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About a week back, I had gone to Coimbatore to present a brief lecture on green IT, at the VLB Janakiammal College of Engineering, on the outskirts of the city. The college itself is located in a pleasant setting, almost amid the hills, so I must say it was a...

Came across a news item in the Business Line that kind of woke me up to an important area of concern - losing productive soil to erosion. The news item says that "India is losing 5,334 millions tons of soil every year because of indiscreet and excess use of fertilizers,...

Here's a nice summary of DIREC. Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in collaboration with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India.. For those who missed the actual event, I'm sure this will be good stuff Link

Came across an interesting article in the Business Line newspaper (18 Nov 2010) that talked about India's sanitation woes. What really got me reading the article was the mention that a much larger percentage of Indians had mobile phones than those who had toilets. It struck me as an astonishing...

The third EAI Club meet was organized on the 21st of November 2010. It was held at the EAI office on Nungambakkam High Road. The meet was attended by an eclectic mix of experienced industrialists, energy consultants, energy auditors, aspiring entrepreneurs and other green enthusiasts. The vibrant mix of people...

It was a nice feeling for me to read earlier today an article by Sanjeev Chada, the CEO of PepsiCo India, on how Pepsi is using its deep knowledge in areas like nutrition science and irrigation techniques to strengthen the links between agriculture, environment and  nutrition. In India the company...

A few months back, I had written about the status of offshore wind in India ( see: ) where I had mentioned that very little work had taken place in this area, to the extent that we do not even know the exact potential for offshore wind in India....

IBM, which is at the forefront of the US electricity ‘smart-grid' project, is eyeing the Indian market. On the heels of piloting a grid technology with Shanghai Electric Power last week, IBM plans to offer solutions for the Indian grid managers. ( ) “IDOP, an online, real-time outage-planning tool, integrates...

The DIREC hardly got over and the next interesting trade fair with the green theme is in – The India International Trade Fair. This year, the India International Trade Fair (IITF) will showcase energy efficient technologies and green products. Prototypes of various technologies which use renewable sources of energy such...

Until a few months back, only those in the natural gas industry had heard about shale gas (more from  But now, it will be surprising if anyone in the energy industry and related domains had not heard about it. From some quarters, I hear that it is a bit...