Moneymakers
GARBAGE DISPOSAL MECHANISED: A simple machine called Garbodrain has been desiged for garbage disposal .The machine, developed for WD Industies, Chennai,can be fitted to the sink. After all the waste
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How the World Bank ico opts NGOs
Is the World Bank really working for the people?
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The forgotten waters of Sanchi
Come monsoon, and archaeologists will be testing the revival of an Ancient water harvesting system in this historic Buddhist town
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The world in his pocket
Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental conferences and has also played host to several of his foreign counterparts. Nath argues the new found green
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The weather out there
The government can truly be proud that it played a big role in the outcome of the recent Berlin climate convention. Its record, however, was not an entirely unbesmirched one. Indian officials, goaded
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The miracle makers
Scientists are only now finding out the Kanis' knowledge of herbal remedies. The most outstanding find so far is arogyapacha
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Tree heat
Environmentalists give us one more reason to save the rainforests from being axed
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MONEYMAKERS
VIAGRA IN INDIA: The much hyped wonder pill Viagra will be launched by the Delhi-based Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. Clinical trials will be held across the country, including the historical
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Will the Yamuna clean up go the Ganga way?
Even though Ganga Action Plan I, initiated seven years ago, has fallen short of expectations, work has already begun on the ambitious Yamuna Action Plan.
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Soaking in the sun
The US is trying to revive solar thermal power technology
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The sounding board
At the onset of the Green Rating Project, cse set up a project advisory panel ( pap ) comprising industry leaders, judges, research and development experts, policymakers, academicians,
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Killer industries
Government industrialist nexus and public apathy have become incentives for norm flounting industries in Gujarat
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The Indian reality
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
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Not in Delhi s backyard
Middle class environmentalism isn t the way ahead
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Costly populism
subsidy is an indirect payment given by governments for various economic and social reasons. A major part of the "cost' of the subsidy is paid by the government. At the same time, granting
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Free trade has no colour bar
OVERTURNING age-old fears, free trade is now being seen as the market miracle that will bail out the earth from the environmental mess it finds itself in; free trade is expected to bring about the
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Reshaping the future
THE stability of the ecosystem on a global scale has become a central concern in the post-Cold War era. This crisis cannot be resolved by wishing away endemic consumerism or expecting governments
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Finnish belt tightening chokes green projects
Faced with the century's worst recession Helsinki has had to cut back heavily on development aid. At stake are several international environmental projects.
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Hunting clubs on pleasure islands
A nonchalant French government plans to throw open its virgin islands to tourists and game hunters
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Laps of plenty
Imagine this scene unfolding in one of the cool rooms off the magnificent Central Hall of the Indian Parliament: a Member of Parliament punches 2-fingered into an imported laptop 486, plugs it -- fax