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Kalam for evolving energy utilisation norms for industriesBy : Sustainability ..., Nov 25, 2012
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Sunday stressed the need for evolving energy utilisation norms for different industries like Cement, Steel, Urea and Textile on per capita basis. He suggested that an ‘Idea bank’ be created to which employees can provide innovative... Read more.. |
Sustainability and Challenges to its Adoption By : Amit Patel, Nov 23, 2012
An organization’s commitment towards EHS&S (Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability) involves managing the responsibility towards stakeholders of their businesses by commitment to employee health & safety, compliance to government regulations, following good... Read more.. |
Kitchen wastes cook hot meals for patientsBy : Sustainability ..., Nov 23, 2012
Waste not, want not is Tata Motors Hospital's new motto. The private heal hub in Telco, Jamshedpur, which has been catering to curative needs of 500,000 people in and around the steel city for more than four decades, has now become the first healthcare... Read more.. |
MEET UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA'S NEXT DISTRIBUTED SOLAR HOTBEDBy : Sustainability ..., Nov 20, 2012
Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. The state is quickly becoming a hotbed for distributed solar... Read more.. |
IT as an enabling tool for Business Sustainability By : Suparna Shankar..., Nov 16, 2012
It does not matter how big or small Indian organizations are, they must learn from the recent power grid failure. The recent power grid failure in North India exposed the precarious demand-supply imbalance in power and vulnerability of a grid with complex inter-... Read more.. Subject Tags: Disaster , Environment , Health , Labor , Resource Efficiency , Social Issues , Technology |
Off-Grid Solar Thermal Technologies: Solving India’s Energy Crisis By : Ashok Paranjape, Nov 15, 2012
The Earth receives more than enough energy from the sun in an hour to supply the world’s energy requirements for the whole year. Unfortunately we harness only a tiny portion of the available solar energy and the world still primarily relies on power plants that burn fossil... Read more.. |
Look for the label: Catalyzing Sustainable Consumer Behaviour By : Seth Petchers, Nov 6, 2012
I’ve sat down at a Mumbai café to write a piece on labels and sustainable consumer behaviour. I should have done this several days ago and now the deadline I’ve been asked to meet is tomorrow. But there was Lakme Fashion Week, where my NGO Shop for Change Fair Trade... Read more.. |
Need to balance growth and sustainability, says RameshBy : Sustainability ..., Oct 19, 2012
India needs to be obsessed with high economic growth but should also try to marry it with sustainable development, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said here Thursday. "India needs to be obsessed with high economic growth as we have to address the issue of... Read more.. Subject Tags: Labor , Technology |
Climate change: EU rebrands green energy campaignBy : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2012
The EU has launched a campaign aimed at showing how low-carbon solutions can improve quality of life. The European Commission believes that policies to cut greenhouse gases will only work if individuals share the vision of... Read more.. |
Standard Chartered picks up stake in wind farmBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 8, 2012
Standard Chartered Bank, which is targeting improvements in energy and resource efficiency in its buildings, has taken a stake in a wind farm to source green energy for an office in Chennai. It has taken a 26 per cent stake in Green Infra to source over 1.5 million... Read more.. |