With the launch of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles (FAME-II) scheme in India, several cities are planning to introduce thousands of electric buses over the next few years. Several large and small Indian cities are planning to acquire electric buses through the FAME-II scheme, with … [continued]
Imagine Lagos, Nigeria, a city of 22 million. What was once a small coastal town just a few decades ago has exploded into a sprawling megacity spanning 452 square miles. Its rapid growth has stretched the city’s services impossibly thin: Less than 10 percent of people live in homes with sewer connections; less than 20 percent have access to tap water. Many houses are in slums and informal settlements at the city’s periphery. Now picture Lagos twice as big.
ThinkPhi, a cleantech start up in Mumbai, is offering a range of products that do double duty — they filter rainwater to make it drinkable and generate electricity at the same time.
This is a long time coming … and given that SunEdison has now crashed into bankruptcy and CEO Ahmad Chatila just resigned, it might have been more useful to publish earlier. Nonetheless, the points Pashupathy Gopalan, SunEdison’s President of Asia Pacific & Sub-Saharan, makes in the presentation are still relevant today. As you can see, this presentation … [continued]
Cities in India continue to take important initiatives to revamp the traditional polluting transportation systems. The latest initiative is to include electric buses in the public transportation fleet. Mumbai bus transportation authority BEST has announced plans to convert all CNG and diesel-powered buses into electric buses. The authority has secured … [continued]
The big news we’re hearing about Barack Obama this weekend has nothing to do with climate change: it’s that he’s cutting short his trip to India to pay final respects from the United States to Saudi Arabian King Abdullah. He’ll also meet with Salman, the late monarch’s brother and former … [continued]
A bio-remediation technique involving the use of ‘oil zapping’ bacteria has been employed to clean up the Mumbai shoreline affected by the oil spill that occurred earlier this month. [social_buttons] The oil spill happened when a merchant vessel M V Khalijia collided with a cargo ship MSC Chitra 10 km off … [continued]
