SEWA helps working women gain confidence
THE GROWTH of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is an inspiring story of an unique organisation combining within its ambit labour unions, workers' cooperatives, and a bank. Its
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The stakes in tomato cultivation
CRATES for one hectare of tomatoes, which is grown as an off-season crop in Himachal Pradesh, require wood from 10 ha of chir pine forest, says R V Singh, former director general of the Indian
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Why are we all falling ill
The pursuit of unsustainable economic growth, bad development policy, lack of good science, and poverty are a prescription for ill health. These result in a bad living environment which contributes significantly to morbidity. A conference on the state of
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a musician's Yantra
Violinist turned environmentalist Aubrey Meyer has coined the phrase "contraction and convergence" and set the world thinking on the lines of equitable per capita emissions, whoever we are and whichever part of the world we belong to
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Post-Rio progress
Is there a worldwide trend of sustained growth towards sustainable development?
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"The DANGER to FORESTS is not over"
The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UN FCCC met from June 2 12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good part of the deliberations was spent in addressing the issue of land use change and forestry LUCF , and their tre
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Fights for space
Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats are forcing the animals"otrt of the forests ahd into nearby villages, where pachyderm raids are becoming increa
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Making science, technology serve the people
For R S Hegde, a primary school principal and rural technologist, science is useless if it remains confined to labs and libraries.
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Rising trend
Right from the "60s, DDT resistance of the malaria parasite host, Anopheles culicifacies, was detected in Gujarat. It was a rising trend. Another important vector, A stephensi, became so rugged that
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Wanderlust goes bust
Settling nomads is tricky business, especially when it comes to garnering votes
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Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged
THE National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) promised to provide livelihoods in villages by providing a minimum of 100 days of employment to every household. It was envisaged that this would
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How enabling is ICT?
In February, 100 odd people got together at the quaint little town of Baramati. All had a common goal: to exchange ideas on the use of information and communication technologies ICT for development. Tucked away in the heart of south Maharashtra s sugar
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No Headway
The just concluded international conference on climate change in Buenos Aires saw the developing countries ranged against the US which was trying to impose greenhouse gas reduction targets on them. The US also managed to win over developing countries
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Blame it on the Raj?
IN RECENT years, ecology has emerged as a major research topic and its historical aspect is being keenly analysed. The period between the 17th century to the early 20th century, when most of the
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The new utilitarians...
...of the North revel in pushing the South to the road to environmental rack and ruin
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One down
South Korea expresses its intent to reduce greenhouse gases "voluntarily", becomes the developed nations' showpiece to be presented at the COP 4 in Argentina
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Boffins unchained
IMAGINE a rapidly expanding gas confined in a container and subject to immense external pressure. The laws of science tell us that the balance of forces cannot be sustained for long without some
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Black heart
The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing and a rise in global temperatures seems imminent
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Smoke limits set to suit industry
Public pressure resulted in Calcutta's biased pollution control laws being made more scientific. But the new standards were not set according to what people could bear.
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Teaching people green rights
Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.