Prithvi Sustainability Innovation and Technology Fund, with a proposed corpus of $150 million, is the newest fund set to make India-centric investments in companies that provide solutions to address air, water and soil contamination. It is promoted by Shankar Rele, CEO of investment advisory ICEStartups.com, and Pramod Sheddy.Talking to VCCircle,...

ITC's Royal Gardenia hotel in Bengaluru practice eco-friendly luxury. Read more from here And while on sustainable hotels, here are some useful links on energy efficiency possibilities and potential in hotels, warehouses, airports, sports stadiums, hospitals and even prisons.

Almost a year after Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyderabad-based Selco for green-energy-from-garbage project, work has finally started on the plant that will generate 7.5 MW power daily.HMC has given the company a 10-acre plot at Sarenga, Sankrail, for the Rs 50 crore facility, said...

Thermax Ltd., an Indian power- equipment maker that has a marketing deal with General Electric Co., expects air and water treatment machinery sales to triple by 2016 as Asia’s second-biggest polluter curbs emissions.“Industrialization in India will be the growth driver,” M.S. Unnikrishnan, chief executive officer and managing director, said in...

Energy generation has emerged as the most sought-after investment destination in Uttar Pradesh, according to a senior state government official.Among those who have expressed specific interest are Adani Group for a 2,000-MW power plant in Sonbhadra district, KSK Energy for a 2,000-MW plant in Farrukhabad,, and Bhushan Steel for a...

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has been successful in reducing the carbon emission level of the city as a result of its initiatives to lower energy consumption. The civic body has been able to bring down its CO2 emission below the national level, said a survey carried out by ICLEI-South...

The Indian Agro Recycled Paper Mills Association (IARPMA), New Delhi, under the aegis of the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE), government of India, organized a workshop on biomethanation and application of new and renewable energy in pulp and paper mills.Speaking on the occasion, NP Singh, advisor to the...

The hot economies of China, India and Brazil will more than double their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions within a generation with major impacts on global energy markets and the global climate, unless energy efficiency efforts are successful, according to new research published Monday. But retrofits such as high...

About seven out of every 10 households in rural India have no access to electricity. In 2003, a five-year effort was launched to help the rural poor finance alternative energy sources such as solar panels for their homes. The project, a partnership between the UN Environment Programme and two of...

Solar Energy Centre is the institute established in India with a view to encourage research in the field of solar technology as a viable alternate energy system. It is located at the 19th milestone on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road in Haryana state of India, and is established on a gently sloping...