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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Dystopian fiction has become a difficult read for me at this stage of my life. The hopelessness and suffering depicted in these stories trigger…
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Love And Other Thought Experiments
There are several books that are often categorized as ‘genre-bending,’ but this one should be the gold standard to judge whether the term has…
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European Carbon Market – It Works!
Carbon markets, often used to describe the trade of carbon credits (mostly trade of voluntary carbon credits), is one of the least understood mechanisms…
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Climate Action – Slow and Inadequate
As I interact with people who are not immersed in the climate discourse, it is surprising that they believe that there is ‘too’ much…
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”― Friedrich Nietzsche “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” is a fascinating…
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Two decades of blogging and this blog
Two decades can have a transfigurative impact on our memories. Trivial moments morph into bittersweet nostalgia, while monumental events fade into relics of the…
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What I read in 2023
The absurdity of the hope that we will do things differently in the new year than what we did in the year gone by…
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2023 My Tech Setup
For the last couple of years, I have struggled with my tech setup, partially because of my desire to have one minimalist setup that…
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The Most Read Research Papers on ESG
Financial Times did an article on the most read research papers on ESG and here are the top five from the list. The list…
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Biodiversity Financing- Going Beyond Public Finance
Biodiversity conservation and protection needs urgent financing push. With yearly financing gap of more than USD 500 billion, we need to look beyond the…
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Climate Adaptation Technologies – How India can protect its communities against climate change
Women in India will be at a higher risk given 80% of rural women are employed in the agriculture sector, have lower asset ownership…
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Capturing Memories and Growing with ‘Photography’
I bought my first ‘DSLR’ (a Nikon D3200) in 2012 and the trigger was a trip to Germany. Before that I had a point…
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The State of the Carbon Dioxide Removal – Nowhere close to what is needed.
The first edition of the state of the Carbon Dioxide Removal report is out. And, it confirms what many of us have been reiterating…
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Openai ChatGPT3 and the Robot Curve
With public availability of ChatGPT3 people got suddenly exposed to Artificial Intelligence and what it can do. Some are being alarmed about what all careers…
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Reading Theme for this year: Nature and Religion
I just ordered the first lot of books this year on my kindle. Most of these books are on Nature, Sustainability and Religion. This…
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What I read in 2022
I already wrote about what happened with my reading routine and habit this year. But still managed to read some books. Here are the…
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2022 Year in Review: Reading and Books
It is an early morning on a weekend and I am trying to get my thoughts together to plan for the year end trip…
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The ABC of ESG – The Evolution, Drivers and the Next Phase
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits , a seminal piece by Milton Friedman was published on September 13, 1970. As…
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Transforming Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Achieving our SDGs
The Covid-19 pandemic is a big setback to one of the most ambitious goals humanity has ever set for itself: the Sustainable Development Goals…
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How India can benefit from voluntary carbon market
I highlight how voluntary carbon market can help Indian small holder farmers and communities in Economic Times.. Read it at the following link https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/sme-sector/how-india-can-benefit-from-voluntary-carbon-markets/articleshow/92077194.cms