First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
The move by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) of endorsing Tropicana juices and Quaker Oats has invited widespread criticism. Calling it an issue of ethics, Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said, "We are clear that it's completely wrong. In fact it's legally wrong. The Prevention of Food Adulteration (PFA) Act clearly says that no medical association can endorse a product. There is an issue of ethics here, doctors' associations all over the world have always been resisting to get into such endorsements. How can Pepsi ask IMA about it."
During super dense crush load condition, 570 passengers travel in a coach and that generates 10 cubic metre per hour (m3/hr) of CO2- Report of Nidhi Jamwal Mumbai's suburban railway network may earn some brownie points in its efforts to overhaul the system to make it energy-efficient and travel-friendly. New braking and duct systems have been introduced in some coaches. But grey areas remain.
Environmentalists have warned that tropical cyclone Nargis, which has left more than 20,000 persons dead and 40,000 missing and thousands homeless, is not just a natural disaster but a man-made disaster because of climate change. Nargis, the green brigade says, happened because "the rich have failed to contain greenhouse gas emissions necessary for their growth'.
Did the Nobel Prize committee make a mistake when it gave the 2007 Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former US Vice President Al Gore?
Response of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) to the Comments issued by the Government of Chhattisgarh following the Raipur release of CSE
As part of the various initiatives under the International year of sanitation, the Department of Drinking Water Supply organized a National Workshop on sustainable sanitation on 19th, 20th May, 2008 at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
To get the organic certification, I needed a letter from the forest department simply stating that I was not contravening any state law. Actually, my control parameters were more strict than the department's. After travelling in Himachal Pradesh to visit friends, I had an idea to export wild mushrooms to the UK. Not really crazy when you consider how much Europeans love their wild mushrooms and how abundantly they grow in Himachal.
Microsoft is the most familiar term in the proprietary software industry. The company's penetration in people's minds is so deep that it is often considered the only player in the market. It is even mistaken as a software. But this scenario could be changing. The world over free and open source software (FOSS) is being adopted as an alternative. But, in India, though states such as Kerala are fully converted, the centre lags behind.
Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan has criticised the statement of Sunita Narayan,director,Centre for Science and Enviornment. She had given a clean chit to the BRT corridor and termed it as useful for Delhi. BJP MLA Vijat Jolly has also demanded the scrapping of the corridor project ,saying that it has created traffic snarls in South Delhi. Vardhan said that the way in which thousands of trees have been felled and many lives have been lost, dozen have been injured, the Delhi government should stop the construction of six other corridors.
Transmilenio. That is the name of a success story told daily by 1.4 million people in Colombia's capital Bogota. These people are the commuters of the bus rapid transit (BRT) system there, which has 850 buses covering 85 km. It has reduced the travel time by 32 per cent, accidents by 90 per cent and gas emissions by 40 per cent.