AU Optronics
Saving Water Helps Environment – and Bottom Line
To cope with Taiwan's uncertain water supply, AU Optronics has made water conservation an integral part of its flat panel fabs. How have they approached the problem and what's the real payoff?
BRICs: India Innovates
Aravind: Efficiency in a Battle with Blindness
India has the largest population of blind people in the world. Aravind Eye Hospitals offer free operations for poor people, yet by maximizing efficiency can still turn a profit of nearly US$8 million a year.
BRICs: India Innovates
Tata's Nano Ambitions
The ultra-affordable Nano means ordinary Indian families need no longer brave the rains squeezed together on a motorbike, and it may help Tata Motors ride the energy-conservation wave into Europe and North America.
Agriculture
Water Worries – What Can Be Done?
Prior to Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan's agricultural land was bone dry. But the gods overcompensated with a massive deluge. What can the agricultural sector do to survive such extreme climatic variations?
Eyewitness Account
Hard Rains Fall
Typhoon Morakot pounds southern Taiwan, and a CommonWealth Magazine reporter, having visited just days before to investigate the area's drought, returns to find the once parched earth buried under churning waves.
Taiwan's Climatic Extremes
Fatal Water
With the arrival of Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan suddenly swung from drought to flooding. How are the woes of water altering life in Taiwan, and what can Taiwan do about it?