Giving villagers a slice of the pie
A programme in Zimbabwe strives to conserve wildlife and maintain development on the premise that villagers will utilise natural resources in a sustainable manner if they can perceive the benefits to them
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"I am neither here, nor there"
Young Saif Ali is one of a handful of bhanyara nomadic Gujjars of northern Himachal Pradesh who attend college. But education has led him into a number of dilemmas and today, Ali feels he has no distinct identity of his own
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Feline felling
if it was the rabbit before, it is now the cat which has taken Australia by its whiskers! Approximately 12 million house cats, another imported species, have multiplied in great numbers and have
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Where fishing amounts to thieving
People of Totladoh find themselves on the wrong side of the law in tigerland
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The lone crusader
From social worker, to government contractor, to politician, and then to the highest political station of the state. It has been an interesting journey.
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Money for nothing?
A revolutionary system of trade, the LETSystem, helps communities meet their requirements without depending on hard cash
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Pure stuff
Total water management envisaging supply, use and recycling of wastewater is what Akshyadhara is all about
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India
• According to a recent study by the Pune-based National AIDS Research Institute, measures to control the malady have proved futile in India. The report states 10.2 per cent of those who tested
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Magsaysay awardee on eye care for poor in Nepal
<font class='UCASE'>Sanduk Ruit</font> is the third Nepali to receive the Magsaysay award. He was recognised for his outstanding work at placing Nepal in the forefront of developing safe, effective and economic procedures for cataract surgery, enabling
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Billowing Rage
The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.
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Oiling the wheels of globallisation
The Commission on Global Governance calls for a democratic world governance to deal with increasing global interdependence
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Money rains
Pollutants discharged from Russian smelters, worth millions of dollars, can be profitably extracted
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The Team
T H E T E A M STEERING GROUP To lend
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Bricks, pavers from construction debris
Construction waste recycled to make bricks and pavers
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Zooming in on three prize winners
A look at this year's award winning documentaries: an educational film on the Silent Valley, a campaign film on the Tehri dam project and a third on a fishing cooperative
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Doomed tomb
The future of the Taj Mahal is once again at stake because, the environment versus industry debate notwithstanding, pollution levels in Agra are rising once again.
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Losing out
Tamenglong to get a bad deal
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Quaking mountains
The Himalayas are seismically an active mountain belt and require long term planning of townships and other long term measures to mitigate disasters
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India energy scenarios 2047
<p>The India Energy Scenarios (IES) 2047 is an energy scenario building tool released by Planning Commission on 28 Feb 2014 which generates the energy demand and supply scenarios for India leading up to the year 2047.</p>
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Share ware
A usual story: a transnational company develops a profitable product based on the resources and knoledge preserved by an indigenous community from the South. However, very little is done to compensate the community. <font class=UCASE>Author</font> analyse