With the growing concern for climate change and the need for conservation, the perils of wastage are like the writing on the wall. Many people in the city have started making efforts to reduce wastage, either by conserving energy or using efficient alternatives.

Though frequent carpools to work, reuse of paper, saving fuel and using less of plastic definitely helps save the environment. But another arena where a substantial amount of wastage can be curbed has to be that of day-to-day cosmetics

Atiq Khan

Mayawati government's drive towards energy conservation

To bring down power consumption by 10 p.c.

State is deficient in power generation

LUCKNOW: In a massive energy conservation drive, use of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) has been made compulsory in government buildings, aided institutions, corporations and autonomous bodies in Uttar Pradesh. An order to this effect was issued by the State government on July 15. It has been estimated that with the use of CFL, consumption of energy would be cut down by about 10 per cent.

Supply to be disrupted in Chennai for one hour a day

Zonal system for industrial units to be revived

CHENNAI: Acknowledging that the State is suffering from power shortage of 1,000 megawatt (MW), Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami on Friday announced that the scheme of "power holiday' will come into force from Monday.

In Chennai, the supply would be disrupted for one hour a day. The city would be classified into eight divisions and each division would not have supply for an hour. Other municipal corporations and municipalities would have to go without supply for two hours.

IBM on Friday announced the launch of the second phase of Project Big Green (PBG 2.0) in India, and also introduced new modular data centres it said can reduce energy consumption by as much as 50%. As part of PBG 2.0, senior company officials told a news conference here, IBM is introducing new products and services in the country to help enterprises build "greener" technology infrastructures that can meet growing business requirements.

Companies should come forward and reduce their costs by setting up state-ofthe-art data centers. Kiran Karnik Ex-President, NASSCOM and Conference Chairman CIOs must not merely be IT leaders, but must also be responsible for key business functions Partha Iyengar Regional Research Director Gartner India Companies need to invest in business continuity to help bring businesses back up in minimal time Manoj Suvarna CountryManager, StorageWorks Division, HP India Companies can mitigate risk by standardising IT and data center processes.

Papia Lahiri, Ishta Vohra, Durba Ghosh New Delhi IN the wake of global warming and concerns over environmental degradation, companies are integrating green agenda into their business models. The concept of Green-IT is awakening India Inc to IT's responsibilities IT towards environment conservation. More than 500 million computers became obsolete worldwide by the end of 2007, while energy consumption from data centers touched 123 kWh. "The concern is now to make IT infrastructure energy efficient,'' Suresh Menon,head, storage business, Dell India, observed at the IT conclave.

AUSTRALIA lags behind most rich nations in taking the easiest steps to make an emissions trading scheme as cheap as possible: becoming more energy efficient at home, work and on the road. Due largely to a love of petrol-guzzling cars and an energy-intensive manufacturing sector, Australia's energy efficiency improved at only a third of the rate of the OECD average between 1990 and 2004. According to a report released today by the Climate Institute, only Canada and the US, among developed countries, use more energy than Australia on the goods and services they produce.

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A national-level workshop on promoting Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) is being organised by the Haryana Renewable Energy Department in collaboration with Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) of the Union Power Ministry on July 11 at Gurgaon. Haryana Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Renewable Energy and Power, Ashok Lavasa said the workshop is aimed at highlighting the issues of energy efficient and design, create awareness about ECBC, technological options and project achievements made in energy efficiency in building operational strategies.