The road to ecological and economic prosperity
The experience of the last 22 years, starting from Ralegan Siddhi and Sukhomajri, shows that regeneration of a highly degraded village, ecologically and economically, takes more than 10 years. The
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Nucleus of disaster
Are the recent accidents at the Tarapur nuclear facility early warnings of a catastrophe in the making?
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The view from below
For down and out tribal women, global developmental extravagnzas mean nothing but rhetoric
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MONEYMAKERS
WASTE WONDERS: This had to happen: domestic and other wastes can go into making objects of daily use. A Canadian company, Low Energies Extrusion Technologies, uses flyash, clay, wire scrap and
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The mystery of the aquadeaths
One of the most lucrative pisciculture activities today, shrimp cultivation in India was recently given a devastating body blow by a mysterious lethal virus. Author tracks the beast
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Bumpy ride
At the recent Berlin Climate Summit, amid North South wrangles, an agreement was reached to detail how to and who has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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Rebel saints
Four Franciscan Mary Missionery (FMM) nuns who have rebelled against the Church are in the forefront of a struggle for the restoration of tribal ancestral lands illegally occupied, mostly by
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Wonders of the Sun
Installation of solar panels have made life comfortable
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A fluid paradox
International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water
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Laying India to waste
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
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What car is this anyway?
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke belching, spit and gum contraption a Maruta
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"Over 15 per cent of Russia is ecologically unsafe"
Professor Alexei Yablokov is head of the inter departmental commission for ecological security under Russia's National Security Council. He recently resigned as advisor on environmental and health problems to President Boris Yeltsin. Yablokov, 62, has a
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The great nuke snobbery
France obstinately plans to ahead with nuclear testings in the South Pacific just after the NPT conference held by the Big 5
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Gasbagging
How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?
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A way out for India
Indian fridge manufacturers are juggling their options for a substitute for ozone-depleting substances and some are looking at a revived technology that will no longer make them dependent on Western companies.
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A headache called Bush
George W Bush s fixation for fossil fuels and nuclear power enrages environmentalists
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A tinge of green
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just concluded assembly elections.
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Driven up the barren hills
Scientists working on department of science and technology's high altitude projects face a bleak future
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The other side of conservation
ANIMAL welfare activists in India have never adopted the path of physical violence taken by a section of those who protested against live cattle exports in England earlier this February. They do,
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Windowdressing forestry
Applause and international funding of a forestry project greenwashes the cruel realities of the people living there