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How to power the energy innovation lifecycle

2013-08-07T09:39:00.000-07:00

How to power the energy innovation lifecycle

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Center for American Progress Washington DC, DC

United States

38° 53' 42.4032" N, 77° 2' 10.9176" W

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Location:

Center for American Progress Washington DC, DC

United States

38° 53' 42.4032" N, 77° 2' 10.9176" W

See map: Google Maps

Summary of the report by Sean Pool, the Special Assistant for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress. You can read the full report here.

How to power the energy innovation lifecycle

Center for American Progress, www.AmericanProgress.org: 21 Jun 2010 06:53 AM PDT

A new CAP report by Sean Pool presents the “network lifecycle” approach to clean energy innovation. The paper shows how the innovation lifecycle of clean energy technology can be divided into five phases, each involving a different an evolving network of participants with its own challenges and policy needs.

Freeing our economy from its dangerous addiction to fossil fuels and averting the calamitous risks of climate change will require a major technological transformation in the way we produce, transmit, and consume energy. Inventing, developing, building, and deploying these new technologies will require a new era of American technological innovation. The result will be new industries and jobs, along with more clean energy and less pollution.

The good news is that we know that innovation is a fundamental driver of economic growth, and America has led the world in innovation for the past two centuries—from the mechanization of textile manufacturing in the late 18th century to the invention of the Internet in the late 20th century. Innovation is America’s first and greatest competitive advantage—or, as President Obama said “it’s in our DNA.” Twenty-first century clean energy technologies are already being designed, built, marketed, and installed to replace more than a century’s worth of entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure, and a recent report by the Department of Commerce indicates that there are nearly 2 million clean energy jobs in our economy today, with more on the way.

The bad news, however, is this: the United States lags behind many other countries in these emerging technology sectors because our public policy does not fully recognize the central role that innovation plays in sustaining quality economic growth and job creation. Part of the problem is a lack of understanding about exactly what innovation is, how it works, and more importantly who is involved (see box). Policymakers in particular need to understand how different public and private sector players interact to form innovation networks, and how these networks change over time, which is why we’ve put together this primer on the energy innovation lifecycle.

We’ll first define the different stages of the innovation lifecycle, then describe the network of players engaged at each stage of the process. This “network lifecycle” approach can help us better understand who does innovation, the processes that drive it, and the opportunities for public policy to aid it at various points in the process. As you’ll see, our innovation economy in the energy arena needs some key reforms to perform at its peak again.

Defining innovation: new ideas that create value

“Innovation” is a broad and often vague term, and its meaning varies in different policy circles. But no matter what the context,innovation is fundamentally the process of inventing, introducing, and adopting a new product, practice, system, or behavior.

An innovation can be a new product, machine, policy, business model, administrative structure, managerial system, or even a new cultural or social norm that benefits society. But regardless of whether an innovation affects social processes, economic process, or physical and technological processes, what distinguishes an innovation from an idea or a principle is that it creates value and improves society.

This paper focuses on clean energy technology innovation—the invention and propagation of new machines that generate, save, or transmit energy. But as we will show, producing these new devices also requires the use of new modes of manufacturing, which can be thought of as technologies themselves, as well as new business models that can finance, produce, market, and sell these new machines.

Creating a clean energy economy is just as much about “process innovation”—incremental improvements to the materials and manufacturing process of technologies we already know about—as it is about finding new or undiscovered “breakthrough technologies.” Understanding the five phases of energy “innovation lifecycles” and the five kinds of participants in “innovation networks” will help show how these seemingly separate goals are actually related.

Five phases of the energy “innovation lifecycle”

Energy innovation is not just the process of inventing new technologies and doing research and development in government or university labs. Innovation is actually a set of interrelated processes that can be broken down into five basic phases:

Discovery
Development
Demonstration
Commercialization
Maturation

Each phase is undertaken by a different and evolving network of participants, and each has its own distinct policy needs.

The five-phase summary below is a synthesis of numerous academic innovation lifecycle models dating back to Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian economist born in the late 19th century. It is important to note that rather than discrete or entirely separate categories, the different phases in this generalized model take place along a continuum and sometimes may overlap.

