Non Toxic Vision

India wins solar power funding

This article was published in the Financial Times, March 22, 2010:

by Joe Leahy

..."The International Finance Corporation is investing in India's first commercially viable solar power project, giving a vote of confidence to ambitions to develop the technology there. Azure Power Private is India's first megawatt-scale solar power developer, and the IFC is set to invest USD 10 Million. .... India is engaged in a vast expansion of power infrastructure to drive its rapidly growing economy and aid its 1,14bn population, more of half of which do not have access to electricity. The country is seeking to increase its solar power generation capacity from near zero to 20,000 megawatt by 2022. The Azure project sets a precedent in India for connecting to the national grid. .... Connected to the electricity grid the plant supplies power to 20,000 people in 32 villages  in the Amritsar district of Punjab. ..."

Pig Business - the movie

Tracy Worcester's exploration into the origin of 'cheap' pork, also used in most bacon ham and sausages.

Huge intensive factories mistreat and overcrowd the animals, emit toxic gasses that sicken workers and neighbors, destroy rural communities and generate swine flu and pig MRSA.

Watch more parts of the movie on YouTube

More info also on available on her website: www.pigbusiness.co.uk