Tag: lifestyle
How did we live before plastics were invented?
Category: Biopolymers, Lifestyle, Lifestyle, Materials, Moderate, Solid WasteAuthor : Admin September 15, 2016
It was not long back that a person asked me at a conference: How did we live before plastics? Or perhaps the person meant “How could we have lived before plastics?”. Either way, I liked th...Read more
How can Internet of Things contribute to cleantech?
Category: Advanced, Efficiency, Lifestyle, Lifestyle, ProfessionAuthor : Admin September 15, 2016
We are a jerk generation. Oh yeah? Yeah! Don’t agree? Then just how do you explain the following? We forget to switch things off. We run things at a maximum or a minimum, rarely at an optimum W...Read more
How did we come to rely so heavily on fossil fuels?
Category: Basic, Climate Change, Energy, LifestyleAuthor : Admin August 30, 2016
Just in case you did not know, the world runs on coal and oil. Yes, even today. Yes, even when there is so much din about solar power, wind power and biofuels all around. Fossil fuels account for alm...Read more
Does using smartphones drain us of our energy resources?
Category: Basic, Efficiency, Lifestyle, LifestyleAuthor : Admin August 28, 2016
With over a billion people using smartphones worldwide, one gets concerned if smartphones are draining the world of precious energy resources. Let’s do some math to check out if you should inde...Read more
How can design students and professionals contribute to cleantech?
Category: Lifestyle, Moderate, ProfessionAuthor : Admin August 25, 2016
What has design profession got to do with cleantech? A lot, in my opinion. Other than engineers, design professionals perhaps represent the top most segment when it comes to making a difference to cle...Read more
Making cleantech as part of our lifestyle
Category: Basic, UncategorizedAuthor : Admin May 25, 2016
Let’s say I have convinced you that clean technologies can indeed be a key ingredient in making the world more sustainable, without making our lives miserable… But is it easy to adopt the...Read more
How do we get the world back to good? – We could use cleantech for help
Category: BasicAuthor : Admin May 20, 2016
In another post, I made a point that expecting 7+ billion humans to change their lifestyles to save the world is plain unrealistic. So, if we are not going to change our lifestyles dramatically, we n...Read more
How do we get the world back to good? – We could change the way we live…
Category: Basic, LifestyleAuthor : Admin May 13, 2016
So, the world is full of environmental problems – Climate change, pollution, resource scarcity and our own poor lifestyle habits. Most of us feel guilty about not doing something about it. And...Read more
What’s Wrong with the World? – Poor Lifestyle Choices
Category: BasicAuthor : Admin May 5, 2016
Sometime back, I heard that one of my distant relatives was celebrating his dad’s hundredth birthday. His dad was now a centenarian. A hundred years of life. Unimaginable to most of us, but he...Read more
What’s Wrong with the World – Well, Broadly…
Category: BasicAuthor : Admin May 1, 2016
What’s wrong with the world? Too many things are, aren’t they? Poverty, terrorism, arrogance, stupidity… I am sure you have a much longer list than the one above. But I am not here t...Read more