Hope to video
AN AUSTRALIAN primary school's programme on environmental education is now available on video. Hope for Tomorrow is an informative, yet lively program, and is available with: Seven Dimensions 8
AN AUSTRALIAN primary school's programme on environmental education is now available on video. Hope for Tomorrow is an informative, yet lively program, and is available with: Seven Dimensions 8
MURPHY'S oft-proven first law -- "If something can go wrong, it will" -- is something which appears to have been given the go-by, on their fast-forward to striking paydirt, by the decisionmakers at
The raging controversy over the regressive draft Forest Bill has dumped the onus of defending it on minister of state for environment and forests Kamal Nath. But surprisingly, in the face of a public outcry, Nath dismisses the draft as "only a piece of
IN THE face of mounting public criticism of the Union ministry of environment and forests' draft Forest Bill, environment minister Kamal Nath's quick sidestep to dismiss the document as a "non-paper"
People's rights over forests are legally unassailable
OVER the past decade, "social forestry" has become a catchword among the policymakers, environmentalists and development professionals. However, it has not made much headway in becoming a people's
READ this carefully and between the lines: "British Nuclear Fuels (BNF) has just lost a multimillion pound German contract for its Thorp reprocessing plant because of pressures from the anti-nuclear
CAMERAS have reduced the world to a global village. The mechanically and electronically reproduced images flowing from the barrels of their lenses are more powerful than the bullets that flowed from
THIS state-of-the-art report on women and sustainable development, supported by INSTRAW (United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women) is an outcome of
FOUR related phenomena threaten to increase the water crisis in the 21st century: a natural upper limit to the availability of fresh water; increasing population; pollution; and delay in completing
The Forest Bill can be used to preserve our verdant national wealth
In the race to make a fast buck from <i>Jurassic Park, </i>Spielberg lost a cinematic shot at recreating the complex ecosystem where dinosaurs ruled Earth
JONATHAN LASH heads the Washington based World Resource Institute WRI and is the co chairperson of the Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development. Lash came to New Delhi in November 1994 to release The Second India Revisited, a WRI study exami
WHEN was the last time you read a popular science book which made you laugh? Or which didn't treat you like a cretin and didn't make absurd, pseudo-scientific statements regarding mysterious
Why should it matter if messages are effectively conveyed through tales, songs and plays rather than from the mouths of scientists bogged down in charts and diagrams?
The informed environmentalist will find it difficult to agree with the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) decision to ban the use of wood in its buildings and -- defying all ecological logic --
ALTHOUGH the repulsive sight of waste and garbage lying strewn around and putrefying on our roads, parks, greens, and neighbourhoods is no new phenomenon for urban India, it has become a cause for
What is the best approach to instil in the minds of students a lifelong respect for the environment?
THE burst of infectious diseases like malaria, kala-azar, cholera and tuberculosis in India is indicative of a deeper malaise. Despite a stated emphasis on participatory health management, in actual
IN ANDHRA Pradesh, woodlots maintained by farmers are the venues of social, cultural and religious festivals. In the northeast, much of the cultural life of the people revolves around events in the