Healer extraordinaire
The death of Arun Kumar Sen, the inspiration behind the Students' Health Home, the biggest medical insurance scheme run by students in the country, has left an irreplaceable void
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Thinking afresh
Agriculturists in India are gradually moving away from chemical pesticides and fertilisers;
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MONEYMAKERS
CAN IT: Rotten foodstuff in sealed tin cans will now be a thing of the past. Elbicon, a Belgian company which produces equipment for food processing industries, has developed a new quality control
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The efficient way of looking at waste disposal
Urban waste will cease to be a problem if it is treated as a resource rather than refuse from consumption, which requires disposal.
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Cleaning up the frontyard
Some Delhi residents tackle the Capital's mountainous garbage problem as civic authorities apathetically look on
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Coast Guard mops up another oil spill
The oil pipeline burst at Bombay High exposes maintenance lapses and highlights the urgent need for environment management plans to tackle such mishaps.
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Clauses of deceit
DuPont slimes out of catastrophe responsibility
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North prefers UN to act as 'global governor'
Environmental concerns and the end of the Cold War are spurring radical changes at the UN. But the revamp is turning out to be another thorny issue.
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Wanted: professionals who care
Lack of ecological concerns among today's professionals have led to a dichotomy between development and the environment.
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The tobacco battle
A section of American doctors raise a hueand cry against the defaulting tobacco industry
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The green race begins
Given the rich California's zero emission target of 1998, manufacturers have started producing eco friendly cars
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Research to hardsell
The industry throws its mantle to the Indian Institutes of Technology
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A clean dig
Experts from all over India and the world vote for cleaner mining options in the first ever world mining Congress
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Budget blues
The finance minister's money bag may emerge as the commoner's bete noir
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Borrowed perspectives
For most of the live coverage of the Rio conference we have to depend on CNN. And it requires BBC to give us a perspective on our Green Revolution....
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MONEYMAKERS
AQUA IS GOLD: Controversial it may be, but aquaculture still holds promise for many an entrepreneur. So much so that the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's leading bank, has
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Banking disasters
A one stop shopping facility at the World Bank for private corporations to meet their project financing and insurance needs in developing countries is worrying green crusaders
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Bringing polluters to book
Balotra, an arid little town in Rajasthan, has a novel way of raising money to treat effluents from its mushrooming textile dyeing and processing industry.
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IMF Bank policies denude the environment
Dwindling forest covers are the ugly fallout for countries which had opted for projects funded by the IMF and the World Bank. The latter's careless attitude has incurred the wrath of environmentalists
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Weaving green into the budget
The Centre for Science and Environment recently interviewed a number of environmental experts, industrialists and economists to come up with a list of suggestions for green taxes and financial incentives: