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Sanitation No Longer a Dirty Word in India In India, many moons ago, nobody dared talk about toilets – a subject that was taboo, particularly at mealtime. Those who were employed to clean toilets were treated as “untouchables” and designated “human scavengers”, says Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, who has been named...

Everyday a huge amount of waste is generated from households, schools, hospitals and factories. The primary factors affecting waste quantity and quality are population, urbanisation, industrialisation and the changing lifestyle. Keeping environmental sustainability in mind, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in collaboration with Tetra Pak India Pvt. Ltd. has...

CSCI to reduce greenhouse emission by 4 mn tonnes Climate Servers Computing Initiative (CSCI) recently pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by four million ton over next three years which will be equivalent to planting of 4800 square kilometers of trees. “In next three years, the CSCI will cut greenhouse...

Oct 2008 The demand for clean cooking in India has prompted Fort Collins, Colo.-based Envirofit International to increase its 2009 production of biomass stoves. The ‘cookstoves’ reduce toxic emissions by as much as 80 percent, use 50 percent less fuel and reduce cooking cycle time by 40 percent, according to...

The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) has launched its India chapter with nine major organizations including Dell, Intel, HP, Google, WWF, TERI, CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, MAIT and NASSCOM. The aim is to drive energy efficient practices in every-day computing. “In next 3 years, the CSCI will...

Rashtrapati Bhavan celebrated the first anniversary of Roshini, an initiative undertaken by the President last year to make the President’s Estate green and energy-efficient. The initiative has also collaborated with several women’s self-help groups, allowing women to achieve financial independence, a subject close to President Pratibha Patil’s heart. The aim...

Lakshmi Energy and Foods, one of the largest private paddy processors in Punjab with a capacity of processing 1 million metric tonne of paddy per annum that diversified into biomass based power generation last year, plans to consolidate its energy business further. Another 15 MW was commissioned in February 2009....

GAC India has rolled out a series of green initiatives at its Kakinada offshore base with the objective of minimizing its environmental impact on the local area. The company has decided to convert all the heavy equipment at their offshore base to a superior biofuel, produced locally at the nearby...

Renewable energy player Astonfield will invest around $2 billion in India over the next five years to generate about 1,000 MW of power, most of it from solar sources. Astonfield Renewable Resources Limited is the Indian unit of the US-based infrastructure major Astonfield Management. “We are going to make an...

A nice article from Financial Times on how the idea for the Reva Electric car started and its journey from being a dream under an Australian desert sky to a commercial product that has sold over 3000 electric cars so far in India. Electric cars, by most accounts and opinions,...