A few individuals and organizations are trying to improve our environment in small and big ways. And this weekly newsletter is a collection of items on the environment that I found intriguing, funny, happy or sad. Please go ahead, browse, comment, criticize but please don't un-subscribe!What will surprise you, as it did to me, was the surfeit of environment sensitive products being introduced in India and globally. Read on for some examples: The innovation award this week goes to an MIT startup that converts car exhaust to ink (who uses ink these days?). Lucknow's all-woman mosque (they exist!) decided to go completely solar deserves a big thumbs up. Felt good to know that serious R&D does occur in Indian companies. Mahindra and Lithium Urban plans to build a fleet of 1,000 electric vehicles designed for corporate India. I do however prefer Panasonic's new AC that comes with an air purifier at no extra cost. Asian Paints announced a new anti-pollution paint - the chemicals in Royal Atmos brand gobble up some pollutants and smell nice...well... OK! Meanwhile state and local governments in India are bent upon vacuuming the streets and also the air in the vein hope that that will reduce pollution. You have to read it to believe the utter stupidity of it. Mr. Rajeev Bajaj meanwhile is angry at his peers for slowing down introduction of clean vehicles. The government is unable to fight off the lobbies and the court is getting into the space of pollution measurement. And finally, the city of London has decided to impose a pollution tax on vehicles entering the city. In the UK it seems government makes environment policy not the judiciary. Is that why it is so much cleaner?Till next week, namaskaar!- Laveesh
Improving Environment - Issue #2
Improving Environment - Issue #2
Improving Environment - Issue #2
A few individuals and organizations are trying to improve our environment in small and big ways. And this weekly newsletter is a collection of items on the environment that I found intriguing, funny, happy or sad. Please go ahead, browse, comment, criticize but please don't un-subscribe!What will surprise you, as it did to me, was the surfeit of environment sensitive products being introduced in India and globally. Read on for some examples: The innovation award this week goes to an MIT startup that converts car exhaust to ink (who uses ink these days?). Lucknow's all-woman mosque (they exist!) decided to go completely solar deserves a big thumbs up. Felt good to know that serious R&D does occur in Indian companies. Mahindra and Lithium Urban plans to build a fleet of 1,000 electric vehicles designed for corporate India. I do however prefer Panasonic's new AC that comes with an air purifier at no extra cost. Asian Paints announced a new anti-pollution paint - the chemicals in Royal Atmos brand gobble up some pollutants and smell nice...well... OK! Meanwhile state and local governments in India are bent upon vacuuming the streets and also the air in the vein hope that that will reduce pollution. You have to read it to believe the utter stupidity of it. Mr. Rajeev Bajaj meanwhile is angry at his peers for slowing down introduction of clean vehicles. The government is unable to fight off the lobbies and the court is getting into the space of pollution measurement. And finally, the city of London has decided to impose a pollution tax on vehicles entering the city. In the UK it seems government makes environment policy not the judiciary. Is that why it is so much cleaner?Till next week, namaskaar!- Laveesh
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