Rise in exports is at the cost of the environment
With the pollution conscious West pushing large scale production of toxic chemicals to India, the result is more exports and more environmental damage.
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Eco labelling doubts linger
Fourteen years after Germany scored a worldwide first by adopting eco labelling, there still remain doubts about selection and evaluation procedures used in the system.
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'Forest guards have powers, but no weapons'
Kishorilal not his real name , is 39 and has been a forest guard at Ranthambore Tiger Reserve for 17 years. He spoke to Down To Earth on his experiences:
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Houses of cards
A recent workshop reveals that the rehabilitation of the 1993 Marathwada earthquake victims was a bloody farce
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Mud is a cost effective biulding material
Mud is on its way to becoming a popular and economically viable medium of constructon with the urban builder
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Clinton steers to safety on N plant issue
The US President has moved deftly to avoid irritating either US congresspersons or the British government on the issue of the controversial nuclear plant in Sellafield.
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Siddha's success?
Practitioners of siddha -- a traditional system of medicine, which originated in Tamil Nadu and uses metals such as iron, zinc, copper, gold and silver in treatment -- assert their therapeutic
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Starting off on the wrong foot
A non conventional energy complex set up in Brahampur village lies in a shambles today because authorities disregarded the people's requirements
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Keeper of the nation's water kitty
MADHAV Chitale, former secretary in the ministry of water resources, is a recipient of The Stockholm Water Award, given by the Stockholm Water Foundation for outstanding work in the area of water management. Currently secretary general of the Internationa
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The Afghanistan files
Since the mid-1990s, Afghanistan was the centrepiece of Central Asian pipeline politics as it provides the easiest access to the Arabian Sea, with the exception of Iran. Two companies, Bridas of
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High and dry
India's energy supplies depend entirely on the vagaries of the market
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Rivers of discord
Why is everything important reduced to a dramatic farce in our country? Take the Cauvery imbroglio. The issue is serious and important. Namely how will states, regions and people share increasingly
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Misplaced care
this book is a rather bold attempt at exploring the complex relationship bet ween man and nature on a larger plane, and conservation programmes and well-being of local people as a specific focus. It
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Spy in the sky
A few hundred dollars is all you need to borrow the services of world s first commercial spy satellite
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Freeze the sewage
Canadian engineers develop a no effluent discharge technology
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Only participatory technology is appropriate
THE GRAND Mughal Akbar, whose 450th birth anniversary was marked this year, once remarked he would venerate the person who could grow two blades of grass where one grew previously. Was he not
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Uneducated villagers bring about a miracle
AS A PEOPLE'S movement, Chipko's achievements are well beyond the ordinary. Launched by a small organisation called the Dasholi Gram Samaj Mandal in the tiny village of Gopeshwar in the Garhwal
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What a waste
The government is yet to decide what stand to take on the international trade in recyclable waste as banning it completely will hit industry hard
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MONEYMAKERS
HERBAL DRUGS: Phytopharm, the UK biotechnology group which specialises in traditional herbal remedies has been granted permission by the US Food and Drug Administration to start clinical trials of
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Novel approach to primary education catches on
New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the government.