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Financing the Agriculture: Cornell - Tata to promote Indian minds


The endowment consists of $25 million to establish the Tata-Cornell Initiative in Agriculture and Nutrition, which will contribute to advances in nutrition and agriculture for India and $25 million for the Tata Scholarship Fund for students from India.


Building a sustainable future


"Some of the concepts of natural lighting and natural ventilation that were common practice at that time are coming back as sustainable solutions in new construction, so they had it right 100 years ago," said Len Sereda, director, Facilities and Operations, Sustainability, School of Energy & Environment.


Two planets for greed


'Humanity's current "ecological footprint"-or impact on the earth's services-exceeds the planet's regenerative capacity by about 30% and by the early 2030s we will need two planets to keep up with humanity's demand for goods and services' - World Wide Fund Nature Living Planet Report.