Posted March 29, 2012 by Radhika Khosla in Solving Global Warming
I recently had the opportunity to visit Smt. Shardaben General Hospital in Saraspur, Ahmedabad, the city’s municipal hospital which serves some of its poorest communities. As we walked through the different hospital units with increasingly hot temperatures outside, Dr. Shubha...continued→
Posted February 26, 2012 by Radhika Khosla in Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
In 2008, for the first time ever, the urban population of the world outnumbered that of the rural. This visible trend has escalated over the last couple of decades; projections suggest that by the end of the twenty-first century, 80...continued→
Posted November 8, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
Our building energy efficiency work takes me back to Hyderabad and Ahmedabad this week, following up on our conversations with stakeholders in September. Key real estate developers in Hyderabad are leading in advancing energy efficiency adoption in India, as we...continued→
Posted October 26, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
Last month I had the opportunity to witness an important step forward for the real estate community. At a workshop hosted by NRDC and our partners ASCI in Hyderabad, twenty five leading real estate developers and building owners from the...continued→
Posted September 14, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
Next week, Anjali Jaiswal and I will be in India to kick-start dialogues on building energy efficiency in three rapidly growing cities - Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Chennai. Energy efficiency is at the forefront of India’s transition to a low-carbon economy....continued→
Posted July 12, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Solving Global Warming
The US Department of Energy and the Government of India recently announced a multimillion dollar funding opportunity through the Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) - which aims to catalyze collaborative research and development in three focus areas:...continued→
Posted June 14, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
I am headed to Hyderabad this week for a June 21st meeting on what will be the first workshop to encourage Indian and U.S. researchers to take advantage of a major new opportunity for cooperation on critical clean energy research....continued→
Posted May 12, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Solving Global Warming
Energy generating spinning wheels in Gujarat, extensive skywalks in Mumbai, and Soleckshaws (solar-electric rickshaws) in West Bengal are just some of the new imaginative sustainable growth projects being developed in India. I’ve been learning about these innovations during my visits...continued→
Posted May 2, 2011 by Radhika Khosla in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
As part of NRDC's Center for Market Innovation (CMI) and with a background of having worked on energy efficiency in buildings, I can say with confidence that we now recognize well that the built environment holds a particularly important place...continued→
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