Wastage of any kind is criminal, my mom used to say when we were kids. Especially with food it was her “mantra” with the added scenario of starving kids in Africa to make her point. Over the last decade I have become more aware of the size of the problem worldwide – especially wastage of [...]

At the Solar Power International North America’s largest Business to Business Solar Event, American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) a global power technologies company exhibited their SolarTie™ Grid Interconnection Solution for Photovoltaic power plants.

Today is Monday, the 18th of October 2010. Delegates from world over are in Nagoya, Japan for the 10th meeting (COP10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Their intention is to agree on a 20-point plan for the next decade following the comprehensive failure of any government to meet previous targets set out in 2002.

I read this interesting article in the Financial Times by Fiona Harvey titled “Bad for Biodiversity is Bad for Business”. It gave an interesting perspective to the argument in favor of development at any cost. United Nations has set aside this year as the International year for Biodiversity. The article says biodiversity is not an [...]

It is pretty amazing how fast time goes… It seems like it was only yesterday that we were cleaning up snow and planting annuals… Last week I walked into a store and felt like I was on fast forward!! They already had aisles and aisles of Christmas decor on display!! Every year around the first [...]

On the 4th of October 2010 the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United nations (FAO) released the Forest Resources Assessment 2010 at the start of the latest Biennial meeting of the FAO committee on forestry and World Forest Week.

Today is the Global work party, in 188 countries world over people are getting together to make  a difference, responding to Bill Mackibben’s call “Circle 10/10/10 on your calendar,” reads the invitation. “That’s the date.The place is wherever you live. And the point is to do something that will help deal with global warming in [...]

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has a working sustainability program in place and which keeps adding new green products to lessen its impact on the environment. In one of the updates we receive at the zoo about what was being done to lessen its Carbon foot print, a green product caught my eye – Ciralight’s Suntracker daylighting system – The speaker introduced it as “Skylights on Steroids!”

The 2010 Platts Global Energy Awards will be announced on the 2nd of December 2010 at Cipriani Wallstreet in New York City. This is the 12th year of energy awards from Platts

Read this article on College News titled “Dyson-Harrop satellites: The answer to the energy crisis?” On reading the entire article I understood that 2 Washington State University Scientists Brooks L. Harrop and Dirk Schulze-Makuch were proposing that a solar wind power satellite that could be an answer to the world’s energy crisis.