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Low Carbon Cement – contributing to the growth of emerging economies

The construction sector in India is one of the largest emitters of CO2 in the atmosphere, accounting for about 22% of the total annual emission, with the largest contribution coming from brick and cement production. This is due to the sheer volume of material and fuel consumption in the production …

An Outsider, brought Inside

Like the feelings we get while exploring a new city, internships require a bit of adjusting to the way things are done in an organisation. Fortunately for me, I happened to start this journey as a visiting Queen Elizabeth Scholar and intern for Development Alternatives (DA) in the weeks leading …

Managing our Natural Resources for the Benefit of All

To achieve a sustainable future, the world clearly has two priorities that must come before all others. The first is to ensure that all citizens have access to the means of satisfying their basic needs. The second is to evolve practices that bring the environmental resource base on which their …

Managing our Resources in a Sustainable Way

Natural resource management is the way we deal with managing the resources that we have while taking care of the people and the planet. The resources we have are finite and cannot be generated overnight. Every year we extract 55 billion tons of bio-mass, fossil energy, metal and minerals from …

Recycling towards a Sustainable Future

Food waste is a major worldwide problem. 1.3 billion tonnes of all the edible food produced worldwide is wasted or lost each year. That is 1/3 rd of the food produced annually. Not all food can be eaten. There will always be peels of vegetables and fruits and bones from …

People’s Agenda for Uttar Pradesh

With a string of assembly elections scheduled throughout 2017, Indian politics is once again seeing a juggling of ideas, with every policy action bearing significant political and public significance. Social equity and environmental sustainability issues in particularly gained a lot of credence in the agenda of our political parties lately. …