It will be no surprise if I tell you that Chennai Metrowater's phones never stop ringing - mainly from complaints. One key problem and complaint domain is of course the overflowing of sewage - which remind all of us that, in spite of protestations that we are actually a developing...

I have been writing about the fact that tens of thousands of Indian villages are not connected to the grid. (here and here) It was hence of interest to me when I came across data on how many villages had been electrified Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana ( (RGGYY in...

The Bangalore civic administration has promised to rid the city from thousands of tonnes of overflowing garbage by Monday but doubts persist as its hunt for land to dump it has not made much headway. Bangalore generates around 5,000 tonnes of garbage daily, and there is little space left in...

Is the Pune model of solid waste management more sustainable than the one in Varanasi? A report by German scholars Judith Wolf and Fabian Schroth on 'Tracing back the choice: Implementation of primary collection of municipal solid waste in two Indian cities' states the Pune model is more sustainable that...

In an encouraging sign for the country's sustainable business entrepreneurs, a recent report has estimated that the organic food market in India is growing at an encouraging 20% CAGR. Yes Bank recently released a report 'Indian Organic Foods Market'. According to this report, the organic food market in India (including...

Read an interesting ad from Cairn ONGC about how their oil recovery efforts are benefitting the country. All right it is PR, and well, it is not even renewable energy, but all the same, I thought it would be useful to put the numbers down. Let's say it is more...

Chennai is not exactly known for its green-ness (see here, here, here and here to see how Chennai has not made the cut) EAI, India’s leading renewable energy research and business support firm, is located in Chennai. So what better way to explore how cities could be made greener and...

India rarely surprises me any more. On the one hand, the country could not care less about intolerably polluting its holiest river. And on the other, there are folks making eco-friendly Ganesha idols because they do not want to pollute the earth owing to any non-degradable materials in the idols....

At long last, I get to read something really interesting the Indian public sector is doing - sustainable treatment of human waste, and that too on our Indian Railways. We all know what happens to the millions of tons of human waste we generate while on trains, especially long distance...

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