Discovery

Discovery is the process of researching a basic idea or scientific principle that may one day lead to a useful technology, and is done mostly by researchers in universities. This process also goes by the names “basic science,” “blue skies research,” or “pure research,” and the first goal of the process is to expand the store of scientific knowledge. Technologies at this stage in life are not fully formed, and most will never graduate to the next stage of development due to technical or cost-related constraints. Nevertheless, the goal of public policy at this stage is to empower smart researchers to cast as wide a net as possible in the hopes that one idea in a hundred could one day revolutionize industry. Government grants for university research and funding of federal labs are the primary sources of funding for this early phase of innovation, since there is not yet a functional technology that can produce profits for private investors. The Energy Frontier Research Centers are an excellent example of recent Department of Energy policy that is supporting discovery by putting money in the hands of able researchers with promising ideas on a competitive basis. The discovery phase
creates science research and administrative jobs.

Development

Development is the process of linking the basic science of a discovery with functional technology, also sometimes known as “applied research.” Universities and government labs often continue to play a lead role during development, although promising technologies may begin to attract the attention of potential entrepreneurs, who seek out “seed funding” to help create startup companies to work on
developing the technology or even building functional prototypes.

Because the risks are too great for typical investors, this early jolt of private capital most often comes from angel investors—wealthy individuals who support entrepreneurs with personal funding—or venture capital firms, which do the same with larger pools of funding. Because funding for development is often very scarce, inventors and entrepreneurs themselves sometimes must tap into their personal
savings—this is known as “boot-strapping.” This phase is also sometimes referred to as the “seed stage,” as the potential business generally has not developed a fullgrown and profitable business plan.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, was designed on the same model as its older brother, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. ARPA-E is an initiative of the DOE initially funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and is an excellent example of support for development- phase technology innovation. Job creation during development includes both public and private research and administrative jobs, as well as the possibility for business, management, finance, and perhaps small-scale fabrication jobs.

Demonstration

Demonstration is the process of finalizing prototypes and testing them under real-world conditions to assess operability, technical performance, profitability, and in some cases even regulatory issues. This may also be referred to as “proof of concept” or “technology transfer” because this is the phase when technology must begin to move from labs and research institutions to assembly lines and
businesses. Both demonstration and early commercialization are sometimes also referred to as “deployment.”

Examples might include the construction and operation of a first-of-its-kind advanced nuclear reactor, a demonstration scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery, or a coal-fired power plant with carbon capture-and-storage technology. All of these are scientifically understood technologies that are undergoing small-sale demonstration as a precursor to wider commercialization. Manufacturers who build, contractors who install, and utilities that operate and monitor the technology become essential parts of the innovation network at this stage, and their interactions with researchers and financiers promote an important kind of real-world knowledge
creation called “learning by doing.”

Although demonstration projects are rarely profitable in isolation, the primary goal of demonstration is to indicate to the public, potential investors, and the business community that production processes now exist and that the technology is nearing market. As this takes place, the burden of financing begins to shift from basic government research grants to much smaller “proof of concept” development grants and on toward private financing from angel investors and venture capital firms, though the risks are still very high. For capital-intensive, industrial scale technologies, such as a commercial-scale carbon capture-and-storage coal plant, financing for demonstration may flow directly from established industry players or other large companies.

But private investors need to see a clear path to profitability before investing, and demonstration projects on their own can rarely provide this without public support. In the highly regulated and capital intensive energy industry, the path to profitability often depends on significant government incentives and assurances. This is especially problematic for capital-intensive clean energy technologies that require a lot of upfront investment to develop land, build power lines, and construct and install equipment. The scarcity of private finance is why many in the business and policy community refer to the process of carrying a promising technology from proof of concept through commercialization as crossing the “valley of death.”

Commercialization

The commercialization phase is when new technologies must meet the market test. Entrepreneurs must prove that they can produce and sell the new products profitably to early adopters and niche markets. This generally involves finalizing production processes, building a factory, obtaining manufacturing equipment, developing relationships with component suppliers, and finding enough potential buyers to make it all a worthwhile investment.

