Recovery Act Tax Credits to Enable More Than $7 Billion in New Manufacturing Projects and Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs Washington, 8 January 2010- Today at the White House, President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. One hundred eighty three projects in 43 states will create tens of thousands of high quality clean energy jobs and the domestic manufacturing of advanced clean energy technologies including solar, wind and efficiency and energy management technologies. (…) This effort, along with other Recovery Act investments, will drive significant growth in the renewable energy and clean technology manufacturing sectors and give the United States the ability to lead globally in these markets. The investment tax credits, worth up to thirty percent of each planned project, will leverage private capital for a total investment of nearly $7.7 billion in high-tech manufacturing in the United States. The projects announced today address the broad spectrum of manufacturing capabilities needed to support a robust clean energy economy. The projects were competitively selected through a rigorous merit review process and the companies chosen say they will create more than 17,000 jobs in some of the fastest growing parts of our economy. (…) http://www.energy.gov/news2009/8501.htm
Author: yazdi
The American Dream Downsized for Indians
…….30 percent of the returnees are green card holders and American citizens who are going back to escape the economic downturn and start new companies in India at a lower cost and enjoy a better standard of living with their savings…..
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f7e5ea998080cee833a0791c2d03e60e
National Tourism Awards 2008-09
| Entries are invited for different categories – Hotels, Travel Agents, Tour Operators, States/UTs, National Monuments / Parks, Publications, Website, Film Makers and many more …
Nominations are also invited from stakeholders for the award “Pride of India – Atithi Devo Bhava” which was instituted last year. In addition to the award introduced this year for “Best Civic Management of A Tourist Destination in India”, another new category “Best Wellness Centre” has been introduced. Additional sub-categories for in-bound tour operators / travel agents and tourist transport operators are also introduced . For more details please visit our website. LAST DATE FOR RECEIVING ENTRIES EXTENDED TILL 18th JANUARY, 2010. For detailed guidelines, log on to www.incredibleindia.org or www.tourism.gov.in |
Bharti Airtel Innovation Fund
Bharti Airtel Innovation Fund (BAIF or the Fund) is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the field of telecommunication services. The objective of the Fund is to give opportunities to budding entrepreneurs with a vision to build businesses based on innovation . The Fund has an initial corpus of Rs 200 crores. BAIF provides seed money to entrepreneurs who may not otherwise be able to access funds to realize their dreams.
Open Innovation
“Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. [This paradigm] assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as they look to advance their technology.”
Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm
OpenInnovation.net is a portal for the latest research and practice regarding the open innovation. The open innovation paradigm originated in the 2003 book of the same name by Dr. Henry Chesbrough of U.C. Berkeley.
Tata Swach – Water Purifier
World’s most cost-effective water purifier improves affordability of safe drinking water for millions of Indian families
Pure water is one of the world’s most precious natural resources. With much of India’s population denied access to safe drinking water, the delivery of safe, convenient and affordable water purification is one of the biggest social and technological challenges in the country today.
Responding to this challenge, Tata Chemicals unveils ‘Tata Swach’ – a unique and innovative water purifier. Requiring no energy or running water to operate, an early version of the product first saw the light of day as part of the Tsunami relief efforts. Today, the replaceable filter-based product, which is entirely portable and based on low-cost natural ingredients, delivers safe drinking water at a new market benchmark of Rs30 per month for a family of five.
Goldman Sachs pledges $500m. to develop entrepreneurs
By Ian Wilhelm 17 November 2009 – The investment bank Goldman Sachs has pledged $500-million to help develop small businesses and train entrepreneurs across the country. In addition, the New York company has recruited a high-profile team of advisers, including financier Warren Buffett, to guide the philanthropic effort. …….. the company says the small-business program has been in development for almost a year and is modeled after its 10,000 Women Initiative, which helps educate female entrepreneurs in 18 countries. As part of the new effort, Goldman will provide $300-million in grants and loans to nonprofit groups, known as community-development financial institutions, that provide capital and noncash-assistance to businesses in neighborhoods often not served by banks. (…) The rest of the massive commitment will support scholarships for small-business owners to attend classes at community colleges, universities, and other educational institutions. http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10199
For more details on the program – Click Here
Going Green – Small Changes, Big Impact
What Does Go Green Mean? Green can mean many different things to different people. For some, it means simply environmentally friendly and to others means living a life that is not dangerous to the health of people or animals
When you Go Green you only use green house products that are healthy for the environment and include no toxins, you recycle to help save land fills, and you do everything possible to live healthy and reduce the impact on our earth. By living green and going green you reduce any negative impact on the planet in all possible ways.
The truth is that everything single thing we do every day has an impact on the planet — good or bad. The good news is that as an individual you have the power to control most of your choices and, therefore, the impact you create: from where you live to what you buy, eat, and use to light your home to where and how you vacation, to how you shop, you can have global impact
We Believe in Everyone should live in an Eco friendly home!
Poison On Your Plate ?
Where are we leading to ? Watch this scary video to learn what Genetic Modified (GM) Foods can do to us !
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Making profits from poverty ?
Micro-finance institutions on a looting spree: making profits from poverty
Poverty has literally become a big and organised business. If you are educated, and looking for a profitable business enterprise, and more so if you are a non-resident Indian and want to translocate to India and still make millions, micro-finance offers you the right avenue.
There can be no better business opportunity than starting a micro-finance institution with assured returns and 100 per cent loan recovery. You can even think of trading on the stock exchange after a couple of years. And still more importantly, you can hold your head high and claim that you are helping the poor to come out of the poverty trap. You don’t have to feel ashamed and morally guilty. The elite in the society have knowingly (or unknowingly) given you a license to loot.
Click Here to read more from Devinder Sharma’s blog – an interesting and well stated point of view
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