Trends: Industry predictions are that human society will move away from incandescent light bulbs to LED lamps in about a decade or two. People like smaller electricity bills. Environmentalists want less energy wastage as heat. Haitz's Law states that "every decade, the cost per lumen (unit of useful light emitted) falls by a factor of 10, and the [...]
The first step that the Energy Conscious people have to take, is to assess the effectiveness of energy saving devices and materials. What is embodied Energy? Wikipedia says: "Embodied Energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any goods or services, considered as if that energy was incorporated or 'embodied' in the product itself." [...]
Today we had a great opportunity to speak with a group of Senior Citizens from Dignity Foundation, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore, and demonstrate to them Composting at Home, Energy Conservation & Solar Power. Many of them were very happy to have found a sustainable Lifestyle store located very close to their homes. I found it be a [...]
Thermodynamics teaches us that energy is neither created nor destroyed, but it can be converted from one form to another. It also teaches us that whenever there is an energy conversion some energy is lost to the environment as heat. This increases the disorder or entropy in our universe. Life forms are highly ordered, low [...]
Energy from the sun is our Solar Capital. Energy we take from the earth (Oil, coal, wind, water etc...) we call the Earth Capital. If we wish to sustain the earth capital, we could try and use more of the solar Capital. The crisis of unsustainability refers to the problems caused by depletion of earth capital. [...]
Eco comes from the Greek word oikos meaning "house, dwelling place, habitation". The German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the word Okologie. Logia refers to "study of". In 1873, Haeckel used this word to refer to branch of science dealing with the relationship of living things to their environments. (Source: Online Etymology Dictionary) Harsha replaced "logy" referring to study with "Soch". "Soch" [...]
It's estimated that in India we have 330 million houses, out of which number of houses with proper roofs of size 100 to 300 sqft to accomadate 1-3KW solar systems will be around 150 million. If we consider that we can aggressively solarize 10% of these roofs by 1KW of solar system by 2022, then [...]
This place looks so pretty. If you are in the sahakarnagar area, near GKVK, walk in and take a look around.  It has a nice feel to it.
