Sustainable straws the way forward to tackle the issue of microplastics and planetary temperature increase. Dr. Saji Verghese tells us about his revolutionary coconut straws that can be reused, and empower rural women.
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Supercomputing centers consume a large amount of energy as the server cores process data, communication happens between servers, coolant systems keep the machine racks cool and as central air conditioning systems run continuously to keep the centers cool. Because of the high energy consumption of these centers, big data comes with a big carbon footprint. We spoke to Dr. Ram Ramesh about his efforts to optimise these process to reduce supercomputing’s carbon footprint.
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Waste pickers in Bengaluru play a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the city. While they are important to the infrastructure of the city, they work in a largely unregulated industry. We spoke to Akbar Allahbakash from Hasiru Dala about the organisation’s initiatives which are ensuring a sustainable future for them
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Soil, sand, mud, dirt, dust - all intersect with or are related to soil. Soil health is an important indicator of the planet’s health. We talk to Dr. Sangeetha Lenka, a soil researcher and expert on what determines soil health and the relationship it has with climate change.
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Particulate matter of fully or partially combusted carbon based fuel is bad news for various reasons from human health to global temperatures. Read to know more about Nikhil Kaushik’s startup that is approaching carbon sequestering from a creative lens.
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“Carbon is the most basic thing you can use to communicate and yet it also conducts electricity and produces its own electromagnetic field. You can transform that into sound. It’s cosmic,” says Yuditskaya. Click to find out how she uses carbon in her work
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Carbon has 3 isotopes of which two are stable—carbon-12 and carbon-13. Carbon-14 however, is unstable and releases energy in a process called “radioactive decay allowing scientists to use it in radiocarbon dating to understand the timing of ancient natural phenomena like changes in climate, forest fires, and earthquakes. Ashley Streig, a paleoseismologist, works to understand the timing of past earthquakes in hopes of better predicting future ones.
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Architects think about CO2 emissions in two ways: operational carbon and embodied carbon. Architects who aim to build responsibly, work to understand the complete carbon footprint of their designs. This is where Anahita Khodadadi comes in. Her challenge is to get designers to think about the termination of a building at the same point they think about its creation.
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