Visionnaire et Réalisateur - Sustainability Advocate | Bamboo Boat Pioneer | Wind2Water Project Lead Reviving River Navigation with Repurposed Wind Turbine Blade Catamarans.
As the keynote speaker of the Technical session of the recently concluded 8th NE Green Summit at Itanagar, here are some of the conclusions I have drawn after participating in the event: 1. No matter how noble the idea behind the event, none of the discussions matter unless the policymakers and community leaders lend a patient ear to the domain experts, innovators and green tech entrepreneurs. 2. Cliché terms like attaining "Net Zero" or "Carbon Neutrality" are empty words unless providing definitive examples of technology or processes and their success stories along with the data. 3. Pickles and wine, no matter how good tasting, like cane baskets, no matter how intricately woven, are not examples of Innovation, Sustainability, Green-Tech or Circular Economy. 4. That some money has been raised by brick and mortar businesses masquerading as Startups, is neither an indicator of their success, the health of the ecosystem, nor commitment towards green tech or sustainability. 5. To the Pundits from Metropolises who love to "grace" such sessions as VIP Guests spouting drivel like "Oh, the North-east are the lungs of India," that we need to eat, sleep Bamboo and live in Bamboo Huts, or become completely organic, I will suggest they look around erstwhile lush hill stations like Shillong or Bomdila and decide which cancer has afflicted these lungs or to take a look at Sri Lanka and her organic experiment. (Regarding Bamboo, my team and I are designing and building advance Bamboo Biocomposite vessels like Trimarans and Catamarans, along with ultra light-weight and low-cost fishing and rescue boats. So, wanna make some Deep Impact Investment ??) Lastly, gauging by the photographs of me, that I seriously need to shed some weight. I think that is the most attainable short term sustainability goal I can strive for... #neindia #greensummit #sustainability #greentech #India #innovators
Environment Media Consultant
9moSpot on bro... There's a 'green' caucus dancing Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses spouting same clichés. The corporates send the same fogeys (probably HR selects them on the basis of least competency most gas power) to do the rounds, unless the show has 'you-know-who' for selfie points. The HEIs (Higher Education Institutes) have their own caucus and totem pole ... And boy o boy, you have to see the priggish deference for those on the top who block any original R&D idea/effort for obvious reasons. Sustainable development is their stock phrase, with nil effort. Last but not the least are the Government puff-ups. They have their own totem pole. One set of Neanderthals from the twice-born I Am Sorry brigade, and the other primitives from the Janta Ka Sewak mafia. So, my friend Ravi J. Deka, now that you have managed to penetrate, do what the BSF motto says: Thrust hard and deep!