The “valley of death” private financing problem is acute at this stage, too, as new funding is critical to this cash-intensive and often capital-intensive phase of the innovation cycle. Follow-on rounds of venture capital, private equity, and/or debt financing (that is, borrowing from a bank or selling bonds) become increasingly prominent sources of money, as small- to medium- scale manufacturing and services operations are established. Startup companies at this phase are expected to generate some cash flow from sales of the technology, although profitability for the first few years may still depend on government incentives such as tax credits or cash grants for investment and electricity production, loan guarantees, or the sale of Renewable Energy Certificates to utilities who need them to meet state renewable electricity standards.

Commercialization is a critical bottleneck in current U.S. innovation policy because entrepreneurs have a growing backlog of technically proven technologies for which they cannot find affordable financing to grow their operations and achieve the economies of scale necessary to compete with conventional incumbent technologies. A Clean Energy Deployment Administration or “Green Bank” that can provide loan guarantees and other credit enhancements is one potential policy response to this market pitfall. The creation of a public-private equity investment partnership could be another way to break this financing bottleneck.

Commercialization creates more permanent manufacturing and construction jobs, as companies increase profitability and invest in and operate new manufacturing facilities, and as clean energy technologies are deployed, installed, and operated.

Maturation

Maturation occurs when new technologies graduate from niche to mainstream markets by scaling up manufacturing, gaining market share, increasing efficiency, and showing that they can compete on cost with incumbent sources of energy. In the case of renewable energy, this often occurs once technologies reach “grid parity”—the point at which the renewable energy is equal to or cheaper in price
than existing power sources.

As new technologies become commercially competitive, they gain market share and gradually begin to displace incumbent technologies. This process is sometimes also called “diffusion.” Mature innovation networks should ideally become profitable for all participants independent of government incentive programs, although in the case of the incumbent fossil fuel industry, many wasteful subsidies continue to persist due to political pressure. As profitability becomes positive, seed-stage investors, angel investors, and venture capitalists are able to “exit” their investments and make a profit, either by selling their shares at an initial public offering or by selling the entire company to another larger corporation.

The innovation cycle begins anew at this stage as increasingly self-sufficient clean energy manufacturers begin to reinvest their own profits in new research toward incremental improvements to their technology and production process, or seek to acquire smaller companies with promising ideas for how to continue to improve quality or reduce costs. Continuing process innovation remains critical, even for mature technologies, but policymakers all too often ignore this aspect of innovation policy. The bailout of the U.S. auto industry, for example, can be seen as a failure of a mature industry to continue to innovate.

A major goal of public policy at this stage is to ensure that cutting-edge researchers and manufacturers continue to collaborate effectively to organically develop and commercialize the next generation of clean energy manufacturing technologies. But direct government incentives for investment and production of the original technology should begin to sunset on a reliable path.

Finally, finding a price for carbon that finally holds polluters accountable for the damages they cause would be the largest and most important long-term driver of private sector finance for clean energy activities. It would signal to the investment community that the clean energy sector is ripe for long-term growth, and unleash billions of dollars of in private, profitable investment in new businesses, new infrastructure, and new jobs.

To observe World Environment Day for 2013, Apollo Hospital Madurai conducted a lecture session

2013-08-07T09:35:00.001-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

To observe World Environment Day for 2013, Apollo Hospital Madurai conducted a lecture session on 22-06-2013 Mr. Francis Xavier - Convener of iGREEN invited and delivered the lecture session on "Impact of Global Warming the recent scenario and 350 Campaign"

Herewith i am sharing .some of the snap shots on that occasion.

The level of CO2 in the atmosphere broke previous records, crossing the 400 ppm mark last week. What does it mean for climate change

2013-05-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

Over 30 million in 1 year. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

2013-05-15T09:30:00.002-07:00

Francis Xavier shared 350.org's photo.

Yesterday at 10:45am ·

Over 30 million in 1 year. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

This is the grimmest reality of climate change. Please SHARE if you're sick of seeing people forced out of their homes while the fossil fuel companies make billions.

http://www.trust.org/item/20130513114557-uo68q/

2013-04-21T10:03:00.001-07:00

Dear all,

Green Greetings!

Madurai Institute of Social Science - MISS organised guest lecture sessions for 2nd year Master of Social Work students Spl. in Community Development in this week. On that occasion Mr. Francis Xavier, convener - iGREEN invited as resource person to deliver a lecture session on "Ecology and Development" on 17th April. 2013. He talked about the status of environment and strategy is to maintain balance environment and 350 campaign.

