Solar industry leaders welcome the guidelines for off-grid and roof-top solar applications, launched by Non-Renewable Resources minister Farooq Abdullah.
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Interior India is seeing a war being fought by big businesses with the help of small and marginal farmers for their share in the organic cotton market.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus pushes the envelop further to midwife the birth of two social investment funds and a social stock market to add more building blocks to an emerging global social business ecosystem.
Bucking the industry trend, women are writing the entrepreneurship code of the biotech sector in the country.
Two Indian companies Wipro and HCL have emerged amongst the top five greenest electronics companies in the world. While Wipro shares the top position with Nokia, HCL at third position is marginally behind Sony Ericsson, according to Greenpeaces just released report.
As good environmental practices become the cornerstone of doing business in the developed world, the Wal-Marts, Tescos and IBMs ask for compliance from their suppliers in India.
With the government-run India Meteorological Departments weather forecasts proving erratic, there is a growing market developing for customised weather information solutions
Using mobile technology to deliver financial services can be transformational for poverty alleviation as it links people without bank accounts to formal economic ecosystem.
Suzlons new corporate headquarter One Earth in Pune, which is completely powered by renewable energy, has got Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Platinum certificate.
With rising social consciousness about decent wages and good working conditions, fair trade certification is no longer an expensive fad.