Sanjeev Ramachandran The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), which had kicked off measures to encourage manufacturing and service organisations to make sustained efforts to protect environment and control all types of pollution, recently picked the Palakkad plant of United Breweries (UB) Ltd for its State Pollution Control Award for year 2007.

Daniel Thimmayya mexpresso@epmltd.com C MATHEMATICS had never really been my strong point, I must confess. Yet my mind did do a bit of a back-flip when the genial gentleman seated opposite me stated that he had planted a whopping tally of 52,000 trees all over the state. The cause of nature has been frequently upheld by numerous citizens of the soil through the last century and before. I somehow doubt though if the city of Coimbatore has ever produced a green prodigy such as M Yoganathan, till date.

TWO INDIAN businesses have won Ashden Awards, leading green energy prize, for their pioneering sustainable energy projects. Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE), which was started in Karnataka and Kerala and is now expanding to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, won the top accolade of "Energy Champion" at the awards ceremony on Thursday night. Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai presented the prize of

Grameen Shakti, has installed 1,50,000 solar home systems in rural and remote areas of Bangladesh Bangladesh's rural development bank, Grameen Shakti bagged the coveted

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NEW DELHI: North Delhi Power Limited has been awarded the Edison Award by Edison Electric Institute of the United States for its operational excellence in the power industry and for utilising and integrating its Geographical Information System (GIS) with other applications for network planning, operations, commercial and asset management. The prestigious annual award is given to international as well as American electric companies for outstanding contributions to advancement of the power industry.

North Delhi Power Limited(NDPL) has been awarded Edison Award, thus becoming the first power distribution utility from India to be honoured at an international level. NDPL officials said the award was presented to discom for operational excellence in the electric industry and for innovative utilization and using Geographical Information System (GIS) for network planning, operations, commercial and asset management.

Aasha Khosa / New Delhi ACC uses cow dung, old shampoo, soap, paint sludge and even municipal waste in five plants. Cow dung, old shampoo, soap, paint sludge and even municipal waste are fed into furnaces that burn lime into cement at the plants of India's leading cement manufacturer, ACC. ACC ,which recently won the Golden Peacock award set up by the UK-based World Environment Foundation, for eco-innovation has procured more than 200,000 tonnes of waste including some hazardous ones to make cement.

While the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change is giving final touches to the draft policy on climate change, innovators at the grassroots are coming up with solutions to tap into renewable energy resources and designing energy efficient devices.

The compressor station of GAIL at Hazira won the prestigious 'Golden Peacock Award for Occupational Health and Safety - 2008'. The award was presented to GAIL at the Global Convention on Climate Change in Himachal Pradesh. The recognition is an acknowledgement of GAIL's various initiatives in the field of Occupational Health and Safety. GAIL has always given top priority to Health Safety and Environment (HSE) in its operations and has and impeccable record.