#sustainable+development

[hope-for-the-planet]

India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun | Ember

Cheap electrotech is enabling India to industrialise without the long fossil detour taken by China and the West.

From the article:

India is forging a better path to the electrotech future of energy. Cheap solar and batteries are enabling India to develop without the long fossil detour taken by the West and China. When we compare India today with China at equivalent income levels ($11,000 PPP in 2012), several observations emerge: Rapid solar deployment. In 2012, China had negligible solar generation. In 2025, solar accounted for 9% of India’s electricity generation, up from half a percent a decade earlier. India has a powerful new tool to scale cheap power, and it is using it to spectacular effect. Much lower coal use. Indian per capita coal generation, at 1 MWh, is roughly 40% of China’s level in 2012. Coal demand is approaching its peak and is very unlikely to follow China’s subsequent ramp-up to around 4 MWh per person. Rapid growth in EVs. In 2012, China had almost no electric vehicles on the road. By mid-2025, EVs accounted for around 5% of car sales in India and the country is the global leader in electric three-wheeler sales. Much lower oil demand for transport. India’s per capita road oil demand, at 96 litres, is about half of China’s level in 2012 and is close to peaking. India is not going to rescue the oil industry. A similar rapid electrification pathway. India’s electrification rate is nearly 20%, comparable to China’s level in 2012, and is growing relentlessly by around five percentage points per decade.

[wachinyeya]

Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power — And That’s a Big Deal for Our Energy

Thirty years later, old-school solar panels are still delivering on their promise.

August 29, 2025

In the late 1980s, when Switzerland was just beginning to experiment with solar power, engineers bolted a few shiny panels onto rooftops, mountain stations, and even utility-scale farms. They probably didn’t expect those panels to still be humming along more than three decades later. But that’s exactly what a new study shows. Researchers from Switzerland, Austria, and Germany tracked six photovoltaic systems installed between 1987 and 1993 across the country’s dramatically different climates — temperate valleys, snowy mountain huts, and high-altitude research stations perched above the clouds. After more than 30 years, those panels are still reliably producing electricity.

[ourpalebluehome]

🍲🚮♻️ “Garbage cafes” across India are tackling plastic waste and hunger! In these cafes springing up around the country thanks to a larger sanitation initiative, people can collect and donate plastic litter in exchange for a hot meal. For many, the cafes mean the difference between food and an empty stomach, and they have already had an impact on the amount of plastic waste going to landfill – in one city, landfill-bound plastic waste fell from 5.4 tons per year in 2019 to just two tons per year in 2024!

Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish

Garbage cafes are springing up across India. The BBC visits the city of Ambikapur to find out how much impact they can really have on plasti

[reality-detective]

UN & WEF - Sustainable development control plan means.

Corporate control of all Earth’s inventory.

▪️Land

▪️Water

▪️Minerals

▪️Plants

▪️Animals

▪️Construction

▪️Production

▪️Food

▪️Energy

▪️Information

▪️Humans

Corporations & NGO’s supersede you. 🤔

[maracujatangerine]

Earthrise and Earthset

I think this is something worth thinking about.

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, this picture called Earthrise was taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders.

It has been called the most iconic environmental photograph ever taken. I remember learning about it during my university studies, how it has been instrumental in shaping our view of the Earth and our role in the universe, how small and fragile our home in the universe actually is, and how all of us humans - and all living organisms that we know of - literally are in the same life boat.

This week the Artemis ll crew captured this photo on the 6th of April 2026. The name of this photograph is Earthset.

I do get that the new name is a callback to the first photo, and that the sunrise and sunset references accurately describe the actual movements of the heavenly spheres, so to say.

Still, I can’t help to think that it also says something about these respective moments. The optimism - or lack thereof - of looking towards the future, the way the first photo actually taught us something new, the way environmental issues increasingly are politicised, and how anti-intellectual and anti-science views are muddling what should be common goals in keeping this - our one common world - a sustainable place for both humans and all other living things to thrive.

I think following the Artemis II mission has been amazing and hopeful. It is a stark contrast to the general craziness of the moment. I wish we didn’t need a reminder, but we clearly do.

This is our one world and we all share it.

[lily0819]

A big step forward for clean energy in the PA. ACPMember CCRSolar has completed construction of its 24 MW Erie Solar project in Erie, PA. The solar site will generate an estimated $2.4 million in tax revenues for Erie County over its 40-year lifespan. Take a look at this month’s project celebration with senatorlaughlin.

[fennopunk]

My parents: Why are you so into this "solarpunk", global issues and environment?

Me, remembering the Sustainable Development posters I got from them as a child: ...are you for fucking real?