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October 15 If they can afford Iraq, they can bloody well afford this!Gore’s challenge for US to convert to renewable energy needs to be seriously considered As I was listening to Al Gore on the phone, I was thinking: “Uh-oh,  naysayers will have a field day with this one.” The former VP was giving me an advanced briefing on the speech he delivered on Thursday, calling on US to behave like a great nation and actually do something real about its self-destructive, ultimately unsustainable reliance on carbon-based fuel for its 21st-century energy needs. “I’m going to issue a strategic challenge that the US set a goal of getting 100% of our electricity from renewable resources and carbon-constrained fuels within 10 years,” he said.“One hundred percent?” I said. “One hundred percent.” Gore’s focus is primarily on solar, wind and geothermal energy. His belief is that a dramatic, wholesale transition to these sources is not just doable, but essential. My view is that Gore is offering us the kind of vision and sense of urgency that’s so lacking in the presidential campaigns. But the tendency in a society that is skeptical, if not phobic, about anything progressive has been to dismiss his large ideas and wise counsel, as George H.W. Bush once did by deriding him as “ozone man.” .....Continue Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008 An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist). Read also :-
October 07 Alliance shatteredWill the CCI finally decide if the firms are truly guilty? Cartelization- an issue which the  Government has been addressing for quite sometime, an issue which has created quite a furor off late… What with the cement industry fiercely combating the allegations of alliance that the Central Government is entrusting upon them. While the cement Industry is justifying that of the Rs.14-15 rise in cost of each cement bag only Rs.5-7 is passed on to the consumers, the Central Government is indicting the firms heavily. In fact in December 2007, the MRTP Commission accused 44 cement firms including the L&T, Birla and ACC of setting exorbitant price of cement by resorting to cartelization. However, it is anybody’s guess as to why an issue so dubious in nature is being addressed by the MRTP which itself is in a state of dissolution. However, after inefficiency, Competition Commission of India (CCI) had been conceived in October 2003 with the objective of being a more organised body for addressing cartels and monopoly like behaviour, it remains ineffective as it has not yet been notified by the centre. ...........ContinueSource : IIPM Editorial, 2008 An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist). Read also :-
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