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You Give Climate Change a Bad Name Jon Bon Jovi will play Live Earth concert in Mumbai		18 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 18 Sep 2008 After seven concerts on seven continents on 7/7/07, Live Earth has downsized (you may have noticed that 8/8/08 passed by with nary a warble). On Thursday, organizers Al Gore and Kevin Wall announced plans for a Dec. 7 Live Earth concert in Mumbai, India. The show will feature "some of the biggest artists from India to the U.S. and beyond," says Wall. Jon Bon Jovi and ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, India, music, news (all these topics)

Nice gigawatt if you can get it Low-carbon energy solutions in India may depend on Tata	Nathan Wyeth	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Amid analysis of the G8's latest climate pronouncement, the announcement of India's first national climate action plan received less attention than it otherwise might have. Even in the Indian media, the plan was also overshadowed by the release of a McKinsey & Co. report that projects massive power demand growth in the country -- 100 gigawatts more demand in the next 10 years than previously estimated. Yet the very same day, the government's Investment Commission c ...
Topics: business, coal, economy, energy, India (all these topics)

Random and wiggy video of the day	David Roberts	16 Jul 2008	Gristmill

Topics: China, education, India, innovation, population, progress, video (all these topics)

Where in the World? Brazilians and Indians are the greenest, says survey		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:29 PM on 08 May 2008 Brazilians and Indians are the most eco-friendly folks in the world, and Canadians and Americans are the least, according to a new survey done by the National Geographic Society. Consumers in 14 countries, representing more than half of the world's population and about three-quarters of its energy use, were ranked on their sustainability in the areas of housing, transportation, food, and co ...
Topics: Brazil, Canada, China, consumerism, green living, India, news, United States (all these topics)

Better Ungulate Than Never Indian camels celebrate high oil prices		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:22 AM on 06 May 2008 Rising oil prices have many Homo sapiens in a tizzy, but at least one species is celebrating high fuel costs: the camel. Finding it spendy to fuel their tractors, farmers in India are turning to ungulate power. "It's excellent for the camel population if the price of oil continues to go up because demand for camels will also go up," says Ilse K�hler-Rollefson of the League for Pastoral ...
Topics: agriculture, India, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

House of Cads Bhopal activists detained after protest at Prime Minister's house		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 7:57 AM on 06 May 2008 Activists and victims of the world's worst industrial accident in Bhopal, India, in 1984 were detained by police this week after protesting in front of the Indian Prime Minister's house. The Bhopal protesters, including many children, have been in Delhi for over a month waiting for an audience with the PM after walking there from Bhopal, 500 miles away. "Today, the Bhopal gas vi ...
Topics: India, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Getting Hard to Carrion Wild Asian vultures going the way of the dodo		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:24 PM on 30 Apr 2008 Wild Asian vultures are likely going to the way of the dodo, a new study says. The white-backed vulture population has plunged by nearly 99.9 percent in India since 1992, and two other vulture species have seen a drop of 97 percent, say researchers publishing in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Researchers blame diclofenac, a drug given to livestock and ingested by the birds ...
Topics: endangered species, health, India, news, scientific research, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable	JMG	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
'It's a crime against humanity that food should be diverted to biofuels.' -- Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's finance minister (via)
Topics: biofuels, energy, food, India, quotables (all these topics)

Having naan of it India's 4,000 MW coal plant is a bad answer to electricity woes	Nathan Wyeth	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A few more thoughts on the 4,000 MW coal plant in India recently approved for international aid financing, which David and Joe have noted. I think this deserves attention because it's at the center of the biggest climate question out there: how to meet tens of thousands of megawatt hours of unmet and projected power demand in India and China without huge coal plants like this Tata Mundra 'Ultra-Mega' plant. It's not simple. But following the logic for this project invol ...
Topics: business, coal, economy, energy, India (all these topics)

