Recently, a number of friends reached out to me to know more about ‘Carbon Credits’; knowing well that their interest in climate change and carbon credits was very limited, it was slightly surprising for me to have their keen queries on carbon credits. It did not take much time to figure out that their interest… Continue reading Net Zero Goals and Rush For Carbon Credits
Author: Santosh
Addressing social and economic development challenges in different capacities.
The search for the best secure, encrypted and ad-free email service
Two decade back I had never imagined how important (and how frustrating) email was going to be. Today, when I look at my most commonly used personal email id (yes, its a gmail id) it is a nightmarish mess of spam, alerts, notifications, family mails, transactions receipts and key documents. But this is only one… Continue reading The search for the best secure, encrypted and ad-free email service
What I read in 2021
Non-fiction This year I consumed more reports on climate change and carbon market than books. COP26 was a landmark event for everyone whether working on climate change or not and it produced a lot of decisions and debates, resulting in hundreds of reports and opinion pieces. Before the COP26, we also had a launch of… Continue reading What I read in 2021
Inadequate investments and slow growth of renewable energy will make Energy Transition painful.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com If you have been reading about the success of solar energy and how renewable energy is going to replace coal, then the recent news of the coal shortage and the impending global energy crisis might baffle you. For the last 2-3 weeks the newspapers have been highlighting how we are… Continue reading Inadequate investments and slow growth of renewable energy will make Energy Transition painful.
The 1.5 degree scenario is almost beyond our reach.
Photo by Alto Crew on Unsplash The IPCC Assessment Report 6- The physical sciences bases is full of bad news for humanity and a lot of science highlighting and supporting why we need to take this bad news seriously. It gives us more and more evidences (as if we did not already have enough!) that the global warming is… Continue reading The 1.5 degree scenario is almost beyond our reach.
Going beyond the words and promises
Plastic Bottles are one of the top three contribution to plastic pollution globally. Photo by Brian Yurasits on Unsplash You always have choices and will be known for what you chose. A company in Australia https://thankyou.co/categories realized that it had a silly product in its portfolio. Packaged Drinking Water- a major source of plastic pollution. It stopped producing it.… Continue reading Going beyond the words and promises
What I read in 2020
Photo by Element5 Digital on Pexels.com 2020 started horribly for me, and I am not talking about the pandemic which came later. The horrible start of the year forced me to agonise over and introspect about many things that would have never caught my attention normally. The vortex of pain and agony forced me… Continue reading What I read in 2020
Evernote, Notion, Roam – Why and How I am using all of them
RoamResearch and Notion together create a perfect knowledge management work-flow and system.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Little Dog might sound as a strange name but once I read the story behind his name, there was a tender familiarity that seeped through. Little Dog was named so to save him from bad things happening to him; making him undesirable so that death which prefers to take away the precious things ignores him.
Working from home and the tech I use
The lock-down has forced us to work from home and while some of us have been used to it (I used to work from home from 2015 to 2018 and still I find working from home more productive!) but a number of my friends have been finding it quite challenging. While there is a mental-shift… Continue reading Working from home and the tech I use