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I had been wanting to read Jigar Shah's book Creating Climate Wealth for a while now. Jigar Shah is the founder of SunEdison, which pioneered a different business model for the adoption of solar and was instrumental in starting off the rooftop solar revolution in the United States. Jigar Shah...

We get a number of visitors to Suseum, the museum we had launched with the theme of sustainability. A large number of visitors are school children. Recently, we had a bunch of kids to Susuem from an interesting school - Al Qamar academy. The children from the Al Qamar Academy,...

A zero energy building from BEDZED - Beddington Zero Energy Development   Can you believe that green building materials could be a 10 lac crore opportunity? Read on... Depending on who you ask, green buildings in India will be an opportunity worth anywhere between Rs 1 lac crores (a shade...

  Here's a sector that should make entrepreneurs drool. A sector that rarely gets highlighted in the press. To a large extent, visible only to the folks who operate in the sector. But worth almost a trillion dollars globally. Yes, you heard me right. A TRILLION DOLLARS. That would be...

I had, in a post, written about an innovative lighting solutions company called Skyshade that uses direct sunlight to provide sustainable lighting solutions. I had also written another post on the enormous business potential green buildings present. While solutions such as Skyshade are indeed pioneering ones, they are hardly alone...

A recent article in Business Line about its product brought back to my memory Skyshade, an interesting Hyderabad-based company. Skyshade provides sustainable lighting solutions using the simplest route possible - by using sunlight as, well, sunlight! You might say, "But what's the big deal? I can open my windows and...

Four large transactions in wind energy happened in 2013, according to a report complied by Mercom Capital Group. A quick summary of the four Nagarjuna Agrichem, an Indian agrochemicals maker, sold off its entire wind power business for Rs 30 crore as part of its strategy to consolidate on core...

In a positive boost to the Indian wind sector, Tata Power is looking at adding up to 200 MW of wind power every year, either through organic growth or through acquisitions  - though I have a feeling that the latter would constitute a larger share of the growth trend, as...

Most discussions and news when it comes to renewable energy is about renewable power - from solar, wind, biomass etc. Some of these, solar especially, could indeed reach a tipping point in terms of adoption worldwide. But there is an elephant in the room that few notice. There is another...

I have been watching the bioplastics and biopolymers market with great interest last few years. And I am sure I am not alone. Plastics has been the favourite whipping-boy of every environmentalist and tree-hugger. But dig a bit deeper, and you will see that plastics (or something that can substitute...