Read an article in the Economic Times where the author has essentially said that Locavorism (the habit of practising home-grown / local grown food) is a fad that deserves to be dismissed.
I think not, and I left a response at the site which I am reproducing here as well.
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A whole lot of numbers and data [...]

Pre-Bid Meeting with Prospective Bidders for selection of Solar PV & Solar Thermal Projects under JNNSM
28th August 2010
Details discussed at the pre-bid meeting between NVVN and prospective bidders for the grid connected (5MW ) solar PV power plants and Solar thermal plants
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NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (A wholly-owned subsidiary of NTPC) Welcomes & appreciates [...]

Global private equity firm General Atlantic, along with a clutch of other investors like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, has invested $425 million (Rs nearly Rs 2,000 crore) in Asian Genco (AGPL), which has investments in Indian power generation assets. This is said to be the largest equity transaction in the [...]

A slew of articles on how India is playing catch-up to China for securing energy supplies got me thinking ( see http://bit.ly/dkGodA and http://bit.ly/cphlRj ). And the thought was proceeded by some amount of research on the overall Indian strategy for ensuring energy supplies, primarily fossil energy supplies.
The total primary energy supply in [...]

I was on a hunt on an assignment that required researching on the renewable energy investment trends in India. While doing that, I came across a number of interesting pieces of information and insights. I am sharing some of these with you:
Renewable Energy Investment Could Hit $200 Billion in 2010 – A [...]

I was reading a classic paper on disruptive business ideas from Clayton Christensen “Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation” ( http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3374.html ). A thought-provoking paper indeed.
The topic of disruptive business ideas has been hotly debated for the past few years, and deservedly so. Let’s look at some of [...]

I had the opportunity to be a speaker at the Renewable Energy Finance conference and seminar at Singapore a few months back. As many folks wanted me to post it as a blog (which I had earlier sent as a newsletter), here goes.
Originally I was asked to co-ordinate a workshop in which I would [...]

While I was at Singapore a few months back at the Renewable Energy Finance meet, Rex Reksniss of RECharge ( http://www.rechargenews.com/ ) asked me about trends in offshore wind exploitation in India. I told him I did not expect anything to happen in offshore wind in India over the next few years, but [...]

Ethanol price fixed at Rs 27 per litre for blended fuel – Ethanol manufacturers have welcomed the Empowered Group of Ministers’ (EGoM’s) decision to fix a price of Rs 27 per litre for ethanol that will be blended with petrol. The price, however, has been fixed for only six months as against [...]

Two news items caught my attention, both related to “mandating” renewable sources of energy.
Like most who populate the libertarian society we live in, I am no lover of “dictates”; but I guess dictates aren’t exactly bad in circumstances that, well, deserve dictates.
The first mandate was about the West Bengal pollution board [...]