This blog post is about what a software company with a conscience has managed to accomplish in the context of sustainability. Sustainability is not what comes to mind immediately when you think of software companies. The cynic that I (Narasimhan, not Raja who is also the co-author for this...

Sustainable Industrial & Commercial Heating Solutions - A Critical Pain Point No, this blog post is not about those hot problems. It is about problems companies, especially in the manufacturing sector, face for their heating requirements! With the prices of furnace oil, diesel and LPG increasing alarmingly in the past...

Organized by SEEM (Society of Energy Engineers and Managers) On 8 March, 2014; 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. At: INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (I) AUDITORIUM, Swami Sivanatha Salai, Chepauk, Chennai - 600005 Contact Mr. Ramrajeev, AMSET Energy [SEEM TN Chapter], Chennai 044 2829 5558 ; Cell: 97102 70918 Email: info@amsetenergy.in Target Participants Energy Managers and Auditors,...

Workshop on Research Opportunities in Emerging Areas of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras Research Park I thought this could be of interest to students and researchers, esp from in and around Chennai, who have an interest in pursuing careers or research in renewable energy Solarillion Foundation ( a non-profit research,...

I had been wanting to read Jigar Shah's book Creating Climate Wealth for a while now. Jigar Shah is the founder of SunEdison, which pioneered a different business model for the adoption of solar and was instrumental in starting off the rooftop solar revolution in the United States. Jigar Shah...

We get a number of visitors to Suseum, the museum we had launched with the theme of sustainability. A large number of visitors are school children. Recently, we had a bunch of kids to Susuem from an interesting school - Al Qamar academy. The children from the Al Qamar Academy,...

A zero energy building from BEDZED - Beddington Zero Energy Development   Can you believe that green building materials could be a 10 lac crore opportunity? Read on... Depending on who you ask, green buildings in India will be an opportunity worth anywhere between Rs 1 lac crores (a shade...

  Here's a sector that should make entrepreneurs drool. A sector that rarely gets highlighted in the press. To a large extent, visible only to the folks who operate in the sector. But worth almost a trillion dollars globally. Yes, you heard me right. A TRILLION DOLLARS. That would be...

I had, in a post, written about an innovative lighting solutions company called Skyshade that uses direct sunlight to provide sustainable lighting solutions. I had also written another post on the enormous business potential green buildings present. While solutions such as Skyshade are indeed pioneering ones, they are hardly alone...

A recent article in Business Line about its product brought back to my memory Skyshade, an interesting Hyderabad-based company. Skyshade provides sustainable lighting solutions using the simplest route possible - by using sunlight as, well, sunlight! You might say, "But what's the big deal? I can open my windows and...