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Review of Bill Gates’ book “How to avoid a climate disaster” Bill Gates and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have been doing remarkable work in healthcare, poverty eradication and education for 2 decades now. More recently, Gates has been focussing on clean energy and hashtag climatechange mitigation, through his Breakthrough...

 ITM Shaastra 2021 Tech & Innovation Fair Was a judge at this year’s tech & innovation contest of IIT Madras’ Shaastra (its annual college tech fair). Shows that you can fool even IIT-ians about your intelligence – and three years in a row, for which I had been a judge...

And we thought farmers could learn greentech from us! Showcased @ EAI INCLINE An inspiring story from The Better India on how a Telangana farmer Chintala Venkat Reddy has innovated a rice and wheat variety to get incorporated with vitamin D through natural processes. He won an international patent too...

15 cleantech startups awarded for unique tech & biz models Showcased @ EAI INCLINE This is from a year old news item, but it is unlikely you will complain about my reviewing it late, because there are some good cleantech startups here. In a bid to encourage startup companies in...

EU’s opens applications for €10 billion clean tech innovation fund – and so should India! EU has been at the forefront of sustainability actions – not just issued bold statements, also bold actions. Did you know that it has a Euro 1 TRILLION Green Recovery plan to align large scale...

MNRE allows installation of innovative solar pump technologies In test mode Showcased at EAI INCLINE Nice to see government executives willing to stick their necks out. In this case, it has been from MNRE, which has flexibly allowed innovators with unpatented solar pump technologies to participate in field trials organized...

IOC signs pact with Greenstat Norway for Hydrogen Center of Excellence Showcased at EAI INCLINE In the Union Budget for 2021-22, GoI pledged to focus on generating hydrogen from green power sources. Taking a cue from that thrust, this pact between IOC and Greenstat aims to develop a Centre of...

 Delhi discom wins award for grid-scale battery energy storage system Showcased at EAI INCLINE Storage is the Achilles Heel for building a sustainable energy sector. A decade ago, no one (not even Elon Musk) would have dared to put batteries to large-scale, utility level power storage. While Musk later on...

Schneider Electric + Plaksha Center for Clean Energy partnership for India decarbonization efforts Showcased at EAI INCLINE – https://bit.ly/3dQCnYa Until today I had not heard about Plaksha University, but perhaps I ought to have. Appears to be an interesting university in the making – “university for the future, being set...

 14 year old Indian teen puts solar on iron boxes Showcased at EAI INCLINE 14 year old VINISHA UMASHANKAR  (just how do you get those fandangles made on LinkedIn, btw?) from Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu appears to care a lot more about global warming than even really old men like me...