31 students participated

Here with i am sharing some of the snap shots on that occasion.

2013-03-21T07:59:00.000-07:00

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Green Greetings!

iGREEN convener's comments published in THE HINDU Metro Plus.FYI

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/how-green-madurai-is/article4531711.ece

How GREEN Madurai is…

S.S. KAVITHA

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WORLD FORESTRY DAY Observed on March 21 every year should move beyond just planting saplings. It is for each individual to shoulder the responsibility and be sensitive to trees and forests, say S.S. KAVITHA and A. SHRIKUMAR

Madurai’s reference as ‘Kadambavanam’ remains only in books.

The Kadamba forest has given way to a congested town. In places where trees stood , tall buildings have come up. Forests that were untouched have been encroached upon by human population. Records at the District Forest Office indicate that Madurai’s green cover today is 11 per cent, much below the national green cover of 20 per cent. The ideal forest cover requirement for any geographical area is stated to be 33 per cent. So, is this a wakeup call for the Temple Town?

“Madurai division has 38,000 hectares of reserved forest while the district’s green cover stands at an alarming 381 Sq.Km. “Urban forestry must go beyond just planting saplings. Some method to maintain and look after the planted trees should be devised,” warns A.S. Marimuthu, the District Forest Officer. He says of the total number of saplings planted, hardly 20 per cent grow to become trees. ”Any development activity on the roads starts with felling of trees and we lose a further 10 per cent of these grown trees. There are no provisions to ensure replanting of trees,” he points out.

Under the Urban forestry programme, the department plants trees within the corporation limits every year. “But most saplings either get cut or eaten by stray cattle as people steal the tree guards and sell it off,” says Mr.Marimuthu. As an example, he cites the area behind Madurai Kamaraj University where the department has managed to create green cover with the support of the residents.

It is mandatory to water and maintain a sapling at least for three years given the scarce rainfall. The forest department’s nursery maintained by Vadipatti-based women self-help group, sells about 10,000 to 15,000 saplings in a year to individuals apart from giving out for mass and free plantations on various occasions. This year the department’s target is to plant 81,500 saplings. “Neem and Pungai varieties grow well under Madurai’s climate conditions,’ says Mr.Marimuthu.

“Maintenance of social forestry can be given to NGOs so that every planted tree can be protected. At least one tree should be planted every 100 sq.ft. Unused agricultural lands should not be converted into real estate. Instead some variety of trees can be grown that will generate income for the farmer,” notes Francis Xavier, an Environmentalist.

“School children should be sensitized. Every student should be given the responsibility of maintaining a tree on the roadside. Separate herbal gardens should be grown and Shola forests should be conserved and expanded on naked slopes,” he adds.

Dr. D. Stephen, Assistant Professor in Botany, The American College, who is currently working on the conservation of forest patches behind Alagar hills, says, “The Shola forests unique to western ghats are a separate ecosystem. If a single tree is destroyed, the entire thicket vanishes gradually.”

Reserve forests

Reserve forests under Madurai division include semi evergreen forests at Sirumalai, Kizhuvamalai and Vavuthumalai and Dry deciduous forest ranges at Sholavandan and Usilampatti (Elumalai, Sulapuram, Nalluthevanpatti, viralipatti, Kulasekerankottai, Vikiramanagalam).

Under the aegis of Tamil Nadu Afforestation Programme, the department has motivated villagers on the forest fringes to take up alternative jobs and sources of livelihood instead of trespassing into reserve forest area. Forest committees comprising villagers were formed in villages bordering reserve forests to monitor illegal activities.

“Over the years, awareness level has gone up among public,” says Marimuthu. “In Madurai district, grazing of cattle, fire and illicit felling are the main causes for forest degradation. Illicit felling has reduced considerably but cattle grazing and agricultural activities inside reserve forests continue to be major threats.”

The department has also implemented Tamil Nadu Bio diversity project that concentrates on creating green cover on private waste lands. So far, the year old project has been implemented in 10 villages in Usilampatti area. Both long and short rotation trees have been planted and the beneficiary can harvest the trees after six and 15 years respectively.

As far as reserve forests are concerned, re-growth of wild trees is never ensured once they are destroyed and hence certain species have become endangered. “We are trying to revive those species through tissue culture,” says Dr.Stephen and adds, “We are yet to develop a monitoring system to ensure sustenance of seeds germinated under lab conditions in the wild.”

