{"id":1777,"date":"2002-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/17\/2002-03-17-pune-botanist-bags-world-s-biggest-green-prize\/"},"modified":"2002-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-17T12:00:00","slug":"2002-03-17-pune-botanist-bags-world-s-biggest-green-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/17\/2002-03-17-pune-botanist-bags-world-s-biggest-green-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Pune Botanist Bags World&#8217;s Biggest &#8220;Green&#8221; Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/DOCREP\/003\/X9192E\/x9192e04.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND., March 14, 2002: An Indian botanist with a passion for converting the tough, traditionally useless leaves of the sugar cane plant into fuel has won the world&#8217;s largest renewable energy and conservation prize and a cool US$50,000 to fund his work in rural Maharashtra. Within hours of winning the Ashden Awards, Pune-based botanist Dr. A. D. Karve told The Times of India the prize would help his pioneering work &#8220;because Indians only pay attention and give respect to an idea once the West praises it.&#8221; The West, apparently, is over the moon about the sheer simplicity and dogged determination of Karve&#8217;s idea, which offers an Indian solution to a uniquely Indian problem, that of providing a clean source of renewable energy with the waste materials to hand. &#8220;He&#8217;s doing absolutely wonderful things,&#8221; raved Maya Vaughan of the Ashden Awards, which offer crucial support to developing countries like India for indigenous ways of generating and using green fuel. Karve&#8217;s clean fuel beat off tough competition from Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya, each of which suggested new ways of using solar energy to improve their people&#8217;s lives. The method, described at &#8220;source&#8221; above, chars sugar cane trash in an oven without igniting it. The resulting &#8220;char&#8221; is made into charcoal briquettes as good as any. The method isn&#8217;t especially efficient, but since the trash is free, it is economically viable.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND., March 14, 2002: An Indian botanist with a passion for converting the tough, traditionally useless,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}