Some days the news flashes include stories like “Killer whale kills Trainer” or “Bear mauls owner” etc… and then we read it look at each other shake our heads and say “How could that happen?” Then it turns to “why would someone keep a Bear as a pet?” These questions seem to arise mostly when [...]

The future of Oral hygiene could be Solar! Imagine not having to squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste from the tube! Worrying about your spouse not closing it properly… Not having to write a note to pick up the right brand (with the wide variety out there finding the right paste is almost an [...]

I read a report about Indonesia’s Coral reefs dying at an alarmingly fast rate last week. The news report from The Guardian UK said that the coral which had survived the 2004 Tsunami and its aftermath whre dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded due to the dramatic rise in water temperature in [...]

I have been writing about tigers in a series of posts titled “The Disappearing Stripes in the Year of The Tiger. The previous 3 can be found at the following links: Part I – The Disappearing Stripes Part II – The Amur Tiger Part III – The Bengal Tiger This is the 4th part of [...]

I could start like any 12 step program and say “My name is Spisharam and I am a Chocoholic”. If you love chocolate you know what I am talking about, I can pretty much eat chocolate any time of the day and it does not matter what kind. If it looks like chocolate, smells like [...]

Imagine capturing power from thin air, seems unbelievable doesn’t it? Nikola Tesla dreamed of capturing and using electricity from air, even before that and after him for centuries man has wondered about lightning and how it is discharged in our atmosphere. Remember the experiment by Benjamin Franklin using the kite to figure out whether lightning [...]

What makes traveling around the countries or meeting people from across culture more interesting? If you ask me one of the main things of common interest is “Food”. We all have to eat to survive and good food is an upper like any other good thing! It is that interest which makes a good number [...]

Kyushu University professor Yuji Ohya has developed an ultra efficient wind turbine which is unlike anything we have seen before. At the Yokohoma Renewable Energy International Exhibition 2010, Professor Ohya and his team unveiled the Wind Lens, a honeycomb-like structure which supposedly triples the amount of wind energy that can be produced by off shore [...]

August 21st was EarthOvershoot Day! Wondering what that means? So did I. That is when I found this organization “Global Footprint network”. So what is the Global footprint? In articles about reducing consumption we have all come across the term Carbon Foot print; when that is taken to a global scale it becomes the Global footprint [...]

There are many new Alternative energy projects coming up all over the US, and the US still has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to alternative energy when compared to the developing economies China and India. China is the leader in investment in alternative energy programs world over. Under the EERE’s [...]