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I read about how a local private school is working with elementary schools and the Nevada Discovery Museum to teach children as young as preschoolers about solar energy. The Aleph Academy, a private Jewish preschool, has used a grant from NV Energy and the Department of Energy to install a...

Those who have been following the textile industry will be aware of the closure of over 750 dyeing units in Tirupur owing to pollutants being discharged in their waste water. The Madras high court had ordered the closure of 752 dyeing units along Noyyal river some months back, based on...

All of us at EAI are pleased to know that Harish Hande of SELCO has won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award – considered Asia’s Nobel Prize. A fully deserved one. How many IIT-ians do we find coming back to India? How many among those few coming back actually taking up...

Harish Manwani’s AGM speech on how Unilever is looking at sustainable business – a useful read. An excellent analysis of sustainability by a global leader. “The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan has three big goals: To halve the environmental footprint of our products across the value chain, to source 100% of...

An item in The Economic Times (Jul 27 2011) caught my interest. This was about the fact that the private sector power generation firms were having a much higher success in meetings their capacity addition targets than have public sector firms. So what’s the big surprise, you might ask. Granted,...

Read an interesting article in the Business Line today on SAIL (Steel Authority of India Limited) exploring options to float joint ventures with “green” power producers to meet its renewable energy commitment. I guess you could replace the name SAIL with ONGC, BHEL, NTPC and more, and the news item...

iPLON GmbH, Germany, in association with Energy Alternatives India (EAI), conducted a two day training workshop on the 20th and 21st of July 21, 2011 at The Raintree Hotel, Chennai. The workshop titled “Solar Photovoltaic Systems – Design and Engineering” covered a wide range of topics related to Solar PV...

Agici Finance Business, an Italian pioneer active in research and consultancy in the energy business and Energy Alternatives India, the leader in consultancy in renewable energy in India, have signed a MoU to develop joint initiatives aimed at helping Italian businesses to seize the opportunities that the Indian market is...

No, the title has nothing to do with Sonia Gandhi.  It is literally a more electrifying connection that Italy is keen to have with India. I spent the last week in the pleasant city of Milano (Milan), the financial capital of Italy. I was there because the nice folks from...

It was a few weeks back that I met the young and cheerful Zulfiqar Varawalla of NanoJoshXXL at his office at Navi Mumbai. I had been working with my team on an assignment for one of my clients where my job was to find out some interesting cleantech products in...