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A non polluting, community owned mass transport system for Mumbai
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A second term for Bush
It shows that the environment is no more an issue for electorates in the North
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Need to integrate human ecology and nature
IT IS TIME for a grand reconciliation between nature and us. Ecological economists fear we may have already entered an era of "uneconomic growth", which impoverishes rather than enriches. They remind
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World's first green party takes root
THE ISLAND state of Tasmania, with its relative abundance of natural resources and wild countryside, is the home of the world's first Green party, the United Tasmania Group (UTG), which elbowed its
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In ink and line
2000 Millennium Cartoon Calendar On Water And The Poor <br>By Water and Sanitation Programme South Asia , New Delhi, 2000 <br>Sketches by: Sudhir Dar
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Threats to forests
A new study warns that if timber harvest continues unchecked in the Mexican cloud belt forests, millions of monarch butterflies who spend their winter there would face imminent threat in the coming
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Future lies in green tax
future lies in green tax Even after dismantling of direct subsidy on diesel in 1997, Ram Naik, the petroleum minister, admitted that indirect subsidy on diesel had risen to Rs 3 per litre.
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Union ministry of surface transport
Saboteur in chief. Is responsible for making procedures. Has botched them up, discouraging those keen on CNG
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Rules questioned
france has drawn the attention of the European Court of Justice for failing to fully enact the European rules for environmental impact assessments ( eia ) in wildlife habitat areas. According
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Green tag sells
The Danes are going green. One of the first empirical surveys of consumer reaction to ecolabels indicated that consumers in Denmark were willing to pay up to 17 per cent more for some products which
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Fighting for a place under the sun
The NISGA: are fighting with the British Columbian government to be recognised as a community. They came to Rio to "tell the world about their problems"
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Anti muck drive
The EXNORA-INTACH Clean India Campaign 11 ended in November, having covered 86 cities all over India. The communications yatra had people from EXNORA, a Madras-based NGO which has revolutionised
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Coastal decontrol
Yet another attempt by the government to ease CRZ curbs
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Ecological solutions for cities
THE BOOK focuses on a new environmental agenda for cities, followed by details on environmental problems in the home, workplace and neighbourhood. The treatment of the subject makes interesting
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Cool and dangerous
The UK government has been making efforts to get the European Union to ban a self-cooling drink can that uses HFC134a, one of the most powerful human-made greenhouse gases. The aerosol can be packed
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Britain s woes
With the multiplying numbers of vehicles on European roads, sustainability in road transportation has become the keyword. Participants at the recent annual conference of the Royal Geographical
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Women to the fore
With the 4th un Conference on Women and the ngo Forum on Women (Beijing) round the corner, the New York-based Women's Environment and Development Organisation (wedo) has launched the 180 Days/180
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Nuclear transparency
"Europeans Against Superphenix", a 888-based group which has been organising protests against the Superphenix fast breeder reactor near France's border with Switzerland, has now launched a campaign,
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Treaty for sharks, et al
Alarmed by the sharp depletion of fish stocks, 7 environmental groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council of the USA, recently launched a campaign to save the world's large pelagic (open
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In safe territory
The Centre gets absolute authority over the country s rich biodiversity under an MEF draft