Tag: India - Page 4
-
Best of Green Readers' Choice: Energy
Who are the best ambassadors for clean energy, energy industry innovators, activists, and more? Vote here.
-
Solar-Powered Micro Grids Change Lives of Indian Villagers
Entrepreneurs build solar micro grids in India to power lights and charge mobile phones, changing the face of energy in rural areas.
-
Architect Uses Ancient Techniques To Cool Modern Building in India
Architect Manit Rastogi uses stepwells and screens, technologies that are thousands of years old
-
Entire Village in India Relocates to Make Room For Tigers
It's no secret that most human-animal conflicts don't end well for wildlife -- but in a rare show of interspecies hospitality, an entire community in India has decided to relocate in order to make room for big cats in need of some extra space.
-
New Photograph Proves Wildlife Corridors Work For Bengal Tigers
For the very first time, an endangered Bengal tiger has been documented using an experimental wildlife corridor intended to connect two otherwise cut-off wildlife preserves in northern India.
-
Kaleidoscope Trashcan Creates Colorful Visuals From Trash
A prototype for a bin that would reward users with various visual patterns.
-
India Leads World In Green Power Growth For 2011
Solar power growth was particularly impressive, with investment increasing 700% over 2010 levels last year.
-
India Increases Solar Capacity 20-Fold, Yet Still Misses Its Targets!
It is testament to India's solar ambitions that it can hugely increase its capacity, and still fall short of its stated targets.
-
Alan Rabinowitz, Defender of the Big Cats (Podcast)
In a tireless career, Alan Rabinowitz has accomplished more than most people can even dream, establishing some of the largest animal reserves in the world from South America to Asia.
-
Are Skyscrapers Torpedoing the World's Economies?
A new report by Barclays Capital suggests a dark side to the building boom in places like China, India, and Turkey.
-
Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, Vestas Closing Wind Turbine Plants, More
Lots of energy news today; unfortunately, apart from the notion that peak oil is actually an opportunity for massive positive societal and environmental change which we'll get to in a few words, it's not really good news.
-
Podcars Proposed For Amritsar, India
Do podcars make sense in such a high density situation?
-
Recycled Play Structures Bring Joy to Schools in Rural India
Artist Shilpa Joglekar works with rural communities in India and Taiwan to create much-needed play structures out of natural and recycled materials.
-
Pay-As-You-Go Solar Power Brings Clean Electricity To Off-The-Grid India
Simpa Networks' customers pay a small percentage of the cost of their solar power systems up front, then purchase electricity in pre-paid increments like topping up a phone, working towards paying off the system.
-
Camera-Traps to Search for 'Extinct' Javan Tigers
rompted by new evidence of tigers there, the Meru Betiri National Park in East Java plans to install motion-sensing camera traps which might soon offer proof that, despite the finality of their conservation status, Javan tigers have indeed persevered.
-
Mumbai's Mangrove Clearing Ban Is Working - Could Be Saving City $52 Million Every Year
The Bombay High Court order a ban on clearing of mangrove forest six years ago. The move is clearly paying off with builders clearing coastal forest "largely stopped," according to campaigners.
-
Solar Power Becomes Cheaper Than Diesel Generators in India
Solar cost-competitiveness depends on where it is installed and what it competes against. In India, the diesel generator industry may have cause for alarm.
-
Indian State of Sikkim One-Third Of Way To Being Entirely Organic
Sikkim plans on having all its farms go organic by 2015. Since announcing the program a year ago, one-third of its agriculture has been certified organic.
