The presentation began with a story about a scientist who “thought why he thought” and how he went from pillar to post wondering whether he can end up thinking like Einstein if he got injected with more number of brain cells – the “neurons”.
All the metropolitan cities in India get their water supply from sources 100s of kilometers away. They get their perishable food supplies like vegetables, fruits from sources 10s of kilometers away. Per person power consumption for domestic uses like lighting, ventilation is showing a continuous increase. Do things have to be like this only? “No”- say a couple of individuals who with simple innovations have achieved self sufficiency in one or more of the above aspects and have become role models for sustainability initiatives. Some examples of individuals and their innovations that were acclaimed by media were discussed by Asha Kranthi Nandigam- a PhD research scholar working in Computational Neuroscience, in this talk.
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