Bio gas is the answer for three major problems: environment management, energy management and agri system management, President of the Lanka Biogas Assosiation, Professor Ajith de Alwis, said at the launch of Biogas Association yesterday. Sri Lanka must try to promote bio gas as a technology. Though in the past bio gas was considered a poor man's technology, it is well accepted and recognized for its triple importance and the unique capabilities of the process.

A seminar on Green Chemistry was organised by Department of Chemistry, Arya Vidyapeeth College on June 28. Dr BK Das, Prof in Chemistry, Gauhati University delivered a popular talk on the recent developments in this new upcoming subject. He described the application of Green Chemistry in industrial and research areas that could help mankind to use renewable bi-products and non-volatile substances which will give an alternative source such as bio-diesel, bio-gas, non-hazardous solvent that will reduce pollution from our environment, stated a press release.

A grass-roots movement to generate power in towns and basements is challenging the energy industry's status quo.