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
India
-
Pollution clouds threaten glaciers, health: UN
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the UN reported Thursday.
-
Up to their necks in it
Despite good laws and even better intentions, India causes as much pollution as any rapidly industrialising poor country A HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual. He touches the sacred water. He dips himself in it. He cups it in his hands and drinks it.
-
Reducing pollution good for profit
Companies will find it makes sense to reduce pollution and adopt good governance
-
Taxing polluters
Without question, public interest is frightfully undermined in a state where law enforcers themselves largely subvert the rule of law. On the face of it, India has an ironclad legal structure to combat any threat to the environment: as many as 420 Acts, rules, notifications and provisos have been legislated to safeguard the environment and prosecute the polluter.
-
Guidelines for development of location specific stringent standards
The existing legislation though covers adequate provision empowering the State Boards to prescribe stringent emission/ discharge standards while issuing the consent under the Water Act/Air Act, the judgments presently made by the SPCBs appear to be based on their respective experiences in qualitative terms for specifying stringent standards on a case to case basis.
-
Govt zeroes in on 24 most polluted areas
New Delhi: Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said the government had identified 24 critically-polluted areas in the country and was trying to focus on these
-
Environmental and human health risks associated with the end-of-Life treatment of electrical and electronic equipment
This review aims to summarize the existing knowledge on the environmental and occupational health risks of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) recycling and other end-of-life options.
-
Clean business
A new generation, of responsible entrepreneurs, that shares the common passion and dream of making our earth a carbon free and a safer place to live in, is taking the lead today. They are setting examples for others to follow by starting up their own ventures in the clean technology space. Priya C Nair chats up with a few such enthusiastic entrepreneurs
-
The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review
On December 3 1984, more than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killing at least 3,800 people and causing significant morbidity and premature death for many thousands more. The company involved in what became the worst industrial accident in history immediately tried to dissociate itself from legal responsibility.
-
Sorabjee slams N-liability Bill
New Delhi: In the 25th year of the world