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Electric Vehicles: The Wise Person Knows Watt’s Up

This is going to be a blog post about electric vehicles. But more than anything, it’s a post that stems from the world of energy and the world of cars. Admittedly, both are complex worlds and anyone who works in the field of sustainability will acknowledge that both worlds are …

HOME COMPOSTER: A WAY FOR A CLEANER AND GREENER FUTURE

Development Alternatives (DA) in collaboration with the Delhi Government has piloted the initiative of ‘Decentralised Waste Management’ in E-block of Saraswati Vihar, Pitampura. The project is being supported by the Department of Environment, Government of National Capital Territory. Development Alternatives has built capacities of residents, implemented decentralised waste management practise …

Financing Sustainable Development

What Are We Paying For? 2015 promises to be a landmark year in the global dialogue on sustainability, as we anticipate the signing of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Forming the core of the Post-2015 Development Agenda or the post- MDG (Millennium Development Goals which end in 2015) era, the …

Housing for All in a Resource Constrained Landscape

Thousands of villagers migrate every day into the cities of the third world. Many, if not all, come there in search of jobs. Any community – big or small – where work and income are not largely bound to the land is a town or “city”. The lights of most …

Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary, Scientist and People’s President

What a fitting way to go! The manner, timing and place of the passing away of our late President, Dr Abdul Kalam was exactly as he would have wished it to be: talking with his last breath with young people, dreaming and exploring how they could create a better future …

What India’s Construction Sector Should Learn from Nepal Earthquake?

“When it comes to earthquakes, a magnitude 6.0 rumble in San Francisco may shake the same as a 6.0 in Delhi. But you are far more likely to die in India.” – Forbes India ranks a high 100 out of 172 most vulnerable countries at risk of natural disasters [1]. Population …