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Press Release Seminar on Sustainable and Modern Methods in Agriculture The Institute of Simplified Hydroponics www.petbharoproject.co.in is a company based in Bangalore, Karnataka. This Institute has trained more than 500 students from all parts of India since Jan 2009 in the science of Soil-less cultivation/Hydroponics. The aim of this institute...

In Arunachal Pradesh, local community members have joined hands with WWF-India to usher in changes that would ensure sustainability for both nature and human beings. Remarkably, the pioneering effort – due to its sound fundamentals – could be replicated in other parts of North East India. In the western part...

This is an event planned to be held in Chennai, Mar 15-17, 2010 Check the event website for latest details – http://www.icesgbt10.org

India’s Car Rush – Are We Driving Towards a Sustainability Crash? India’s Tata Motors promises the first batch of customers will be able to buy the Nano, its small car, for not much more than $2,000. Nissan, with its partner motorcycle manufacturer Bajaj, may even beat that. In any case,...

A company in India has found an innovative solution to plastic garbage. Ahmed Khan’s company in Bangalore, is trying to use recycled plastic to solve two of India’s biggest problems – crumbling roads and overflowing landfills. So far, Mr. Khan’s company has built more than 745 miles of road using...

The interactive dustbin developed by the six IIT-Bombay students will not only approach people and tell them to put trash into it, but it is also programmed to say ‘thank you’ when they oblige. The device has three sensors programmed to detect the nearest person, align the wheels towards him/her...

Even though Rolls Royce cars are being sold in their dozens to Indian billionaires, the lack of science is causing the most sacred city in Hinduism, Varanasi, to become a failed sacred city. The BBC reports that there is so much sewage flowing into the Ganges that it’s hard for...

Steel Authority of India Limited’s Salem Steel Plant has won the prestigious National Sustainability Award for 2008 from the Indian Institute of Metals. Mr Sanak Misra president of IIM gave the award to Mr Pankaj Gautam ED of SSP in Kolkata recently.

He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers’, to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers. Over 70 percent of...

The cost of operating and building solar power plants has fallen this year, largely down to a big fall in the price of solar panels. According to New Energy Finance, the cost of electricity generated from solar energy is likely to fall by 50% during 2009 compared to the previous...