Two days National seminar- Dept. Economics- Arul Anandar College, Karumathur

2013-03-12T23:02:00.001-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

Arul Anandar college, Department of Economics organised Two days National Seminar on Innovative strategies in Marketing the manufactured products by SHG.-7th and 6th march 2013 sponsored by UGC . On that occasion Mr. Francis Xavier, Director - People's welfare Society convenor - iGREEN invited as resource person to deliver a lecture session on, "Present strategies in Marketing products esp. Eco friendly products by SHG".

Herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots on that occasion.

CARGO 2013 - Department of social work, Baharthidasan university.Thanjavur

2013-03-12T22:57:00.001-07:00

Dear all,

Green Greetings!

Department of social work, Baharthidasan university constituent college for women, orathanadu, Thanjavur district organised CARGO 2013 from 25th Feb. to March 1st 2013. On that occasion Mr. Francis Xavier, convenor - iGREEN invited as resource person to deliver a lecture session on "how to be easy being Green?" on 25th Feb. 2013.

herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots on that occasion.

2012-10-03T01:36:00.001-07:00

iGREEN- Convener's comments published in The Hindu - Metro Plus.

FYI.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article3890660.ece

TODAY'S PAPER » FEATURES » METRO PLUS

September 13, 2012

Will Madurai rejoice while Mudalipatti mourns?

A. SHRIKUMAR

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SAFETY The blast at a firecracker unit in Sivakasi last week has shaken the state. Will this Diwali be associated with death? As the festival nears, A. SHRIKUMAR finds out if crackers are really a necessary part of celebrations.

CONSCIENCE VS CHOICETo burst or not remains a questionPhoto: Ritu Raj Konwar

“We celebrate the death of one Narakasura at the cost of so many deaths. Will this Diwali be the same?” reads a blog by Dravida Puratchi on Facebook. The thread has attracted numerous likes and comments dittoing the feeling of the writer. Till last Wednesday, when 38 lives were shattered in a blast at a firecracker unit in Mudalipatti in Sivakasi, Diwali meant joy and was looked forward to as always. But now many have a different take on the festival.

Fourteen-year-old Manoj is aghast at the disturbing images of the blast on TV and in newspapers. “I couldn’t fight back tears seeing the people crying and howling. If someone like me sitting in Madurai and watching on TV is disturbed so much, I wonder what the families of the deceased are going through. I have vowed not to burst crackers for Diwali,” says Manoj.

It was also a sleepless night for Rajkumar, a Madurai Medical College student. “From my hostel room, I kept hearing ambulance sirens all night on Wednesday and also the following day as many victims were brought to GRH. Images of burnt bodies kept knocking my head,” says Rajkumar. “I have never been much interested in crackers. This has even intensified my aversion to bursting crackers.”

Sivakasi - a death bed?

Ramesh Aloysius, a student hailing from Sivakasi, says, “I had always been proud of my hometown being one of the largest firecrackers-producing cities in the world. But it is also painful to note that Sivakasi is now being referred to as a death bed. Though there have been many blasts, this recent one was of huge magnitude. The right way to pay homage for the dead is to avoid crackers for this Diwali.”

It is the culture of indiscriminately bursting crackers that has tainted the concept of Diwali. “Diwali is essentially a festival of lights and not a festival of sound,” says Dr. Dheep, Senior Psychiatrist and Chairman of TOPKIDS. “Parents should advise children not to burst crackers. Kids should be made to understand the difficulties faced by labourers in cracker manufacturing units. Every year around Diwali, our volunteers go to schools and colleges to sensitize students. The Sivakasi event is surely a wake-up call for all of us. We must rethink whether crackers are necessary for celebrations and for expressing joy.”

Francis Xavier, environmentalist from iGreen, says that the Sivakasi blast has given a new dimension to the campaign against crackers. “Apart from the noise pollution and the thick smog on Diwali night that we highlight as ill effects of crackers, we will also include the tragedy in our campaign,” says Francis. “Volunteers from iGreen have already covered 16 schools appealing not to burst crackers and we found that many students came forward themselves in support of the cause.”

