by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | Corporate Sustainability, Oil, Transportation
When I say “Cut down travel to reduce your Carbon footprint” many people look at me askance. It is as if I were trampling on their most fundamental right. Sure, you love to travel. It’s fun. And depriving you of travel is depriving you of something precious. Life...
by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | Energy Efficiency, Transportation
Having our car or motorbike tyres at the right point can make our rides more comfortable as well as ensure we are not wasting more fuel than is needed. The trick to ensure your tyre pressure is correct is to make it a routine to check the pressure – after all, all it...
by admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Climate Change, Transportation
And about bicycling! Bicycles. You know, those slim looking things having two wheels and pedals! I know, I know…the last time you had used them were when you were 12 years old. And since then, you have always felt that these were for the world’s...
by admin | Apr 30, 2016 | New Delhi, Policies and Regulations, Pollution, Society and Community, Transportation, Waste Management
Delhi’s Odd-Even Oddly Doesn’t Even Address the Root of the Problem, if Research Data are to be believed. I read an interesting take in Financial Express on the actual problems that result in Delhi’s air pollution (written by PP Sangal, a UN...
by admin | Feb 16, 2016 | Bio Energy, Emerging Cleantech Areas, Energy Efficiency, Green Buildings, Hydro Power, Innovations, LED, Solar Energy, Transportation, Waste Management, Water, Wind Energy
Renewable energy is growing at a tremendous pace in India. While some sectors are growing faster than others – solar and wind power are especially growing super fast – one can expect significant growth to happen in other sectors such as biomass energy,...
by admin | Aug 24, 2012 | Society and Community, Transportation, Waste to Energy
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,...
