1.  Green and guilt-free mobility
[18/02/2010]  When it comes to mass transportation, green options are being developed aplenty, but almost all are failing the economic viability test. The IIPM Think Tank analyses the economic and social benefit of contemporary machines that will be green, clean and fast – but not necessarily in the same order of priority!
Ice Age, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age... one would think that we should have come of age after going through these multiple bouts of evolution. But then, mankind has had the penchant for reinventin...Read More




2.  Not so ‘Wright’ after all, eh!
[18/02/2010]  A takeoff towards greening the aviation sector is not financially viable. Can we ensure its sustainability?
The fact is – endless rounds of green summits between nations have ended up doing far greater harm than good. And the numerous flights that ferry officials and their teams back and forth to these meet...Read More




3.  15 ships=all cars in the world!
[18/02/2010]  The shipping industry pollutes dramatically more than other modes of transport. It’s in dire need of revival
For the ‘green obsessed’, it isn’t tough to spot pirate ships in global waters. As far as they are concerned, every ship fits the bill. Shipping has been a massive enabler to global trade, but its con...Read More




4.  Let’s just fly a lot lower
[18/02/2010]  High speed railway systems have the potential to bring about rapid progress in the war against warming
By now, the fact that the Copenhagen meet added 46,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it from flights, has become a cliché that has overdone itself. But the illogic fails to resolve the paradox tha...Read More




5.  The 2010 snowball quotient!
[04/02/2010]  Nostradamus had apparently prophetically predicted a nuclear attack in New York in the year 2010. Well, we are not going that far but we deduce six fundamental issues that will continue to grab eyeballs in media and persistently pose challenges before policy makers – those that will add to the 2010 snowball quotient!
We totally sympathise with Nostradamus, even though quite a few of his predictions have been as close to reality as US is to Venezuela! It is terribly nerve racking and mentally exhausting to predict ...Read More




6.  A bloodstained decade...
[04/02/2010]  The world gets more and more vulnerable to the terrorism menace
Terror atrocity has emerged as a nightmare, causing unpardonable damage to life and property; be it among businesses, civilians, diplomats or governments. There were terror attacks earlier as well, bu...Read More