Australian communities are fighting food waste with circular economies

Australians send about 4 million tonnes of food waste to landfill each year – but what if we could use it for other purposes?

Every cow-pat counts

Even the lowly cow-pat has ownership rules in rural India. But rights over dung, an important source of energy and soil fertilisation, vary from …

Green power

The seed of a humble tree may be a substitute for diesel and could hasten rural electrification

Small farms can be profitable

Ramesh Chander Dagar, an organic farmer from Akbarpur Barota village, Sonipat, Haryana demonstrates how

Biogas rediscovered

Innovative Vidarbha farmers make biogas plants viable.

Burning bright

A new way of making biogas less polluting

Effluent industry’s role in clean energy: Exploring India’s first paper mill waste to compressed biogas facility

It is crucial that states with significant potential promptly implement bioenergy policies and state-level renewable energy agencies vigorously …

India’s compressed biogas sector needs a big push, says ETAC report

India should target a 10 per cent blend of CBG in natural gas by 2030, notes Energy Transition Advisory Committee 

Biogas: A sustainable solution for curbing pollution, improving livelihoods & enhancing quality of life

Installing large-scale municipal biogas systems can help cities handle organic waste efficiently

Clean push: Why compressed biogas has an edge over CNG

CBG can replace CNG as a transport and industrial fuel, while dissuading farmers from setting fire to paddy stubble 

Starting off on the wrong foot

A non-conventional energy complex set up in Brahampur village lies in a shambles today because authorities disregarded the people's requirements

Biogas can solve nation's energy problems

Both government and voluntary agencies are helping to spread biogas technology, which can provide clean fuel and enriched manure as well as …

Africa's first grid-connected biogas plant makes energy affordable, cuts carbon emissions

The biogas plant in Kenya is converting waste into biogas to provide energy

Matheran wastes cooking gas

Switch on biomass

Power crisis spurs market for renewables in rural Bihar

Methane from Indian dumpsites — a missed opportunity & potential climate pollutant

Methane emissions from MSW landfills represent a lost opportunity to capture, recover and use a significant energy resource

Can Bio-CNG click: A primer on this coming of age tech that can deal with air pollution at 3 levels

Apart from biodegradable waste, agricultural residue, cow dung and chicken litter and press mud from sugar factories are also used as feedstock …

Slums in Kenya turning human excreta into energy, fertiliser

Only 30 per cent of people in Kenya have access to safe sanitation and more than six million people defecate in the open

Ministry gets a dose of perestroika

The ministry of nonconventional energy sources is being reoriented to improve efficiency and allow private-sector participation to develop the …

Better biogas plants

Biogas plants need to be improved technologically before they become a success. Efforts are on

Fuel for thought

Biogas generation helps save 112 tonnes of fuelwood use annually in a small Bhopal village

What's cooking in India's largest biogas plant

Methan village in Sidhpur tehsil, Patan district of Gujarat saves 500 metric tonnes of fuelwood annually. They've been doing it for the last 15 …

Can permaculture make agriculture sustainable?

Right recipe

Plastic digester for better biogas production