Slurry from toilet biogas systems fetches Gujarat farmers better price

Slurry discharged by toilet-linked biogas plants, when used as manure, improved crop yield, its appearance and hence increased its market price …

This Kenyan farmer is modernizing — and maintaining a circular mindset

A concept of growing interest in developed countries, a circular economy keeps resources in use for as long as possible, and extracts maximum value

Biogas from oilseeds

Portable biogas plant

A little concern...

...and lo, what is being wasted can be utilised by rural communities for larger benefits

Biogas unlimited

Gassed

Villagers benefit from a simple new biogas design

Pune's eco friendly family: Taking care of energy needs in a renewable way

Say hello to the Dighe family. Residents of Karve Nagar in Pune, this family has become a role model for many others who want to change the way …

Cooking with compost

Beyond its curricula

A school for the hearing impaired sets an example in using alternate energy

Gujarat villages need subsidy for biogas. But there's no one to pay

There is a void since Gujarat Agro Industries stopped paying from 2017

CSE clean city award: Why Alappuzha is one of the cleanest cities in India

Alappuzha has an excellent waste disposal system. It relies on decentralised biogas plants and composting to take care of 80 per cent of its waste.…

Siloxanes: Harmless chemicals or ubiquitous hazards?

Our toothpastes, moisturisers and deodorants on one hand and burgers and fries on the other – have one thing in common: They are all …

Cooking disaster, for free

West Delhi hutment residents use methane emanating from an abandoned garbage dump for fuel

Peel power

A waste byproduct earlier, banana peels are now hailed as a new source of biogas

Milk waste

A new filter reduces effluents from diary industries and also produces biogass

POOP – It’s not crappy!

If we utilized whole lot of crap India produced per day through open defecation, we could light around 1,092,000 street lights or 72,800 stoves …

Your Very Own Biogas Plant: In Conversation with Priyadarshini Karve

Pune, today, is known as one of the most environmentally conscious cities of India. Home to many people who are environmentally motivated, Pune …

Fuelling the movement

BIOGAS: THE INDIAN NGO EXPERIENCE·Soma Dutta, Ibrahim H Rehman, Preeti Malhotra and Venkata Ramana P·Tata Energy Research Institute,…

Waste not

Kitchen waste and aquatic weeds are the newest sources for biogas and manure. The days of cowdung are numbered

Power. Continuous

Scientists have developed a more efficient biogas plant that can operate continuously

The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Burning bright in Nepal

The economic blockade by the Madhesi community has inadvertently spruced up demand for biogas plants in Nepal

Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon

BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS -- ISSUES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Edited by E J Da Silva, C Ratledge and A Sasson Publisher: …

Local resources can meet India's rural needs

The use of kerosene for lighting and biomass for cooking is predominant throughout rural India. And since provision of grid electricity to rural …