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).
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।
Water-powered generators bring electricity to Nagaland
An initiative to electrify villages in remote areas of Nagaland with water-powered generators has improved livelihoods and resilience to climate change
How He Built a Sustainable Home
He has set up horticulture, solar power units, composting systems and rainwater harvesting in his home, influencing 4,000 people to go green.
A village is turning cow dung to electricity
Biogas from cow dung is locally converted into electricity, saving on power bills, preventing pollution of ponds and providing organic manure and clean electricity.
Turning obstacle into opportunity in Tamil Nadu
Varadharajapuram village, which currently powers only its street lights, will soon save nearly Rs.1 lakh in electricity bills.
Engineer-Turned-Farmer Harnesses Wind, Solar Energy; 450 Entrepreneurs
... the winds were good between May and October, while in the remaining months the sunlight was strong,