Cow dung inspired Cyril Mathias to be a green technopreneur
(WorldNews Environment)

Watching nuns converting cow dung to cooking gas in his school, and his dad generating hydroelectricity at their rubber plantation, played a key role in shaping Cyril John Mathias into who he is today. Growing up in the famous coffee town of Chikmagalur in India, the green technopreneur attended school there. `The nuns had cows to cater to their dairy needs and, instead of letting the cow dung go to waste, they collected it to produce biogas,` says Cyril, 46, adding that biogas is rich in methane and is used in most parts of India and Pakistan as a renewable energy source. `An interesting part was that the school curriculum back then had a subject called moral studies and part of it was...