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Solar powered PV pump set to revolutionise agriculture in Bihar
Patna April 12, 2012: Access to energy for irrigation and agricultural activities is an important issue for the rural Bihar. Looking at the poor irrigation facilities due to unavailability of electric supply and availability of abundant sunshine in the state, Greenpeace today installed and demonstrated a low-cost solar pumping system at the native village Kalyan…
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Victory! Facebook ‘friends’ renewable energy
After 20 months of mobilising, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from…
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Thousands call for clean energy in Thailand
Our region, Southeast Asia, is home to strong grassroots environmental movements especially those opposing the spread of harmful coal and nuclear energy. In the past years we’ve seen how great…
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IT firms see opportunity in averting climate crisis
Google, Cisco and HP are some of the best-known brands in our updated Cool IT leaderboard. This year saw these companies and other top information technology (IT) firms side with…
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Technology needs a green vision
I recently bought a Smartphone and was thinking of how these new-era communication devices have helped us keep a track of information on our fingertips. Being an environmentalist, I was…
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Notes from the Solar Generation Diaries
DHARAMSALA, India — On 19th April 2004, a group of seventeen people from Greenpeace Germany, Switzerland and India embarked on a journey to Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, to participate in the first ‘Solar Generation’ project in India. Together with youngsters from the Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV), Greenpeace installed a 2KW solar generator to provide electricity to…