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Archive for February, 2012
Alternative is mainstream
The main message from the Nepali Times EcoFair over the weekend was that the “alternative” has become “mainstream”. Nepal Electricity Authroity is a “mainstream” utility, but it doesn’t provide us adequate power, so solar electricity suppliers have now become the mainstream. The state can’t provide enough water, so a rain-water harvesting system has become the […]
Overcome shortages
The Nepali Times EcoFair was inaugurated at the Nepal Academy on Friday with the ceremonial lighting not of an oil lamp but a solar-powered floodlight system. Delivering his keynote address, conservationist Anil Chitrakar said the time to complain had long gone. The challenge was to take the message of ecology, renewable energy and sustainable growth […]
