Solar lights to illuminate city streets
Mumbai Come march, Mumbai will have solar-powered streetlights. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has proposed to install solar panels on nearly 50,000 out of 1.25 lakh lampposts across the city.
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CNG crisis to be resolved by 2010?
LUCKNOW: The CNG crisis in the city might get a solution around 2010, when two major CNG stations, planned at Gomtinagar and Aashiana, get functional. The laying of pipelines for two stations has started.
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Anantapur to get solar city
Hyderabad, Nov. 9: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Monday said the government will set up Solar City, a cluster of farms to harvest solar power, at Kadiri in Anantapur district.
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LPG, natural gas supply through pipelines soon
March 29: A handful of apartment complexes have installed the reticulated system (in-built pipe lines for LPG distribution) in the city and in other major cities such as Hyderabad. As per the reticulated system, the LPG will be provided to individual households in an apartment complex.
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Poor response to energy workshop
A workshop by The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) on ''Development of Building Regulations and Guidelines to Achieve Energy Efficiency in Bangalore City'' elicited a poor response from Civic bodies in the City, with none of the invited chiefs of BBMP, BDA or BESCOM representing their organisations.
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Solar energy to satiate citys growing need for power
The UT Administration has adopted the theme, 'generating electricity from solar power', under the Solar City initiative, for which a proposal has been made before the Union government for its approval.
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Countrys first GPS-enabled streetlights
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: When a bright streetlight itself is a mirage on many of the city roads, the residents here might not dare to dream of immediate rectification of power failures.
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Energy and urban innovation
This report outlines the energy-related challenges that cities, particularly large and 'mega-cities', will face during the coming decades. It analyses the technical and policy actions that must be taken to meet these challenges and the role the energy industry and business can play in designing and implementing efficient solutions
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After Nano, what? (editorial)
India will choke unless it modernises its city transport systems, and you can't blame the Nano for this. Tata's Nano has set the dovecotes aflutter and reactions are flying in all directions. Some people have hailed it, rightly, as the advent of mobility in India's frozen countryside. Others, wrongly, have denounced it as a bad idea, fearing that these tiny beetles will overwhelm our cities and choke their already badly clogged arteries.
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The Mediterranean City - A Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, Los Angeles, CA, United States; June 25- 27, 2012
The Mediterranean City - A Conference on Climate Change Adaptation: A Conference on Climate Change Adaptation will initiate an ongoing collaboration of cities working together to share ideas, needs and
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Citizens for Better Public Transport in Hyderabad
It is a group of concerned citizens in Hyderabad fighting against the city’s planned elevated Metro rail project and have suggested alternatives such as bus rapid transit system that are a more cost effective
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Debasish Bhattacharya
Debasish Bhattacharya is a champion of the “save tram” movement in Calcutta and the tram crusaders, have organized campaigns along the tram tracks between the Maidan and Esplanade; trying to highlight
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Forum for a Better Hyderabad
Forum For A Better Hyderabad was formed under the banner of ‘Hyderabad Bachao’ (Save Hyderabad), when some of the non-government organizations and citizens, concerned about environmental and developmental
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Bhopal Gas Disaster
The Madhya Pradesh government wants to open the Union Carbide plant to the public. The principal secretary of the state claims this will dispel the “myth” about toxins left at the site. A recent study
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Pollution in Our Cities: Does Anyone Care?
Chennai does the unthinkable and crosses Delhi to become the most polluted city. With governments struggling to explain why we are breathing killer air, is pollution even a priority issue? We debate on
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The Big Picture: Pollution Alert
Delhi and Varanasi are among 14 Indian cities that figured in a list of 20 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM2.5 levels in 2016, data released by the WHO showed. The WHO data also said that
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Nature's revenge
There is increasing evidence that clearing of forests prompts the spread of new diseases.
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Waste wise
Safe disposal of hazardous hospital wastes were the topic of discussion at a meeting in Delhi
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On air
Angry residents of Delhi flooded the chief minister s office with phone calls to protest against the withdrawal of a ban on polluting vehicles
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Switchover jitters
HC order on stricter emission norms catches Kolkata off guard