Domain B: We are all aware of global warming; but fewer of us realise what exactly the notorious ‘carbon footprint’ implies. Prakash Nayak, chairman, IET Power Panelexplains, outlining activities which generate the biggest and smallest carbon footprints Most of us have heard of the ‘carbon footprint’; that notorious culprit responsible for the accumulation of greenhouse [...]
This report was written by Saurin Shah and Tejas Bhagwat of California State University, Sacramento. It focuses on their research into the feasibility of installing solar thermal systems along Californian freeways and highways to generate electricity for use in stoplights, tolls, and other features of the California highway system. read more Global Solar Thermal Energy [...]
GAIN: The Annual Meeting & Scientific Convening of the Global Adaptation Institute (GAIN) centered on one theme – the urgent need to adapt to the changing global climate requires pragmatic solutions with the private sector leading the effort. GAIN Founding CEO Dr. Juan Jose Daboub, former Managing Director at the World Bank, noted that even five years ago, [...]
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is among several civic bodies in the state inclined to build more multi-level parking facilities. A study by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says otherwise– that without a clear strategy, expensive parking structures cannot reduce chaos or demand for it in cities. The centre looked at [...]
Business Standard: It must reduce poverty and increase prosperity – all while leaving a smaller carbon footprint Asia-Pacific is large, diverse and growing fast. It contains more than half of humanity, and 30 per cent of the global land mass. It has made great progress in reducing poverty. Yet, with two-thirds of the world’s poor, [...]
With all the focus on the demise of Solyndra last year and the attempts by the mainstream media to portray the death of Concentrating Solar Power due to the decrease in price of Solar PV thanks to the increasing efficiencies of Chinese production lines, it seems that CSP has been quietly making steady progress across [...]
While there is marked improvement on the usage of renewable energy sources in Indian IT companies of late, when compared to global giants, like Google and HP, they still lag a long way behind in going 100 per cent green BANGALORE, INDIA: In February, Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard identified 21 global IT giants that meet [...]
NEW DELHI: Indus Towers made an announcement today that the company would provide high efficiency Solar LED Lighting Systems, to rural areas. Speaking of the company’s Green Vision, BS Shantharaju, CEO, Indus Towers said, “One of Indus’ core Values is Environment. We are committed to our values framework and have already reduced usage of 62 [...]
NEW DELHI: Smaller cities seem to have become prime target for drug trials. While pharma companies have claimed over the last few years that most of their drug trials were taking place in “cosmopolitan towns” which have a heterogeneous population, comprising various ethnic groups (a major requirement for the all important phase-III clinical trials), the [...]
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