Is the World Bank coal-fused? Coal still has no place in clean development	Joseph Romm	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
You knew it had to happen: the World Bank now has the same climate sensibility as ... the Kansas House. Scientist Jim Hansen, on the other hand, has requested a meeting with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, arguing for a moratorium on coal plants until carbon capture and storage technology is available. Even Wall Street looks on coal skeptically. Last Friday, the Kansas House failed to override Sebelius' veto of two new plants by only one vote. And the World Bank is con ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, insanity, politics, World Bank (all these topics)

Question	David Roberts	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
What does it say about humanity if, knowing what we know, we stand by and allow a 4,000 MW dirty coal plant get built?
Topics: coal, energy, India, World Bank (all these topics)

World's dumbest project: Tata Ultra Mega How a twisted definition is setting up a monumental folly in India	Ted Nace	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Here is how the World Bank proposes to solve climate change: lend money to build a 4,000-megawatt coal plant in India that will emit 25.7 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. By way of comparison, that's half a million tons more than the worst carbon emitter in North America, the Scherer plant near Macon, Georgia. In a weird distortion of logic, Tata Ultra Mega is considered a Clean Development Mechanism by the organization that administers the Kyoto Protocol. This ...
Topics: coal, energy, India, World Bank (all these topics)

One hell of a company Monsanto uses child labor in its Indian cottonseed fields	Tom Philpott	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Photo: iStockphoto Monsanto dominates the global seed industry and churns out $1 billion a year in profit. Investors are so enamored of its market power and profitability that they've bid up its share price by nearly 1500 percent since 2004. So why does Monsanto rely on farms that use child labor to cultivate its genetically modified cotton seeds in India? From Forbes Magazine: Yothi Ramulla Naga is 4 feet tall. From sunup to sundown she is hunched ov ...
Topics: agriculture, business, health, India, toxics (all these topics)

Our Kind of Guy Engineer plans to sell compressed-air car in India within a year		13 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:44 PM on 13 Feb 2008 Could folks in India be driving a car that runs on compressed air within a year? French engineer Guy Negre says it will be so. Tata Motors has backed his invention: a five-seater called the OneCAT, which would produce no emissions and cost around $5,000. "The first buyers [of the car] will be people who care about the environment," says Negre, who hopes that investors arou ...
Topics: business, cars, India, news, placemaking (all these topics)

On the Ball: Delhi legs Outlook not good for air quality at Delhi-hosted games	Sarah K. Burkhalter	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Think the air quality at this summer's 2008 Beijing Olympics is going to be bad? When New Delhi hosts the 2010 Commonwealth Games, it'll probably be even worse.
Topics: air pollution, China, health, India, Olympics, sports (all these topics)

Cross pollination Israel trades irrigation technology for access to India's ag-gene bank	Tia Ghose	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Israel is seeking to invest in Indian agriculture, according to this article in the India Times. The two powers signed a bilateral agricultural agreement a couple years ago; in the pact, India agreed to trade information on "genetic resources" from their crops in exchange for Israel's dryland farming expertise. As part of the agreement, Israel would share its expertise on water recycling and irrigation. It would also help India "intensify" its agricu ...
Topics: agriculture, India, Israel (all these topics)

Tiny Tata Tata Motors unveils world's cheapest car in India		10 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:16 AM on 10 Jan 2008 Photo: TaTa Motors The world's cheapest car was unveiled in India today by Tata Motors, which hopes that its new $2,500 subcompact will help make car ownership a reality for tens of millions of people. The Tata Nano gets respectable gas mileage, up to 58.8 miles per gallon, and meets India's emissions standards, but its introduction was met by protests from greens fearful that more-accessible autos will ...
Topics: business, cars, India, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Masses Marketing Indian car company to sell world's cheapest car		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:58 AM on 02 Jan 2008 India-based Tata Motors plans to launch what it's billing as the world's cheapest car later this year, a five-seater selling for about $2,500. The roughly 58-miles-per-gallon "People's Car" hopes to lure less affluent folks in India and other developing countries who often rely on ultra-cheap two-wheeled motorbikes and scooters for transport. The car will be unveiled later this month at a ...
Topics: business, cars, India, news (all these topics)

