The scorching sun on the hot Sunday afternoon did not deter the enthusiastic Mumbaikars from going to the Farmers’ Market, to attend ‘Radical Power’, a workshop on solar energy, organized by the Academy of Earth Sustainability and the Kidsstoppress at Maharashtra Nature Park. Kids and adults, spent their time building solar ovens, learning about the abundance of solar energy, and how it can be used to cook food at home in a healthy and an environment-friendly way. Beating the

In Nature, the concept of ‘waste’ doesn’t exist, as nature recycles and reuses all of its resources. Waste products produced by one process or organism become the raw materials for the other. Very soon, waste won’t exist at Maharshi Dayanand (M.D.) College, either, because the students from AES’ ‘Ecopreneur program’ have launched a campaign to turn their waste into wealth. They are calling the campaign ‘Wastilization,’ to emphasize the point that all waste can be utilized in