We are living in the era of information technology where everyone is surrounded by appliances and equipment running on electrical energy. With each passing day, owing to the innovations and increasing population; the need for energy is also growing rapidly, and a major section of communities around India are suffering from electricity unavailability. They are not getting proper clean cooking facilities and are compelled to use kerosene and firewood which affects the living conditions of women and children, degrading their quality of life. The per capita energy consumption in India in the global index is still very low as compared to other developing countries. When we talk about carbon footprints, we always think about coal burning for electricity generation whereas 33% carbon footprint contribution comes from transportation and vehicle carbon emission.

(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/09/clean-coal-wont-be-commercially-viable-before-2030-energy-analysis-says).

Speculating present conditions of climate change and environment degradation, the condition of air is deteriorating on a regular basis because of carbon & other harmful emission gasses. Entire ecological balance is getting affected as many plants species have vanished and are also becoming endangered with each passing day. Rise in temperature has gone beyond extent as last summer in 2016 highest temperature recorded was 51.2 degrees near Alwar, Rajasthan. The graph has been increasing as we have faced drastic weather change.  Last year in discussion & outcomes in Conference on Climate Change at Paris 2016, every country has committed to limit temperature increase to less than 2 degrees. To achieve this, serious & hard steps should be taken by government & corporate policy makers. Also, a sense of ownership should be undertaken by us as a global citizen for taking care for own local sustainability for the sake of future generation.

When we see energy transitions in Indian context for last 15 years; we can easily observe that by government intervention & support from UN we have somehow improved integration of green energy sources from 2% to 12%. But when we observe & visualize in the global context, some countries have reached around 100%, and this has been achieved not only by direct government intervention but also due to new innovative social enterprises on local level working towards both services & awareness of green energy. Also, citizens of these countries have taken individual ownership on this. 72% of our electricity production comes from the coal-based plants which are very less efficient and there is no proper mechanism for waste treatment and waste management

(http://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/sunpower-is-for-free-29459).

We have not fully recognized and implemented potential of electric vehicles in transportation domain. Government & Corporate have to boost up their interventions, own megawatt grid set ups. But vision 2022 & 2030 lag behind and this looks like a mirage at this point of time.

When we have to see our future prospect and see our vision for solving energy crisis & sustainability by 2030, we have to take care of both conventional and green energy sources, as 80% of our energy requirement is based on conventional energy source from the coal-based plant. So to reduce dependency on conventional energy source we have to switch to efficient coal plants including waste management like fly ash treatment etc. Also, we have to see, invent, and innovate new fuel conversion mechanisms from coal to liquid, coal to other bio-carbons, and coal to carbon gasification. In the green energy, we have to look out for innovation in the frame of efficient solar Photo Voltaic as 4th generation solar PV and create an infrastructure to establish manufacture of solar PVs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/07/solar-power-growth-worldwide-us-china-uk-europe

Again we have to look into agriculture intervention as it is our 3rd largest energy consumption. We are using diesel pumps for irrigation purposes, so there is need of solar irrigation pump, and efficient pump must be available to every farmer such that it can be helpful both ways in reducing input cost & saving energy. On the transportation intervention, we have reached only 1% when it comes to using electric vehicles. As transportation output contributes largely towards carbon footprint increment, so there is need of innovations and inventions at the local level. Also, big stake comes on storage devices as the cost of the battery, but for last two years lithium ions batteries have taken significant boom as these are efficient and affordable. We have to look into scaling up local level social enterprise and infrastructure support from government & local bodies.

Keeping these concerns at the core, “Teach For Green”, a Non-Profit organization has been developed. It is an initiative which not only aims to create awareness in the semi-urban and rural classes of communities by conducting “Do It Yourself” (DIY) Green energy workshop but also develop their skills towards improving their lives as well as the environment in an unprecedented manner. This workshop is designed in manner with simplified practical examples which are happening in our surrounding in relationship with green and clean energy (Solar, Wind etc.) applications. Also, participants get to design their own customized structure (Solar Lamps, Toys, Mobile Charger, Solar House Kits etc.) from recyclable materials, which sparks in them a sense of innovation and entrepreneurship. Overall, the workshop aims in providing a foundation for the inclusive growth of individual with a sense of purpose towards energy, environment and society

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