Tag: India - Page 8
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House With Balls: Louis Kahn Meets Paul Rudolph via Matharoo Associates
image credit Matharoo Architects Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan of Architizer calls Matharoo Associates House with Balls "a veritable children's treasury of the weirdest, coolest architectural photography we've seen in a while (cattle, camels, fish, lights
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India Will Build Asia's First Commercial Tidal Power Project
Another step forward for tidal power (it's a long, long road, yes...): London-based Atlantis Resources has announced that it will be building a 50 MW tidal power project off the coast of India, in Gujarat's Gulf of
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IndiGo Air Greens Fleet with Airbus "Neo" Jets
An Indian low-cost airline, IndiGo, has been the first buyer of 150 Airbus A320neo fuel-efficient jets, not only expanding its currently modest
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Conservationists Want Biodiversity, Poor Want Biomass: How Best To Protect Forests?
There's a new conservation approach being tested as an alternative to failed earlier efforts to preserve remnant natural forests (which continued to end up as fuel).
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Two Intrepid Cyclists Embark on a Silk Road Adventure With an Environmental Twist
Traders, soldiers, and pilgrims alike plied the Silk Road for almost 3,000 years, traversing empires as they rose and fell, and creating a literary and historical legacy that has inspired countless explorers
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Assam Tea Taste Being Altered by Climate Change - Crop Yields Dropping, Too
Oh no! If you're a tea lover like this TreeHugger then some reporting from The Guardian comes as doubly dire news: Apparently climate change is both reducing crop yields of India's Assam tea and changing its
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Taj Mahal Threatened by Pollution
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India is one of the world's great sights, but it is in danger of being irreparably damaged by air and water pollution.
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GM Cotton Fails - Insect Pests Thriving on Indian Plants When They Should Be Dead
An article in the latest issue of the journal Current Science raises serious questions about the long-term viability of genetically-modified Bt cotton to actually do what it's intended to do, increase pest resistance.
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India's National Solar Mission, 20 GW of Anti-Poor & Anti-Democratic Policy Implementation?
photo: technicolorcavalry/Creative Commons India's National Solar Mission is certainly impressive in ambition: Over one gigawatt installed by 2013 and over 20 GW installed over about the next decade. So what's not to like about it? If you listen the
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"Operation Monkey" Aims to Kill Marauding Primates
They're a roving band of macaques who've made a habit of treating crops in northern India as their own private buffet, making more than a few enemies in the process. Now, a militia of fed-up farmers has been formed to put an end
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India Climate Tribunal Gives Voice to People Affected by Climate Change, Demands Action from Governments
Ask Ajantha about the effects of climate change on her village in southern India and she can give you numbers—estimates of how far the shoreline has moved inland
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Convicted Former Congressman Bob Ney Turns to the Dalai Lama for Sanity
The Jack Abramoff scandal -- when American lobbyist Jack Abramoff was convicted for defrauding American Indian tribes and corrupting public officials -- became the symbol of everything our government shouldn't be. It represented
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The Stitching Studio: Beautiful Products With Flawless Fabrics, Helping Refugee Women
Helping refugees from hotspots like Sudan, Bhutan and Iraq that are based in the US with limited language skills and no work is the goal of soon to be launched project The Stitching Studio.
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30 Ways In 30 Days to Combat Climate Change - UNEP Program Highlights What We Need More Of
With COP16 kicking off in Cancún, Mexico at the end of the month, UNEP is hoping to get people jazzed up about all the different ways of combatting climate change--considering, that all signs point to little progress on the political front this year,
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More Nations Pricing Biodiversity: India & Norway Will Publish Natural Wealth Account Data
Slowly, the notion that all those ecosystem services like mangroves protecting coastal towns from hurricanes, rainforests helping bring more rain, and trees scrubbing away air pollution, are actually worth something
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Colgate Accused of Biopiracy of Traditional Indian Toothpaste Recipe
It's the battle of the toothpaste titans: In the red corner we have Colgate Palmolive, the the world's largest producer of toothpaste, who have taken out a patent for an Indian herbal toothpaste. In the blue corner we
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"Clean, Green" TATA Tower is a Bleak Vision of the Future, Dominated by Cars
I have seen the future over at Inhabitat and it scares the shit out of me. It's the proposed TATA tower in Mumbai, a solar and wind powered algae farm that happens to be offices, 930 apartments and parking for 4500 alternate-fuelled little nanos that
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Vedanta Resources' Orissa Bauxite Refinery Expansion Blocked by Indian Government
Two months after the Indian government stopped plans by UK-based Vedanta Resources to put a bauxite mine on a mountain held sacred by two indigenous tribal groups in Orissa, on the