On the other hand, Mathalai, distributor of a popular fireworks brand, laments the impact of the accident on sales. “The blast seriously means a drop in demand and of course my earning. Crackers are not to be avoided, it’s just the system to be held responsible and rectified,” says Mathalai. “If people don’t buy crackers, how will we survive?” Though Mathalai may sound insensitive, there are in fact many in Tamil Nadu who earn their livelihood directly or indirectly from the firecracker industry.

Many wonder if restricting or banning crackers will help. “Restrictions can be exercised on bursting crackers,” says Dr. S. Rajamohan, Chairman of Enviro Care India Private Limited.

“Decibel levels and the time limit to burst crackers can be fixed. But complete ban is quite impossible as crackers have seeped into our culture. In places like Madurai, even for ceremonies like death or marriage, people burst crackers.”

Vijay Bhaskar, an official from Pollution Control Board in Virudhunagar District, says that a maximum of 125 decibels has been fixed for bombs. “We calibrate the noise level and the smoke for three days including Diwali day every year and we find a positive trend that the decibel levels are gradually dropping over the years. People these days are going for light-emitting crackers rather than sound-emitting ones.” Dravida Puratchi points out that two months from now, when the whole country celebrates Diwali, the villagers of Mudalipatti and the families of the victims will still be mourning. “To burst and not burst crackers is purely a personal choice. But if the tragedy has shaken consciences of people, at least the coming Diwali should be crackers-free. Only then, it’s a befitting respect paid to the lost lives.”

School contact program on "E- Waste Management and 350 Campaign "

2012-09-27T10:08:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

In collaboratation with Indian Agriculture Development Foundation - (IADF), Madurai, iGREEN has conducted a School contact program on "E- Waste Management and 350 Campaign " with the support of TOXICS link, a Delhi based NGO and Nokia, on 29-08-2012 at St. Mary's Hr. Sec.School. and with the approval of Madurai District Chief Educational Officer.
Mr, Francis Xavier conducted the orientation program and delivered the lecture session on "E- Waste Management and 350 Campaign ", He talked about

What is e- waste is.
Classification of e-waste
Sources of e-Waste-
Effects of e-Waste constituent on health
Need of e-Waste Management
Management of e-waste
Responsibilities of the Government
Responsibility and Role of industries and
Responsibilities of the Citizen and
350 campaign

This School contact Program at reaching students of 60 schools in Madurai Corporation

Herewith i am sharing some of snap shots on that occasion

2012-05-09T23:40:00.003-07:00

Dear Freinds,

Green Greetings!

As the world marked the first International Climate Impact Day on 05.05.2012, iGREEN also took initiative to observe the day at Madurai. As part of generating awareness among the general public via the IEC media, efforts were taken to advocate about climate change to the pilgrims of the Meenakshi marriage Funtion and God Alagar Car Festival.. Awareness genrated to more than ten lakh people during this initiative.

Herewith I am sharing some of the photos.

Zero Plastic Campaign @ Idayapatty Village - Madurai District.

2012-05-07T23:52:00.002-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

People's Welfare Society, a mother NGO of iGREEN is conducting Tailoring unit and free tuition center at idyapatti village and 500 Veedu for past 2 year. Last week Mr. Francis Xavier Director of PWS took a session on zero Plastic campaign for tuition center Children. At end of the session He gave assignment to the the student that they have to collect the plastic from their home first. Yesterday Mr. Francis Xavier have asked them to bring the collected Plastic at PWS Field office. . Most of the students collected. Especially Dhanam Differently able girl studying 3rd standard collected more plastic then the others. The children those who have involved in this assignment were appreciated by PWS The Kaviyan groups gave a set of ready made dress as a token of appreciation.

Herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots.

350 campaign @ Periyar Maniyamai University

2012-03-18T07:15:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

The Periyar Maniammai University conducted Knowlwdge Enrichment Programme - KEP for thier Enginering students on 16th March 2012 in their university campus at vallam, Thanjavur. I was invited as a resource
person for taking a session on Impact of Global Warming and 350 campaign. 250 civil engineering students and staffs participated.

