It's the greenest one
The Korean auto major leads the green bandwagon. But to outgrow the just above average status, it needs to accelerate its environmental performance
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Fireproof plastic
A FORMER British hairdresser, Maurice Ward, who traded his shears in the early 1970s for an executive desk at a plastic-recycling firm that he set up, says he has invented a fireproof plastic
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Dubious credentials
The green credentials of Body Shop, a highly successful British cosmetics company with a chain of 1,100 outlets in 45 countries, took a beating with allegations of flimsy environmental standards. The
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ICICI to the rescue
Indian industrialists will now have few excuses for not undertaking Pollution control measures: the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) has offered Rs 150 crore as
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Japan lends a hand
The increasing pressure on the West Bengal government to clean up industrial pollution in the state has forced it to seek Japanese aid. Japanese experts will help the state government set up effluent
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INDONESIA
Environmental reasons have weighed heavily in the decision of the usbased Overseas Private Investment Corporation (opic) to terminate us $100 million worth of political risk insurance on
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Trash tax
In order to deal with the growing waste, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (mch) has passed a resolution to impose a garbage tax on 2,000 waste-generating city institutions. These include
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Stringent step
Segregate your waste or pay up. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (bmc) has sounded this alert to all Mumbaikars. To make solid waste management work in the city, bmc is penalising
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In Court
Synthetic worries: US chemical giant, DuPont Corporation wants a hearing before an administrative law judge about a government complaint about its apparent lapse in providing information about the
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Conflicting interests
many people in Delhi are openly violating laws enacted by the Central Ground Water Authority (cgwa) with the help of the Delhi Jal Board (djb). In 2000, the cgwa had passed an order that new
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Fishing feud
The Uttaranchal High Court has declared illegal an Uttar Pradesh (UP) government advertisement proclaiming its right to conduct fishing auctions in six waterbodies in the hill state's Udham Singh
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Brazil
A 400-strong group took part in a demonstration to remove miners and woodcutters from the Sarare indegenous area in the state of Mato Grosso on January 11. The demonstration was supported by the
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What impact?
Delhi CM seeks waiver for C wealth games projects
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Win some, lose most
To find out what the Union Budget has in store for science and the environment, Down To Earth spoke to environmentalists and representatives of the scientific and business communities. Their views
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People s verdict ignored
Down with mining. This is the verdict that has been given by the residents of Tambogrande, a northern farming district in Peru. The people rejected a Canadian company's plans to develop a rich
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NIGERIA
Following protests from environmentalists, the World Bank's International Finance Corporation ( ifc ) has withheld a us $15 million loan to Royal Dutch Shell, the multinational oil
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Mumbai's solid waste management plans expensive, dangerous
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (mcgm) is expected to spend almost Rs 500 crore to develop waste processing technologies and scientifically manage its dumpyards at Gorai, Deonar, Mulund
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Powai Lake dying
the water quality of Powai lake, Mumbai, has deteriorated considerably in the past few years because of pollution and degradation. The surrounding hills have been subjected to deforestation and
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New website on health
for the netizens in India there is some great news. A new website on health has been launched as part of an Indo-Canadian project. The website, www.galaxyofhealth.com , is being
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Chemical companies with a shady past
The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (vavo) has filed a lawsuit against 37 us-based chemical companies, which supplied Agent Orange (ao) during the Vietnam war. Health problems