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"It is wiser for industry to invest in pollution control"
He was the archetypical activist bureaucrat. For A N YELLAPPA REDDY, former special secretary to the government of Karnataka's department of environment and ecology, the issues were real and live. He would not let avaricious politicians and big busine
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Apply apply no reply
Are we suffering from a poverty of spirit, or are Doordarshan's coffers genuinely in a depleted state? Whichever be the case, producers of issue- based programmes are having a tough
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After the last tree is felled...
"Sustainable development" cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural capital
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Good, bad and ugly
CIVIL wars and ethnic conflicts spilling across national borders evoke varying responses. At times, even though assistance and funds may be readily available, it does not reach the needy due to
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A pest of a problem
THE Germans may have stopped importing Indian tea treated with chemical fertilisers; and pesticides, but the use of these cannot be entirely prohibited because farming is the mainstay of
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Losing appeal
The book says that common chemicals and plastics may be affecting our hormonal systems, affecting foetuses and our future generations and causing, perhaps, a fall in intelligence
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Waterworld
Water for the future will be a vital issue on the agenda of the forthcoming second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements {Habitat 11), to be held in June 3-14 in Istanbul, Turkey. A
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Here we come, eco chums!
Indigenous support systems that have been nourishing the Himalaya for centuries have become the current buzzword for progress
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'India way ahead in tackling waste'
PAUL CONNET, professor at the Chemistry department, St Lawrence University, New York, has toured 29 countries in the last 11 years, educating and assisting communities in waste disposal systems, while warning them of the ills of incineration. He was
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We must know
THE struggle for people's right to all information relevant to their lives is intensifying worldwide. While some countries have accepted it as fundamental to the human rights issue, most - even
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The challenge of the balance
To start with, the environmental community should develop a shared green manifesto and jointly put it forward to the people as its own vision of green tinged prosperity and development
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"Bad TV is better than no TV"
'Welcome to tomorrow' seems to be ARTHUR C CLARKE's motto in life. He was the first to hit upon the notion of global broadcasting networks using communication satellites comsats in geostationary orbits. Clarke, the versatile visionary par excellen
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Culling science to sell beef
THE almost month-long European hysteria over British beef being infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or what is now popularly called the Mad Cow Disease, has global implications
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Attention India!
Three producers of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio shall be camping in India in April to develop programmes on issues related to the environment. The programmes will feature the
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Fall from grace
From archangels to archfiends the reputation of IAS officers has certainly nosedived. Anil Agarwal, director, Centre for Science and Environment, and N C Saxena, director, Lai Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie, share their v
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Not just green fields
The International Institute for Sustainable Future in Mumbai, and the Gaia Foundation of Denmark have selected two villages in Thane district of Maharashtra. as part of a global initiative to
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Stroke of a genius
THE exhibition of Jerry Uelsmarin's photomontages featured the photographs taken by him over the past 35 years, documenting his contribution to 20th-century art. Uelsmann's works trigger a