Ambitious plans override safety concerns
Despite strong opposition, the Indonesia is going ahead with its plan to build 12 nuclear power plants
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In the pay of plastics
India s biggest public sector unit is out to ape the West s fashion for unsustainable living
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MONEYMAKERS
eco-friendly truck: J Sainsbury Plc of the uk has deve loped the world's first solar photovoltaic-cooled food distribution truckthat aims at increasing the commercial use of the eco-friendly
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Riots for water
Faced with a severe drought, the Gujarat government decided to reserve water from a dam for the town of Jamnagar. Rural folk of Saurashtra protested. In the ensuing riots, three people died
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The continuing irrelevance of Agenda 21
AGENDA 12 resources to the South have been consistently falling - and there hangs the threat of a further plummet. Even the North- initiated Global Environment Facility has failed to raise the
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Made to order
Technologies developed keeping rural India in mind
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No greenhorns here...
...in efforts at getting the environmental message across in moving images
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Land of sufferance
People of a village in Orissa wage a battle against mining companies to protect their lands
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The winter of content
Organisations bring some cheer to India's elderly
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Money makers
THE Chinese need no longer tot up on English to operate Microsoft Corp's famous user-friendly Windows programme. The Beijing Stone Group Co has developed Chinese-language software that can be used
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Thrice dammed
Three dams could bailout Delhi if plans flow right...
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The dam sham
Even as protests against the Bakun Dam Project grow more strident, the Malaysian government remains adamant on its decision to go ahead with it
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Emerging alternatives
A novel project in Kerala tries to introduce a sanitation technology that promises a cleaner and healthier environment
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MONEYMAKERS
<b>CLONING TECHNOLOGY:</b> Geron, the US-based biotechnology company specialising in embryo research has bought the Scottish cloning technology that led to Dolly the sheep. The company aims to clone patients' cells to produce specialised tissues for transplantation. Geron is issuing about US $28 million of new shares to buy Roslin Bio-Med, a private company set up in 1998 to commercialise cloning research. Ian Wilmut, the scientist in charge of Roslin's cloning programme said Scottish science would benefit through Geron's research funding.
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Has India missed the boat?
Bhargava adds: "Unfortunately, neem is not the only case where we have lost out. We (at the CCMB) discovered a protein called seminal plasmin (published in Nature and widely publicised in the late
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The central problem
Callous unconcern, pollution, encroachment and politics is finishing off the lakes in Bhopal and Indore
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To save the future
A change is needed in government policy to discourage the use of fossil fuels. Strict pollution control measures have to be implemented
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Default drinking water
'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water commonly called bottled water conducted by the Pollution Monitoring laboratory of the Centre for Science an
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The spear pierceth
Irian Jaya, in Indonesia, is witnessing the descretion of its rainforests by a mining firm; an oft repeated story, one would think, but the implications are no less frightening
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Waste worry
Kerala is finding it difficult to dispose its waste