{"id":436785,"date":"2021-09-18T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T05:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436785"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T06:07:18","slug":"2-indian-projects-among-15-finalists-for-prince-williams-earthshot-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2-indian-projects-among-15-finalists-for-prince-williams-earthshot-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Indian projects among 15 finalists for Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old Tamil Nadu schoolgirl\u2019s solar-powered ironing cart project and a Delhi entrepreneur\u2019s agricultural waste recycling concept were on Friday named among 15 finalists from hundreds of nominations across the world for the first-ever Earthshot Prize, launched by Britain\u2019s Prince William last year.<\/p>\n<p>Vinisha Umashankar made the cut within the \u201cClean Our Air\u201d category with her concept of a solar-powered clean alternative to the charcoal-powered street irons that press clothes for millions of Indians each day. Takachar, co-founded by Vidyut Mohan, has also been nominated in the same category for its cheap, small-scale, portable technology that converts crop residues into sellable bio-products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old Tamil Nadu schoolgirl\u2019s solar-powered ironing cart project and a Delhi entrepreneur\u2019s agricultural waste recycling concept were on Friday named among 15 finalists from hundreds of nominations across the world for the first-ever Earthshot Prize, launched by Britain\u2019s Prince William last year. Vinisha Umashankar made the cut within the \u201cClean Our Air\u201d category with her concept of a solar-powered clean alternative to the charcoal-powered street irons that press clothes for millions of Indians each day. Takachar, co-founded by Vidyut Mohan, has also been nominated in the same category for its cheap, small-scale, portable technology that converts crop residues into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}