Saving Mr. E!
Saving electricity is perhaps one of the best ways to reduce one’s carbon footprint. Specially in a country like ours, where although a fairly large percentage of residences still do not have electricity,…
Making wealth of waste
Poonam Kasturi, the Bangalore based entrepreneurr, started Daily Dump in 2006. Known as the ‘compostwali,’ she has managed to create wealth out of waste – literally. Poonam Kasturi is an industrial designer by…
Juan Enriquez wants to grow energy
Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter — and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he…
How to invest in green funds
Climate change and closely related issues such as growing water scarcity, diminishing natural resources and commodities have compelled governments and businesses to reevaluate present methods of production and consumption. It is clear that…
Green Investment
Green investments are traditional investments in the form of stocks, exchange-traded funds and mutual funds, in which the underlying businesses are involved in operations aimed at improving the environment. This can range from…
Green People
The International scientific community concurs that earth’s ecological situation is in a far more perilous state that had been previously thought. Burning of fossil fuels has altered the composition of the atmosphere, pushing…
Green Organizations
Environmental crisis confronting mankind is by far the most critical issue of the 21st century making climate change the world’s biggest priority. This phenomenon has spawned innumerable organisations across the globe, which spends…
Green Financing
Green Financing refers to environmentally-oriented financial products and services. Green car loans, energy efficiency mortgages, alternative energy venture capital, eco-savings deposits, and “green” credit Cards represent merely a handful of innovative, “green” financial…
Green Funds
All members of the human race – from the primitive tribal living in some shadowy Amazonian forest to the savvy Wall Street banker – have known for some time that all is not…
Vidya Balan: Being true to nature
We’re at a farm in Mandi village on the outskirts of Delhi. It’s 42 degrees Celsius and the sun is beating down on us, as if silently punishing us for our part in…




