A white collar professional working in investment banking decides to lead a more eco-friendly lifestyle  One of the activities he decides to follow is to climb up the stairs of his office, instead of using the elevator. The next day, determined to use the stairs,...

One fine day, the local coal power plant sees about one hundred activists protesting against it and asking the CEO to stop generating power using coal. The CEO tries to reason with the protestors but to no avail. After some discussions with his senior team, he directs...

A nation is considering putting up a nuclear power plant and is seeking comments from localities located close to the proposed location of the plant At a local township meeting, the town administrator asks if there was anyone at all who would be crazy enough to have a...

A guest to a house, a high tech researcher in biology, is proudly explaining to his hosts how his work is trying to produce food purely from air and water.  He goes on to explain how his technology extracts CO2 from air and hydrogen from water and combines these...

A corporate CEO gives an order that everyone should climb stairs instead of using the elevator, starting immediately. Within an hour, he gets a Work from Home request from all the employees. He counts and finds that only one employee had not sent in the WFH request....

A chap just recently read that just one long distance return flight trip will emit as much CO2 as a 1 ton air conditioner running for eight hours a day will emit for one year. He had just planned on taking his entire family of six members on a fun trip to the other...

Jack, a notorious local robber, breaks into a shop selling household and fashion goods at night. After stealing a few items, he comes across a division that sold recycled and upcycled products. He was not sure whether these were valuable, so he just checked their...

A city administration decides to significantly enhance bicycling by its citizens. To this end, it provides a free bicycle to every household in the city. In the first month, bicycling indeed increased tremendously in the city. But from the second month onwards, the...

An expert on urban ecosystems, based on his research, comes to the conclusion that the generally held theory that climate change will result in the drowning of many islands is incorrect. He is in fact so confident that, when his friend Joe asked him if it was safe to...

A student attends a session on concentrating solar power in which he learns that if sunlight were concentrated enough through the use of mirrors or lenses, one could obtain temperatures of over 500 degrees C. Impressed, he succeeds in designing a simple but powerful...