| Affordable Solar Home Systems |
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| Around 46% of households in India do not have mains electricity, and for many others the supply is unreliable. The use of photovoltaic (PV) solar-home-systems (SHS) can provide reliable power for lighting and low-power appliances, which brings great practical benefits. Smoky, dangerous kerosene ligh Read more... |
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| Beauty of the Beast |
| Photograph: Submerged rice fields after cyclone Aila The impact of Cyclone Aila, which hit in May 2009, was much greater than just the number of people it killed - 149 in India and 179 in neighbouring Bangladesh. In West Bengal's alone, an estimated 100,000 people wer Read more... |
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| Aakash Ganga |
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| Video: Rainwater Harvesting in a remote village in Rajasthan Short video aired by Shivam Private Ltd. on the domestic rainwater harvesting, Rajasthan, India. Aakash Ganga, River from Sky, won the World Bank's Development Marketplace Award for Sustainability and Innovati Read more... |
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| Global Carbon Budgets |
| Conference on Global Carbon Budgets - taking equity in climate change forward. 28 June 2010, Mumbai The conference is intended to discuss the question of equity - a fundamenta Read more... |
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| Kites tap wind energy |
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| Video: Kites for power
Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts of clean, renewable energy. Inventor Saul Griffith looks for elegant ways to make real things, from Read more... |
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| Time lapse proof of climate change |
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| Video: TED video of the Extrerme Ice Survey Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change. Ja Read more... |
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| Ingenuous water harvesting |
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| The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today -- and are often superior to mod Read more... |
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| How we wrecked the ocean |
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| In this bracing TED talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case. A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of Read more... |
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| Hidden hotbeds of innovation |
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| Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of innovation Anil Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world's unsung inventors -- indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could change many people's lives. He shows how the Honey Bee Network helps them build the Read more... |
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| Sun powered wings |
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| An experimental solar-powered plane took its first test flight in Switzerland to determine if it can stay in the air for 24 hours.
An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from Read more... |
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| A Darker Shade of Green |
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| International organisation REDD has a darker side to it than what most people know. Under the forest protection flag the organisation sets out to use natural capital more for its benefit than actual protection. Locals, indigenous tribes and farmers are the most affected in this process. In Read more... |
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| In Good Company |
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| The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) launched a film 'In Good Company' in 2009 profiling corporate leadership on climate change in India at the World Business Summit on Sustainable Development in Copenhagen. With India set to become one of the world’s top three emitters of greenhouse gases by Read more... |
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