded or is no longer useful. Solid waste management is an important aspect of urban area management. Improper disposal of municipal solid waste can create unsanitary conditions, which can lead to environmental pollution and the outbreak of vector-borne disease. The task […]
Generally, the green building is considered to be an environmental component, as the green building materials are manufactured from environmentally friendly materials, which are then used to make an eco-construction subject to an eco-design. It provides a healthy habitat while ensuring conservation of natural resources. During their lifecycle, the green buildings minimize the use of […]
Green innovation is becoming increasingly important for companies and whole societies, and the research in this field has essentially increased in recent years. It ensures both environmental sustainability and economical profitability. The task of this project is to encourage student and academics towards Green innovations across various ways like organizing workshops, exhibitions, and competitions, and […]
The Green Hub of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is organizing a series of virtual sessions on the environment friendly practices that will be implemented for the faculty in the near future. The first session of this virtual session series on “Changing the University towards a Green culture / හරිත සරසවි සංස්කෘතියක් කරා” […]
It has become imperative for policy makers to take more seriously the value assumptions and conflicts connected to environmental issues or environmental philosophy. This presentation will emphasize that environmental problems have ethical dimensions – it will determine the practical relevance of ethical theories for environmental policy making and management. The fundamental question will then […]
Topic: Dharma and Environmental Ethics: From the Buddha and Mahavira to Gandhi Time: May 20, 2021 09:00 AM Asia/Colombo Join Zoom Meeting https://learn.zoom.us/j/64862739659?pwd=aTl3Z3lEOHlJUjRRUCtrbERHajIydz09 Meeting ID: 648 6273 9659 Passcode: Hj%y0u$b
There is a class of human interactions with the environment that are, intuitively, morally evaluable but that are hard to criticize on the basis of their implications for sentient creatures. Demolishing landscape features, transforming ecosystems, or manipulating the genomes of organisms need not cause harm to any sentient organism but still seem problematic in some […]
තිරසාර අපද්රව්ය කළමනාකරණය: කසළ වලට වටිනාකමක් දෙමු යන මාතෘකාව යටතේ වන විද්වත් දේශනය මානවශාස්ත්ර හා සමාජීයවිද්යා පීඨයේ, හරිත කවය (ඝන අපද්රව්ය කළමනාකරණ ව්යාපෘතිය) මගින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලදුව 2021 ජුනි මස 25 වන දින පැවැත්වේ. මෙම දේශනය ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ, තාක්ෂණ පීඨයේ, ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ කථිකාචාර්ය, ආචාර්ය රන්ධිකා ජයසිංහ මහත්මිය විසින් සිදු කිරීමට නියමිතය. Topic: තිරසාර අපද්රව්ය කළමනාකරණය: කසළ වලට වටිනාකමක් දෙමු […]
The Green Hub of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura is organizing its second awareness program through a webinar to inculcate green culture in our university. The webinar will be held online on the 5th August 2021 at 10:00 AM with the participation of the keynote speaker Senior Professor Hemanthi Ranasinghe […]
Prof. Ananda Singh from Nalanda University, India will present a talk under the title of Water: Ecological Paradigms in Buddhism dated 19th of August , 2021 at 11. 30 am. We cordially invite you to join a webinar hosted by the project on Environmental Ethics and Wellbeing- Green Hub, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, […]
A workshop organized by the Green Hub of the FHSS and Vidumini- Skills Development Endeavour of the the External Degree and Extension Course Unit of the USJ on "Practicing Environmental Compassion" (පරිසරය වෙනුවෙන් ඔබගේ වගකීම) will be held on 31st January 2022 from 6.00 pm onwards with the participation of the resource person Snr. Prof. […]
The second session of the Online Workshop Series “Practicing Environmental Compassion” will be held on 21st February 2022 from 6.00 pm onwards. Topic: “Practicing Environmental Compassion” Workshop – Session 02 (තිරසරබව පිළිබඳ දැනුම සහ තිරසර හැසිරීම අතර පරතරය පියවීම) Time: Feb 21, 2022 06:00 PM Colombo Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98291076689?pwd=R0x3UGJ3NUE2YzJYYUZOVmtLbjloUT09Meeting ID: 982 9107 6689 Passcode: 886409