Energy

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).

Energy: Alternative Products

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Energy: Networks

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Energy: Tools

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Energy: Websites

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Energy: Books, Reports & Newsletters

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Energy: Visual & Audio

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A Glimpse of Barefoot College

A group of local village women attended the Barefoot College Parabolic Solar Cooker workshop, and then started a cooperative to cut, weld, build and use more of these themselves.

Using bio-fuel to run an irrigation pump for five acres

“If a farmer has two punnai trees on his land, he can reduce the diesel cost considerably. I run the motor for about five months using the oil during summer,” says a farmer who uses oil extracted from the seeds of that tree to run a diesel pump for irrigation in summer months.

Decentralised Water and Energy Conservation in Urban Setting

"We decided to live in a house that would have a minimal ecological footprint so as to limit the damage to the environment. So we designed a house that had waste treatment and recycling and recharge and energy saving properties...", says Rahul Banerjee