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Hita Unnikrishnan, a Masters student in Life Sciences at the Mount Carmel College in Bangalore and a British Council Environmental Champion, believes that climate change has to be addressed at the ...individual level.Hita is a strong believer in local, renewable ways of producing energy and has worked on decentralised models of waste management and power generation.She takes us to the thriving Indian industrial cities of Bangalore and Chennai, where she encounters significant opposition to her views but is determined to prove that localised solutions can work in the cities and not just in rural villages.
Hita Unnikrishnan, a Masters student in Life Sciences at the Mount Carmel College in Bangalore and a British Council Environmental Champion, believes that climate change has to be addressed at the ...individual level.Hita is a strong believer in local, renewable ways of producing energy and has worked on decentralised models of waste management and power generation.She takes us to the thriving Indian industrial cities of Bangalore and Chennai, where she encounters significant opposition to her views but is determined to prove that localised solutions can work in the cities and not just in rural villages.
| Series: | Climate connection |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 2009-12-03 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC World Service |
| Published: | 2009 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:26:31 |
| Note: | BBC World Service version |
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| Producer: | Julian Siddall |
| Presenter: | Gareth Mitchell |
| Contributors: | Gareth Mitchell; Hita Unnikrishnan |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Production number: | AUDA747B |
| Available to public: | no |
