A Marxist approach to understanding ecology
Two seminal books, John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York’s The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth and John Bellamy Foster’s The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
Personalities
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Search for the lesser evil
A Down To Earth survey of the civil society shows that when it comes to the environment, no political party in India has anything substantive to offer. But the Indian National Congress emerges as less objectionable than the Bharatiya Janata Party
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Silent protest
Social activist Anna Hazare s protest against corruption
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Greening the industry
The Centre for Science and Environment <font class='UCASE'>CSE </font> releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud <font class='UCASE'>CSE </font> efforts and call for a change in the mindset of industry captains
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Amartya Sen right prize for the wrong work?
Sen s manner of addressing poverty issues has left many questions unanswered
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Anna vindicated
The anti corruption department raids the houses of a former Maharashtra minister, who put social activist Anna Hazare behind bars for accusing him of corruption <br>
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Sensitive economics
Anil Agarwal s article, The poverty of Amartya Sen , publised in the December 15, 1999 issue of Down To Earth , has drawn a number of responses. Here are a few samples:
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Nuclear arms race will trigger nuclear terrorism
An interview with Tilman A Ruff, Australian head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). At Jadugoda in East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, he observed a human settlement perilously close to the mines of Uranium Corporation of India.
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The legendary Gandhian
Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, is remembered, on his first death anniversary, for his achievements in the field of urban management
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ONLINE
www.teqs.net ENERGISING THE WORLD British energy expert David Fleming has been one of the strongest proponents of energy rationing. "The alternative (to the current energy crisis) is to
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Own your power
Eleven years ago, Pathampara, a 90-minute drive from Kannur, made headlines when it stopped petitioning the government for electricity and instead began generating its own power from a very small facility using the flow of a local stream to run a turbine.