Energy
Sustainable, equitable energy production and access including decentralized renewables and efficiency
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Sustainable, equitable energy production and access including decentralized renewables and efficiency
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This section highlights initiatives that explore and encourage alternatives to the current centralized, environmentally damaging and unsustainable sources of energy, such as decentralized renewable sources. It also includes attempts at ensuring equitable access to ecologically sustainable energy, optimizing production and distribution, improving efficiency, and regulating demand (e.g. for luxury consumption).
IPCC author Aditi Mukherji on energy transition in agriculture and water security
Mukherji discusses the low emission pathways in the water-energy-food nexus, the importance of matching the right crops to the right regions and the need for context-specific understanding of groundwater use.
This Unique Mud Hotel Harvests Rain, Has No ACs & Runs on the Sun
"In the future, even if the building is being demolished, I wanted to ensure that the materials would become one with the earth again,” says Lokesh, Founder of Hotel Sunyata
Statement to Bharat Jodo Yatra
On the need for innovative, fundamental alternatives to currently dominant economic and political system.
Parisar Founder and Trustee Sujit Patwardhan passes away
Mr. Patwardhan was one of the first to provide a vision of sustainable transport for the city based on walking, cycling and public transport.
What if we designed homes to stay cool?
Ways in which residential buildings can be made cooler – a set of techniques called ‘passive design’ because they do not require the expending of energy for cooling.
Fazilka Ecocab: Changing the face of cycle rickshaw
In the age of climate action, cycle rickshaws are truly ecological mode of mobility and have potential to create meaningful, green livelihoods in cities and towns.
कारपेक्षा बसचा वापर केला तर प्रदूषण १५ पट कमी (in Marathi)
महाराष्ट्र सरकारने पंधराव्या वित्त आयोगाच्या अहवालातील, हवेची गुणवत्ता सुधारण्यासाठीच्या एकूण तरतुदीपैकी ८० टक्के निधी ई-बस सेवेसाठी वापरण्याचा प्रस्ताव ठेवला आहे, हे स्वागतार्ह आहे.
Ranchi shows how India’s biggest cycling lessons lie in its smaller cities
Ranchi has taken critical and innovative steps that can be adopted locally by the bigger cities that are looking at turning to cycling for transport.
देशज् तकनीक से बना मिट्टी का घर (in Hindi)
स्थानीय मिट्टी, पानी और लकड़ी से बना घर बहुत उपयोगी है। इससे सैकड़ों बेघर लोगों के मकान का सपना साकार हो सकता है।