Most of the students promised to reduce carbon effect from 398P.P.M to 350 P.P.M in their daily activities like

. Using Public transportation
. Stop their motor bike at the red signal
. start to use their cycle again
. stop using perfume
. make their campus as a zero plastic Zone

விஜயராணி என்றும் பசுமை ராணியாக இருக்க பெண்கள் தின வாழ்த்துக்கள்

2012-03-07T09:11:00.002-08:00

அன்பு நண்பர்களுக்கு,

பசுமை வாழ்த்துக்கள்

முதுகலை சமூகவியல் பட்ட படிப்பு முடித்த விஜய ராணி - பசுந்தளிர் அமைப்பின் இயக்குனர், தற்சார்ப்பு இயக்கத்தின் உறுப்பினர், அதற்கும் மேலாக ஒரு இயற்கை விவசாயம் செய்யும் ஒரு பெண் விவசாயி. ஐக்ரீன் அறகட்டளை இன் அறங்காவலர்,.

இன்றைய உலகம் அறிவியல் முன்னைற்றைதை நோக்கி போய் கொண்டிருக்கும் வேலையில் அண்ணல் அம்பேத்கர் மற்றும் அன்னை தெரசாவின் கொள்கைகளை உள்வாங்கி தான் ஒரு முன்மாதிரி விவசாயியாக விளங்க உழைத்து கொண்டிருக்கும் ஒரு பெண்மணி..
எங்களது 350 இயக்கத்தின் 2வது இலக்கினை அடைய முயற்சி செய்து கொண்டிருக்கும் ஒரு பெண்மணி.
"வேளாண்மை மற்றும் வன சாகுபடி பெருக்குவது"
வீட்டில் அடைந்து கிடக்கும் பெண்மணிகளுக்கு இவரது இந்த விவசாய முயற்சி நல்லதொரு பூஸ்ட்.
விஷம் இல்லா உணவை வழங்க உழவு செய்து கொண்டிருக்கும் ஒரு பெண்மணி.
தன்னுடைய கிராமம் தற்சார்பு அடைய உழைத்து கொண்டிருக்கும் ஒரு பெண்மணி.
சுழன்றும்ஏரப் பின்னது உலகம் அதனால்
உழந்தும் உலவை தலை

உழுதுண்டு வாழ்வாரே வாழ்வார்மற் ரெல்லாம்
தொழுதுண்டு பின்செல் பவர்

என்ற அய்யன் வள்ளுவன்னின் குறளுக்கு ஏற்ப வாழ்ந்து கொண்டிருக்கும் ஒரு பெண்மணி.

இந்த விஜயராணி என்றும் பசுமை ராணியாக இருக்க பெண்கள் தின வாழ்த்துகளை தெரிவிப்பதில் பெருமை கொள்கிறோம்

இவன்,
சூ. பிரான்சிஸ் சேவியர் - ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர் - ஐக்ரீன்

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Thanks and Regards,
S. Francis Xavier
Project Director - PWS- Madurai.
Convener - iGREEN - TN.
+919842666121

2012-02-15T09:34:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

iGREEN conducted the lecture session on Impact of Global Warming and 350 campaign at Madurai Institute of Social Sciences (MISS) for First year PG Social work students and 2nd year PG Social work students Spl. in Community Development on 13.02 .2012. A brief presentation on the 350 signature campaign and iGREEN initiatives in Tamil Nadu was oriented to the participants by Mr. Francis Xavier, Environmentalist and Convener of iGREEN - Tamil Nadu 80 students were participated.

Note: Mr. Francis Xavier 1999 batch of MISS FYI

2012-02-11T08:36:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings,

PRATHYUSHA Institute of Technology and Management conducted National level seminar on OZONE DEPLETION AND GLOBAL WARMING & 350 Campaign on 8th November 2011sponsored by CSIR, New Delhi organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

I was invited as a resource person for this Programme. Herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots.

Feed Back from the Students

Stop using Deodorant
Spread this message to family members and other friends,
Using Public Transportation
Adopting 3 R Concept
Posting this message in his Face book
one of the staff told that he saved money for purchase new bike. after this session he drooped this idea.
STOP using Air Condition at their home
adopting 5 parts land concept
Stop their vechile engine during the red signal
Stop using Plastic

iGREEN Dreams- Published in Tamil News paper

2011-10-31T11:07:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

Yesterday Our Tamil News paper Dhina Malar in SUNDAY Special has published iGREEN's dream on greening India. Herewith i am sharing about the article.

