by drmu | Dec 28, 2014 | Democracy, Energy, MID, Open letters, Social justice
“Power to the People!”
We ask Ivan Collendavalloo to scrap CT Power and make the switch from coal to renewables. We propose an innovative strategy of using biogas from waste and energy crops to balance the variability of the sun and wind.
by drmu | Aug 30, 2012 | Energy, MID
“BLACKOUTS!” This is the threat that some quarters are using to argue the case for more coal-fired electricity production, i.e. CT Power. Environmentalists and local residents are protesting against this but have yet to present viable alternatives. What is...
by drmu | Jul 28, 2012 | Energy, MID
During MID week at the University of Mauritius in March 2009, Nissan presented its plan for our island to be the 7th nation in the world where the Leaf, their new electric car, would be available for sale. In February 2012, we became the first country in the southern...
by drmu | May 21, 2012 | Crusade, Mafia at work, MID, Name and shame
When the Prime Minister announced that he and Joël de Rosnay had conceived Maurice Ile Durable during a brief encounter in Paris, did he imagine that the gestation period would last 3 years 9 months? Finally, the long-awaited MID Strategy is about to be born… Or...
by drmu | May 10, 2012 | MID, Name and shame
Overview MID was launched in 2008 in Paris and 2009 in Mauritius, promising to fundamentally change Mauritian society and its impact on Nature in four major spheres: economic, social, political and environmental. A visioning exercise was conducted in 2010 to capture...
by drmu | Mar 7, 2012 | Crusade, Mafia at work, MID, Name and shame
The Empires Strike Back A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… A tiger-class merchant ship was making its way with the rest of the fleet towards the Golden Dawn of the New Age. Without the added weight of weaponry, it was one of the fastest craft around,...
