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The see saw approach

The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more ecologically harmful and mainly depend on non renewable sources of raw materials
- 14/06/1994
Water treatment need not cost the earth

Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.
- 14/10/1992
Sustainability and the southern perspective

European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries
- 14/07/1995
Energy aplenty

The recycling option has once again shown that wastes like bagasse and wheat straw can be profitably used to generate energy, which could in all probability, ease the continuing energy shortage
- 14/09/1996
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Mundra SEZ spells displacement for fisherfolk

Livelihoods of fisherfolk is at stake as the Mundra special economic zone (sez) on the northern shore of the Gulf of Kutch gets underway. Potentially the largest sez in the country, it covers 28 km
- 30/03/2007
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