Action of Mannar College on 350 Campaign

2011-10-14T02:32:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

The Inspiration of 350 Campaign, Ist year Social work students of Mannar Thirumalai Nayakar College adopted a Village namely Siruvalai near by Madurai city and organised some activities and invited me to give guest lecture on 350 campaign to the Government High School Students and Teachers. Herewith i am sharing some of the snaps during the occasion.

Please appreciate those who are taken this effort via reply to all to this mail. and If Media people publish their effort in your magazine and News paper.

GREEN launched Moving Planet Campaign at Thirumalai Nayakar Mannar Arts and Science Govt. College, Madurai.

2011-09-25T10:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

IGREEN launched Moving Planet Campaign at Thirumalai Nayakar Mannar Arts and Science Govt. College, Madurai. The Department of Social Work students participated. The Students oriented on 350 Campaign and Moving Planet Campaign. Herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots.

2011-09-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

On 1st September 2011, iGREEN, Pasunthalir and aattral jointly conducted orientation session on Impact of Global warming in Health aspects and anatomy theraphy for sisters form St. Joesph's of Cluny at Trichy Provincialate . 62 sisters participated and benefited in the program. Mr. Santhappan and myself conduced the session.

Herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots.

2011-08-24T08:30:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

We came to know that some of the encroachers set fire in the protected forest area, nearly 100 acres and cultivating cash crops in sirumalai Hills. iGREEN and Equal Justice had jointly organised fact finding visit with lawyers and media persons and gone to sirumalai Hills. We were shocked when we saw fired forest land. The thick forest covers about 50 square hectares and has valued trees including teak, silver oak, neem, Banyan and sandal wood. Trees of 100 acres land were cut down and fired by the encroachers.

Herewith i am sharing some of the snap shots during the visit

some of the daily new paper has published about the issue today iGREEN and Equal Justice are planning to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL ) in Madurai High court, if the forest department not take any immediate action.

How to power the energy innovation lifecycle

2011-08-16T10:29:00.003-07:00

How to power the energy innovation lifecycle

Location

Center for American Progress Washington DC, DC

United States

38° 53' 42.4032" N, 77° 2' 10.9176" W

See map: Google Maps

Location:

Center for American Progress Washington DC, DC

United States

38° 53' 42.4032" N, 77° 2' 10.9176" W

See map: Google Maps

Summary of the report by Sean Pool, the Special Assistant for Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress. You can read the full report here.

How to power the energy innovation lifecycle

Center for American Progress, www.AmericanProgress.org: 21 Jun 2010 06:53 AM PDT

Defining innovation: new ideas that create value

Five phases of the energy “innovation lifecycle”

Discovery
Development
Demonstration
Commercialization
Maturation

Each phase is undertaken by a different and evolving network of participants, and each has its own distinct policy needs.

Discovery

Development

Demonstration

Commercialization

Maturation

The Following Link Published iGREEN Activities

2011-08-16T10:15:00.000-07:00

The Following Link Published iGREEN Activities

http://2020climatecampaign.org/content/madurai-india

From Madurai, India...

Submitted by Webmaster on 14 January 2011 - 7:23am

Author:

Will Bates

When we first launched 350.org in 2008 one of our basic ideas was to help make the most important number in the world also the most well-known number in the world. We've certainly made immense progress towards that end, though no doubt there are still plenty of folks out there who could still use an introduction. That why it's so encouraging when we visit our email inbox and week after week we get to read messages of new people in new places teaching and learning about 350 and getting in on the action. This latest photo is from Francis Xavier and students at Lady Doak College in Madurai, India:

Who's next?

First year report of iGREEN has shared at India's Capital City

2011-08-11T00:58:00.000-07:00

Mr. Francis Xavier, iGREEN convener, had a chance to share the first year report of iGREEN in a National level 'Climate Leadership Workshop', which was conducted by 350.org and IYCN at New Delhi - India's Capital City, last week. I was invited to participate in the workshop and I took part in it. Herewith i am sharing some of the snoop shots of Climate Leadership workshop.

iGREEN has participated Warming the Globe Conference

2011-08-10T02:04:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Green Greetings!

We have participated in the warming the globe conference at Madurai along with 350. Herewith I am sharing some of snap shots