Media

The Climate Solutions Road Tour was covered in more than 400 print media pieces in India and internationally, and has been covered in multiple television stations! We're thrilled that this means we have reached millions across India and around the world with the message that there are incredible solutions already, and there are major opportunities in addressing climate change and creating a new future that WILL protect our planet and our climate.

If you are interested in covering the Climate Solutions Road Tour in your publication, radio show, television channel, or online media outlet, please contact Caroline at caroline@iycn.in or at +91 9953424293.

If you would like to use some of the content that we are generating -- the documentary videos, the songs, or our documentation of climate solutions -- we'd love to share this information and content with you. Please contact us for more details on how we can provide you with the information and stories of our journey!

Media Coverage to Date

>>: Eco toilets on Indian Railways Trains

Post date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 03:31

I was extremely excited when I heard about Eco-toilets being installed on Indian Railways trains. For those of you who are not familiar with train journeys in India I suggest you read the below first, nothing has changed!

http://desicritics.org/2007/08/17/023330.php

An estimated two million passengers use Indian Railway toilets daily, wasting a huge amount of water and creating massive hygiene problems with 2,74,000 litres of bodily waste being dumped onto the rail tracks each day. There are notices asking passengers not to use the toilet when in stations but it is clear to see that they don’t adhere to them.

Hence my excitement when I heard about Eco-toilets!

>>: SEED: Solar Energy for A Better Life

Post date: Friday, February 27, 2009 - 23:27

Society for Energy, Environment and Development came into being in 1987. The NGO works in the area of spreading awareness about environmental issues and creating devices to enhance the quality of life. SEED has invented the solar powered solar air dryer. It has been designed by Prof M Ramakrishna Rao, founder and general secretary of SEED and a solar energy technologist.

The NGO is engaged in food processing technologies using solar dryers and also in the marketing of solar dried products. SEED also sets up micro-enterprises in solar food processed products in rural areas.

Patented by the Indian Patents Office, solar food processing is a technology developed by SEED for the purpose of dehydrating fruits, vegetables, forest produce, spices and sea-food to the permissible moisture limits. It leads to enhanced preservation and increases their shelf life, meeting the international cleanliness standards. The solar dryers run with zero energy cost without tempering with the important nutrients that are often wasted in drying processes.

Solar dryers are used in micro-enterprises for solar food processing. This has ushered in a wave of change in the village population. The enterprises have led to the self employment for small farmers, escalated incomes in rural areas and sensitised people about the advantages of using solar energy.

>>: S3IDF: Empowering Lives through New Lights

Post date: Friday, February 27, 2009 - 23:32

With its headquarters in Cambridge, MA, USA, and the regional chapter in Bangalore, the Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund, Inc (S3IDF) is an NGO that has succeeded in establishing a connect between poor communities, renewable energy providers, and local banks in southern India. The NGO has carried out 35 cost effective renewable lighting projects for urban and rural communities that have benefited nearly 5,500 people.

“Access to reliable infrastructure services like energy, water, transportation and Information Communication Technology (ICT) play an important part in poverty alleviation. S3IDF creates enterprises to provide sustainable infrastructure services to the poor via technological, business development and financial linkages, and implementing solar energy projects across various villages is focus area of our activities,” says CFO/Acting CEO Vipula Sharma.

The S3IDF Lighting Initiative has been able to link modern energy supply chains and unconnected poor communities, worked out financing possibilities and enabled them to access infrastructural know-how. This has helped in lifting up the life standards of poor households and small rural enterprises. Earlier the communities were spending quite a substantial part of their earning on polluting energy sources such as firewood, candles, batteries and kerosene. But now with the intervention of the NGO, they have realised the importance of renewable energy.

>>: From Furnace to Freedom: Women Barefood Solar Engineers Association of Hyderabad

Post date: Friday, February 27, 2009 - 23:35

Chennamma, Yelamma, Kalavati and Zayda are four women in their thirties. Trained by National Institute for Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad, they constitute the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers Association of Hyderabad, an organisation that installs solar power plants across India and trains underprivileged women in solar technology. These four women manufacture solar lamps and travel throughout India with the purpose of installing solar power generators.

“These women with no education previously worked as stone crushers earning meagre wages in South India’s quarries. They are now engaged in a highly rewarding job which has transformed their lives,” says Rural Technology Park Project Director, Dr Senthil Vinayakam. As a result of the training, they gained freedom and respect from people besides being able to earn better livelihood.

It all started in 2002, when Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College and the Social Work and Research Centre in Tilonia, Rajasthan, suggested that NIRD should teach village women how to assemble solar lanterns. The four women were picked up by Roy and NIRD as the first batch of trainees. The women travelled several times to Rajasthan to learn solar engineering.

>>: Print Media in Delhi

Post date: Monday, February 23, 2009 - 15:42

To see each of these articles, you can visit them all online. We'll be posting each individually over the coming days. If you have more articles in magazines or online that you've found, please do email them to us at indiaclimatesolutions@gmail.com . If you're interested in creating a new story about the road tour, IYCN or the Climate Solutions Project, feel free to contact Caroline at caroline@iycn.in or at (0091 if outside of India) 9953424293

>>: Global Reprinting of Friedman's Story

Post date: Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 13:57

Re-Printing:

Mexico, NY Times Syndicate: Si pudieron, Lo Hicieron

International Herald Tribune

World News Network

Indiana Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania

Post Bulletin, Rochester, Minnesota

Silicon Valley Mercury News: Caravan through India shows bright hope of youth, solar

Deccan Chronicle: A Chennai-Delhi story of hope on climate

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Young Go Extra Mile & Drive Innovation

Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Thinking that Energizes: A climate caravan in India shows what is possible with action

Seattle Post Intelligencer: Yes They Could, So They Did. with very interesting comments!

>>: Goa Media for Climate Solutions Road Tour

Post date: Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 00:00

These are a few of the various articles about the Climate Solutions Road Tour stop in Goa. You can see all of these online, and more posted individually in the media section. Search for Goa and you'll find a number of our own reflections on our time in Goa!

>>: Pune Media of Climate Solutions Road Tour

Post date: Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 00:00

The media coverage in Pune was excellent and all can be found online in greater detail by clicking on the slideshow above or the website online or by visiting http://indiaclimatesolutions.com/media for all media coverage.

>>: Ahmedabad Media for Climate Solutions Road Tour