Tribute to our Environmental Hero

Let us salute the person who has invented the “Sono arsenic filter” which is a boon for a huge chunk of population living in arsenic contaminated areas of Eastern India and Bangladesh. Abul Hussam, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Hussam was born in Kushtia, [...]

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Delhi Government Initiative for Students from Eco-Club Schools

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Rising Public Awareness on Solid Waste Management

HUDA faces residents’ ire over waste dumping

Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN

Gurgaon: Fed up with the growing heap of garbage near their residential premises on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road, the locals have decided to file a PIL against the administration for not working towards operationalising the solid waste dumping ground near Bandhwadi even though the [...]

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Rising Public Awareness on Solid Waste Management

HUDA faces residents’ ire over waste dumping

Dipak Kumar Dash | TNN

Gurgaon: Fed up with the growing heap of garbage near their residential premises on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road, the locals have decided to file a PIL against the administration for not working towards operationalising the solid waste dumping ground near Bandhwadi even though the [...]

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Save the giant creatures “Elephant”

  
 
(Photo Anandabazar Patrika 25th October 2007) 
 
An adult female elephant has been electrocuted by the high tension electric wire in the jungle of the North Bengal. About 26 elephant died out of electrocution this year till October.

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China’s Three Gorges Dam

 (Photo source www. Wikipedia .com )

Three Georges Dam, in China, the world’s biggest hydropower project is an 21st century’s engineering marvel, has been insistently promoted as a solution for recurring  flood on the Yangtze River, and a source of hydroelectric power for the nation.  However a source of People’s Daily said officials at a recent [...]

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Revival of Indigenous rice varieties in West Bengal

Undivided Bengal had a rich flora and fauna. In case of rice, once upon a time there was about 4,800 different verities of rice were cultivated in Bengal. Since the last forty years and especially after the “Green Revolution” with the increase of mixed verities hybrid rice cultivation all these indigenous verities of rice have [...]

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Book Review – Globalization’s New Wars: SEED, WATER AND LIFE FORMS by Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva,Globalization’s New Wars: SEED, WATER AND LIFE FORMS by Vandana Shiva, New Delhi, feminist fine print, 2005, 120 pp. Rs 250/-, ISBN: 81-88965-17-0
Vandana Shiva’s Globalization’s New Wars: SEED, WATER AND LIFE FORMS is an attempt to depict the impacts of globalisation on ecology and rural economy of India. She gives a  detailed account of [...]

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Environmental Heroes

 

Mikhail Gorbachev
In its October issue Time magazine have given the list of forty heroes, which have been selected by the magazine from the field of Environment on the basis of their work, which gives voice to Mother Earth. It includes Mikhail Gorbachev,  David Attenborough, South Korean politician and construction chief executive Lee Myung Bak, this year’s [...]

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Towards Green Villages

 

A workshop on how to make villages sustainable
New Delhi, November 19-23, 2007
Questions we will raise…
Why do some villages remain poor despite execution of development programmes? Why are certain villages prosperous? Why is the high growth in the Indian economy not translating into prosperous villages? Why is the gross national produce (GNP) not an indicator of [...]

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