International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

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This paper is based on the education for sustainable consumption with regard to colleges/universities/schools and other educational institutions. The authors in this research paper have conducted a research in Awadhesh Pratap Singh University (Rewa), Nirma University (Ahmedabad), Oriental University (Indore), colleges affiliated to RGPV University (Bhopal) and DAV Public School (Burhar). In our study, we analyzed the eating habits and the everyday consumption of food products by students and staff of these educational institutions. We collected data on how cafeteria, canteens and mess serve their food to the students and staff, how much food gets consumed by the students and staffand what quantity of food goes to the dustbin as a waste. In this paper we formed a credential system, which we termed as “Sustainable Credibility Course” which schools, colleges and universities can follow in their curriculum without hurting the final results of students. This course will aim at inculcating sustainable consumption values in the campus as well as outside and the leftover food can be used to feed the people struck by hunger. The student’s or teacher’s profile to be made in the college/school would depend on how he or she has performed in that sustainable credibility course i.e. how many credits he/she has received in this course. The student/teacher or any other worker of that educational institution will, when he or she leaves that institution, get a certificate based on his or her performance in this course just like a character certificate is given to a student presently when he/she finishes his/her education from an institution. Our study aims at the measures to ensure how exactly sustainable consumption values can be achieved through this credit course; what role the administration of that institute will play in that process and how the eating areas of that institution will function; what will be the duties of the students.

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Bamboo is a very important forest product that is highly relevant as a livelihood option for forest-dependent people in India. This research paper will quantify the resource and make an objective assessment of bamboo, its contribution towards poverty alleviation and generating subsistence income for the rural poor. Employment generation from bamboo growing and its processing makes a significant contribution to people's incomes. The wide gap that exists between the demand and supply of bamboo owing to the growing National and International market identifies the huge opportunity available for development of bamboo resources both on public and private land and consequential improvement in the economic condition of the bamboo-dependent people. Use of Bamboo as resource can help the economy on many levels. On one hand it will create resource; also it will reduce the depletion of non-renewable resources.

It will contribute to Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Environment and Ecological Economics and Resource Economics.

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