For Goddess’ sake; someone stop this bloody massacre!
— Shashwat DC Every five years, a macabre and gruesome ritual takes place in the in the Bariyapur village in Nepal. In the name of the local goddess, Gadhimai, there…
Are we Indians learning the lessons nature is teaching us?
— A ‘Spirit of the Forest’ So the writing on the wall has become clearer. The calamity of Jammu & Kashmir follows the Uttarakhand calamity the very following year. The…
“Usage of solar water heaters is win-win for all the stakeholders involved”
With a market size of nearly Rs. 500 Crores and growing at a clip of approximately 10 % p.a., the solar water heater pot is boiling even as it is being watched. It…
How do you like your Apple(s); Red or Green?
— Pratima H Immortality becomes you, gasps Aro at Bella when she turns into one of his own ilk. She responds with a look that re-affirms the vital difference between…
Akshaya Patra: Feeding the future of a nation
Out of the 8 MDG goals that had been agreed upon, India has performed exceedingly well on just one, namely, achieve universal primary education. In fact, on this one parameter,…
Lessons on fund-raising from the Ice Bucket Challenge
— Pratima H Even before some celebrities were gutsy enough to dodge the bucket and drought-suffering people in Henan China or California picked up empty buckets to mock the charity-pail we…
Mike Barry: Sustainable growth needs to be built into the very heart of a biz model
Launched in 2007, Marks & Spencer’s (M&S) Plan A seemed like yet another one of those initiatives that are designed to generate more news and positive good feel, than actual…
How green was the Union Budget 2014?
There were a lot of expectations. The government was poignantly desired to find new props to strategically support the growth of solar manufacturing, whip up more allocations to the MNRE…
Charting the course from Triple Bottom line to Tomorrow’s Bottom line
To describe the achievements of John Elkington in the sphere of sustainability is almost a task of impossibility. He was one of the early movers in the space, the sort…
Sir David King: India is poised for a low carbon energy future
From a political perspective, Sir David King has played an enormous role in shaping the sustainability and climate change discussion in the UK and elsewhere. Especially, when he was the…
The ephemeral goal of saving the eternal Ganga
— Keshav Chaturvedi On June 8, this year, according to Hindu calendar (lunar calendar) the devotees will celebrate Ganga Dussehra – a festival that marks the descent of Ganga from…
Divest from fossil fuels
— Claus Andersen The estimated reserves of oil, gas and coal underground will, if extracted and burned, release 3,700-7,100 Gigatons CO2 (billion tons). However, only 550-1,270 Gigatons CO2 can be…
Sustainable energy security: India’s quixotic ambition and simple ways to manage it
— Keshav Chaturvedi Last year (2013), India’s petroleum minister M Veerappan Moily presented a grand vision for the country’s energy security. The peg of the entire plan was to achieve…
Would you be ‘Turned On’ for Earth Hour?
Pratima H MARCH 29, starting 8.30 evening local time, it would go for an hour. If you care to enjoy the starlit sky and get a valid excuse to escape…
Passive smoking of a new kind
Pratima H Ridiculous as it seemed to read a tweet some days back that inhaling air in Beijing is apparently equal to smoking 21 cigarettes a day, the joke boomeranged…
A new spot in Marine Trash
WITH efforts swinging between helplessness and hope, the search for the missing plane incidentally makes us spot a not-so-elusive sight in case we paid notice. The director of marine debris…
Save, Watt by Watt
In today’s age of rising pollution and GHG emissions, energy conservation has become a necessity. It means reducing energy usage by using less of an energy service. Energy conservation differs from energy-efficiency,…
Data centre and desktop IT renewal not constrained by wallets
Datacenter Transformation (19 per cent) and Desktop Virtualisation (19 per cent) – are coming up as significant trends as seen by CIOs when it comes to IT trends that will…
Khadi: From Sovereignty to Sustainability
For more than sixty years, khadi has been linked with India’s fight for freedom, but today it is perceived as one of the major agents in our fight against global warming and climate change. However, designers do not just see the garment as being merely eco-friendly but luxurious—defining it as “haute couture”.