Mandatory Back from Copenhagen post

January 10, 2010

About 50 people have already asked me about my trip to Copenhagen and I have yet to give them a proper answer. I merely say something to the tone of “Hmm it was pretty cold” or “We didn’t really get that great a deal, I am sure you can read all about it in the [...]

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Yes men: New age Corporate/political Pranksters

December 27, 2009

A week before going to Copenhagen I had come across a rather intriguing news item which reported that 2 high level executives of Coca Cola held a press conference condemning their employers’ sponsorship of Hopenhagen (Hopenhagen was a festival/campaign held alongside the COP15 by the UN and included concerts, green exhibits and other niceties).
Check out [...]

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Winter reading list

December 25, 2009

I am back home from a fruitful trip to Copenhagen (or Hopenhagen or Flopenhagen; depending on your convenience). I didn’t get as close to the action as I would have liked to (accreditation issues) but still managed to meet some pretty interesting people and generate some food for thought.
It also means that I have tons [...]

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Community based power generation: Could thinking small be the next big thing?

December 13, 2009

Image: Attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barefootcollege/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Originally published at Project Survival Media day before yesterday
There has been a lot of discussion about the magnitude of the fund that will be set aside for the developing countries to cope up with climate change. Bangladesh has already made it clear that they deserve 15% of whatever the [...]

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How many more COPs to go…

December 13, 2009

Well this is the Climate Change version of a popular joke. Foudn it online somewhere.
Youth reporters asked Daniel Kammen (he’s the lead author of the IPCC Policy report on Renewable Energy) how any more COPs were required to get the right deal to which he replies

One, this one! If you think that on average it [...]

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Updates from my side

December 7, 2009

So here’s what’s been happening from my side.
I have started working with an exciting organisation which aims to create a legion of changemakers.
I have started blogging for one of the maverick blogs out there, writing on development through enterprise
And this is by far the most exciting news; I shall be going to Copenhagen to attend [...]

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Give us more toilets!

December 7, 2009

Image courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoftheref/ / CC BY-ND 2.0
Written a couple of days after the World Toilet Day, however this remained in the draft for a while, so without further delay, publishing it now
If you had been to the Chowpatty beach in Mumbai on 19th November, you would have found a group of people squatting. In fact [...]

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Climate change through analogies

December 3, 2009

This is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill. On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can’t say let’s reduce slavery, let’s find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%.
Says James Hansen, the leading climate change expert and [...]

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Mandatory CAT post

November 30, 2009

It’s that time of the year, however this time around it’s gotten a whole lot messier.
My batchmates who are giving CAT this year are going ballistic saying “Humare hi batch ko bali ka bakra bana kar rakha hai”  We’re the scapegoats over and over again referring to instances in the past such as the change [...]

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Climate change will make the poor poorer

November 18, 2009

[Image courtesy Really Natural]
With the COP15 approaching soon and the world chattering about whether a binding agreement will be signed, I have been thinking about the impact this will have on the developing nations. To start off to understand what is going to be discussed at Copenhagen here’s a brilliant post by my friend Abhishek [...]

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