Sari, No Can Do Energy efficiency a tough sell to small businesses in India		27 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:07 PM on 27 Dec 2007 India's 4.5 million small or medium businesses produce 70 percent of the country's industrial pollution, according to a World Bank study. But most of those small-scale entrepreneurs can't afford the upfront cost of energy-efficient equipment -- or aren't persuaded of its usefulness -- creating a barrier to India's attempts to curb emissions from its fast-growing economy. Many areas of th ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, energy efficiency, India, news (all these topics)

Elephants in the room Greenpeace India points out the obvious	Tom Athanasiou	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The taxi driver that took me from the Bali airport to my hotel in Nusa Dua, the secure 'green zone' where the climate negotiations are taking place, didn't speak much English. Just well enough to say, haltingly, that he was 'too stupid' to have a better job, he didn't drink, and he was very depressed because he was lonely, but too poor to get married. Oh, and that the Westin, where I was not staying, was the 'best' place. Very 'luxury.' Very 'Western.' Now, a ...
Topics: Bali 07, China, climate, India, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Response to Jeremy Carl, part three The question for China and India is not whether to make the transition away from coal, but how soon	David Roberts	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In part one I made the point that if China and India develop along the same path as the West, we're all doomed. This fact is becoming increasingly clear to everyone. One way or another, whoever foots the bill, they'll have to change, and that means shifting to a more expensive-in-the-short-term source of electricity, of which clean coal is but one example among many. In part two I acknowledged that there are powerful arguments -- mainly social and political rather th ...
Topics: China, climate, coal, energy, India (all these topics)

Response to Jeremy Carl, part one Developing nations will not remain immune to the need for sustainable development	David Roberts	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill
I want to thank Jeremy Carl of Stanford's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development for dropping by and making the case for coal -- or rather, the case for holding our nose, accepting that coal's growth is inevitable, and working to make it cleaner (Jeremy's posts are here and here). I hope the conversation will be ongoing. As I see it, the core case has still not been made. Lemme try to clarify what I see as The Coal Question and the range of answers on offer. ...
Topics: China, coal, energy, India (all these topics)

Consider Sidr Sidr, a massive tropical cyclone, is going to hit Bangladesh-Indian border within 24 hrs	James Dailey	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Over the past several days, I've monitored reports of Sidr, a Tropical Cyclone churning its way up the Bay of Bengal. The forecasting models are based almost entirely on satellite imagery, and earlier in the week the computer models were telling forecasters it would weaken as it headed north. It hasn't: THE CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR A LESS-PRONOUNCED WEAKENING PRIOR TO LANDFALL THAN THE PREVIOUS FORECAST DUE TO THIS ENHANCED UPPER LEVEL OUTFLOW. THE TRACK REASONING ...
Topics: Bangladesh, climate, India, severe weather (all these topics)

Brash Monkey Thousands of monkeys uprooted by sprawl move into New Delhi		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 14 Nov 2007 Last month, the deputy mayor of New Delhi fell from a terrace to his death while trying to fend off a gang of wild monkeys. This weekend, rampaging monkeys attacked up to 25 people in the Indian capital. While the scenes are tragic, it would be a stretch to call them unexpected: In the center of New Delhi, monkeys scamper through buildings, bathe in fountains, and frolic in parks and on gro ...
Topics: India, news, placemaking, sprawl, wildlife (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton on efficiency Bill Clinton calls for countries to follow Japan's lead	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton introduced the morning plenary today by, once again, honoring the companies and people who've committed to the Clinton Global Initiative to take steps to increase energy efficiency and decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. But he touted one dubious statistic: If China, India, and the United States were to become as efficient as Japan, that would decrease global greenhouse-gas output by 20 percent. That statistic is based on this study by the McKinsey Inst ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, China, climate, India, international politics, Japan, politics, United States (all these topics)

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