Madhukar Swayambhu
Memoirs of COP29: Baku, Azerbaijan
It has been an event of sorts, for some it was a beacon of hope, while for some it was an utter failure. While people and representatives are free to make their…
Derailed rural economy: Causes and remediation approaches – Indian context
Background India has always been a village-based economy, not because of the sheer size of the country and the huge number of villages, but because of the ancie…
From LICE to LiFE
Limping in Consuming Ecologies (LICE) to Lifestyle For Environment (LiFE).
Urban floods – are they man made?
Of late, we’ve experienced a global increase in frequencies of floods, be it flash flood or urban flooding or any other categories, the water spillover, the inc…
Recession-free revenue from restoration of waterbodies and wetlands
Waterbodies are unique in many ways, but from the carbon perspective, they are the only beings or structures on the planet which can do carbon emissions as well…
Solving the water crisis through Indian Vaidic Science
We all understand that the world is going through a global water crisis and everyone in his / her own capacity is trying to deal with it, because water is essen…
Economics in Ecology: Recession free business
Today, we are living in urban concrete jungles. 2008 was the first year in the modern history of the human race on the planet when the urban population exceeded…
Ecosystem service from waterbodies: Key to sustainable rejuvenation
Dirty, filthy, stinky, polluted, nasty, contaminated, smelly, foul-smelling, rotten – are some of the objectives that we often use for defining our waterbodies …
PVHI & making solar energy plants “sustainable”
We often see people using clean, green and renewable energy being used interchangeably by people in their everyday vocabulary. There are many similarities betwe…
Innovation v/s Invention – Soft Tech v/s Hard Tech
Of late we’ve seen the two terms “innovation” and “invention” being used interchangeably in the public vocabulary, but it is very important to understand the di…
Waste and wealth
Waste & Wealth – The Human Wisdom On this planet the biggest and the most sustainable human invention is the concept of Waste & Wealth, ever since the evolution…
Zero liquid discharge for steel industry
Steel plants use an enormous amounts of water for a wide range of industrial processes. All these processes are essential and integral part of steel manufacturi…
FOG in water
Usually when we say “FOG” people relate it to the lowest lying clouds in the winters or may be the condensed form of water vapours lying low to the surface of t…
Carbon economy & tax free cities
Today, our cities are full of problems and taxes. There is a property tax, municipal tax, sewer tax, water tax and what not. On the other hand, we have water sc…
Natural salination and desalination of water
We all know that 72% of the planet is covered with Water, still only 3% of this Water volume is sweet drinkable Water, rest all is saline or marine Water. Let’s…
Aquaculture business & water health
Across the globe, aquaculture is a BIG business. From farming aquatic animals like fishes, shrimps, prawns, crabs or turtles to aquatic plants and weeds like sp…
Mines, their pollution & resolution!
Mining industry is the core industry for supporting almost all the industries on the planet. Like railways, mining has been the root cause and the force behind …
ZLD – The law of nature!
With our consistent approach to make our life comfortable and effortless, we are adopting more and more unsustainable life practices with exorbitant use of mech…
Water disinfection technologies
Water quality and disinfection For the first 75 years of the 1900s, chemical clarification, granular media filtration, and chlorination were virtually the only …
Ayurvedic rejuvenation of water
The latest breakthrough in water treatment technology – “Ayurvedic Rejuvenation of Water” Ayurved is an ancient Vedic Science of medicine that is very ecologica…