It’s called The Carbon Footprint and the challenge is to make yours smaller. At least that’s what those hoping to curb the climatic change say. A carbon footprint represents the impact of an individual, household or business on the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

All of us have studied about how electric energy can be produced from wind, the sun, sea waves and other renewable sources. But for most of us, these have been limited only to science experiments at school. So can this childlike fascination of ours be used to overcome our current Electricity deficit?

The melting of ice caps, the change of gulf streams, erratic monsoons, floods and droughts – these are one of the many things that threaten to erode the benefits accrued by mankind. All these natural calamities owe their origin not to God almighty, but to another catastrophic phenomenon; Global Warming.