About Greener Things
Greener Things: an initiative to develop a greener perspective to look at all kinds of things, a term broad enough to include each and every activity of every nation ranging from government actions to individual activities.
It is an initiative started by a
group of students of Gujarat National Law University. This is independent of
any sort of institutional attachments and wishes to develop an unbiased,
independent and strong environmental perspective!
About the Blog
The Greener Things Blog is one of
the many initiatives of the organisation through which it tries to develop an
interdisciplinary approach towards environmental protection thereby creating
awareness among people from all backgrounds, as we believe that protecting our
mother earth is our collective duty. Interaction between public policy and
sociology along with environmental policies is the special feature of their
blog.
Theme
As stated above, the broad theme of
their blog is an interdisciplinary environmental protection approach, however,
some of the suggestive sub-themes are:
- International politics and environmental
protection
- Human Psychology and environment degradation
- Religious beliefs and historical approach to
environmental protection
- Economics of environment protection
- All topics related to SDGs and MDGs
- Social inclusion and environmental safety
Note: This list is just suggestive
and not exhaustive.
Greener Things follow a peer review
process for the admission of the blogs, where in the process is done by their
internal editorial board. The identity of the editors is not disclosed to
prevent any sort of bias. The acceptance of the blog will be communicated
speedily enough within one week of submission.
How to Submit?
- Strict adherence to these guidelines by the
author is desirous.
- The language of the Blog shall be English.
- The length of essays can be 750-1000 words.
- Co-authorship up to a maximum of 2 authors is
allowed.
- While the blog doesn’t propose any specific
topic, the subject of the blog is broadly anything related to the
environment. However, an inter-disciplinary approach to environmental
issues would be favourably looked upon.
- Plagiarism would not be tolerated, with a
minimum level of 15% being permissible.
- No citations or endnotes or bibliography or
references. All relevant citations should be hyperlinked to the text.
- There should be a clear division between
Introduction, Body and Conclusion in the blog.
- It would be upon the discretion of the
editorial team at Greener Things to accept any submitted blog.
- All blogs to be submitted to greenerthings.gt[at]gmail.com.
The blog should be submitted in a .doc format along with a short bio of
the authors.
- The copyright of the blogs shall be vested with
the authors and only non-exclusive assignable copyright shall be assigned
to Greener Things.
- This means that the author can resubmit the
blog at any other place after its publication at the Greener Things Blog,
however with a grace citation or reference to the Greener Things Blog.
Submission of essays to this blog shall be deemed to be the assignment of
the copyright by the author in an aforementioned manner.
- All blogs that are published would be
publicised on their linkedin, Facebook and Instagram handles and if an
author does not wish the same should be indicated in the mail for
submission of blogs.
Formatting Guidelines
- Font: Garamond
- Size: Headings(14), Body(12)
- Justified text
- Headings in bold
Contact Information
E-mail ID: greenerthings.gt[at]gmail.com.
Please do pay attention to their
copyright policy for the blog.
Important Dates
They have rolling submissions with
a temporary submission deadline of 30th August 2020.
Contact Information
Gmail ID: greenerthings.gt[at]gmail.com
The website link of
the Greener Things blog is here.