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Vehicle Sharing – Exploring the Market in India By : Sustainability ..., Nov 7, 2014
Vehicle sharing is the simplest, most cost effective intervention for addressing the urban mobility problems we are facing today. In the Indian economy, which faces rapid rates of urbanization, urban mobility problems will choke growth in multiple ways, including:... Read more.. Subject Tags: Business , Education , Health , India , Labor , Politics , Resource Efficiency , Social Issues , Technology |
Will Bangalore ever be garbage-free?By : Sustainability ..., May 28, 2014
It was not very long ago that Bangalore’s sobriquet i.e., ‘Garden City’ nearly came to be replaced with ‘Garbage City’ in the wake of villagers’ refusal to allow garbage trucks to dump the city’s refuse into the nearby landfills. Mounting garbage piles attracted... Read more.. |
Anna University sets up solar power plant to meet energy needsBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 20, 2013
Anna University in Chennai has set up a 3kw solar power plant on the campus to reduce dependence on non-renewable forms of energy. University vice-chancellor M Rajaram inaugurated the solar plant installed at the Centre for Nanoscience and Technology on the A C Tech... Read more.. |
Can India’s Agriculture Sector be Saved?By : Sustainability ..., Aug 15, 2013
Onions are front-page news these days across newspapers in Delhi. Onion prices, along with those of several other vegetables, have been steadily rising. There is almost a sense of déjà vu, as each year one or two vegetables become a cause célèbre for the middle class. What... Read more.. |
‘Commuters waste fuel worth Rs. 54 crore every year due to jams’By : Sustainability ..., Aug 6, 2013
As told by Chetan Agarwal, environmentalist and resident of Gurgaon, to HT. Tolls play an important role in financing highway projects but if traffic is beyond a certain level, then the externalities of toll plazas in terms of time wasted, fuel consumed and... Read more.. Subject Tags: Business , Disaster , Education , Health , Labor , Politics , Social Issues , Technology |
'Indigenous biofuel can help meet energy demand'By : Sustainability ..., Feb 18, 2013
A two-day training programme on 'Integrated Development of Tree Borne Oilseed in Wasteland/degraded land' started at Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology on Saturday. Several eminent agri-scientists and faculty members of the university took... Read more.. |
Suzlon Group Wins Wind Turbine Order From Orange Renewable PowerBy : Sustainability ..., Jan 31, 2013
Suzlon Energy Ltd. said its group bagged a 50.4 MW wind energy project contract from Orange Renewable Power. The project is scheduled for completion in FY 2012-13. As per the contract, Suzlon will supply 24 units of the S88 - 2.1 MW wind turbine generators... Read more.. Subject Tags: Education |
What is the Square Footage per Accredited Professional for your Green Building Rating System? By : Amresh Deshpande, Jun 4, 2012
In this three part series, the Energy Efficiency Influence Team at Schneider Electric India will discuss possible bottlenecks impacting the growth of the green building market in India. In the first part, we will introduce a new metric that we have developed– namely, square... Read more.. |
India’s first waste-to-energy plant generates heatBy : sustainabilityo..., May 23, 2011
India’s first waste-to-energy plant, touted as an answer to the waste and electricity woes of the capital, will start operations from July. But people living near the site are up in arms over the Rs.200 crore project’s high environmental and health costs - something the... Read more.. Subject Tags: Business , Education , energy , Health , Labor , Law , Politics , Social Issues , Technology |
RVCE students develop “Chimera”By : sustainabilityo..., May 23, 2011
A group of students from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, have indigenously developed a fuel (hybrid) system for the Reva electric car. The prototype of this hybrid electric car is names as “Chimera,” said a press release. The group has worked in conjunction with REVA... Read more.. |