Here I wish to record my ideas about how I can contribute towards environment and energy (non-conventional); and write down about the various organizations and individuals which/who are striving in this direction and have been successful. I may join them, help them advance / expand their activities, or start my own initiatives and involve them.

Mission:
  To Involve More And More People Around The World To Contribute Towards Improving Environment.
  To Convince More And More People To Use Non-Conventional Sources Of Energy.
  To Make India Self-Sufficient For Her Energy Needs.

• IDEAS
• Organizations
• Individuals
• Government of India

        - National Solar Mission

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• IDEAS

        - Green Points System: starting at hostel level, and developing to institute level
            Update (Sept. 3, 2009): Techfest 2009-10 and TECHNIC club have announced a GC for saving energy consumption in hostels. Here, the energy consumption will be observed towards the end of every month, and the percentage savings achieved during the month will be compared. The hostel with highest savings in a month will gain 3 GC points. This GC will be for 3 months.
        - Through IITB-aa (Alumni Association), participate & take initiatives (IITB has a mailing group of environment-concerned campusites.)
        - How about having a PUC (Pollution Under Control) certificate van within the campus?! All the vehicles coming in the campus will have to secure the certificate, else: either they should be made to return from main gate itself or a fine be imposed.

• Organizations

        - EcoReco
        - GreenPeace
        - Google (uses Solar Panels, supports projects, ...)

• People / Individuals

Jairam Ramesh, an IIT B alumnus,  is an MP representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the incumbent Minister of State for Department of Environment and Forests. Earlier he was also the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry as well as the Minister of State for Power in the current Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. While he had two sets of offices in the Commerce and Power ministries, Ramesh did not have the kind of big staff, ministers are used to. He would rather work on his laptop even as he listened to soothing music in glass-door transparent office decorated with ethnic furniture.

Anil K Rajvanshi, an IIT Kanpur alumnus, has been directly involved in a whole spectrum of areas affecting the lives of India's rural population which include cooking and lighting, small power generation, water purification and effluent treatment through the use of renewable energy. Anil will receive the Globe Forum Award 2009 award from H.R.H. Swedish Crown Princess Victoria on June 3rd, 2009 in Sweden, on behalf of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI). NARI has developed a light source which runs on locally produced fuel, is environmentally friendly and produces bright light equivalent to that from a 100 W electric bulb. This lantern also doubles up as a cooking stove thereby solving the twin problem of cooking and lighting for rural households. NARI is the first anywhere to propose and develop a dual purpose lantern running on 55-60% ethanol-water mixture.

• Government of India

        - National Solar Mission : Refer attachment below.
        - Link(s): http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/
        

• Bookmarks

        - Prof. Chetan Singh Solanki, Professor, Energy Science Dept., IIT Bombay (click here)
        - India Environment Portal
        - New ENergy Foundation