First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Prevailing parking rates in the city are among the lowest anywhere in the world. Car users are pampered so much that even hawkers pay double the amount to use street space. While hawkers pay Rs.100 a month as rent to the Corporation for using 20 sq. feet of public space, car owners using a parking slot every day shell out only around Rs.45 a month for the same space.
With the growing demand for water putting pressure on a limited resource, beverage majors are tracking their water footprints. Be it soft drink ones such as Coca-Cola, beer maker SABMiller or packaged water firm Bisleri, they are all measuring the water consumed for bottling every litre of their retailed drinks, trying to cap this and replenish the sources.
AROUND 300 tonnes of toxic waste still lies unattended at the former factories of Union Carbide in Bhopal. Dow Chemicals, which now owns Union Carbide, the company responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy,
<p> These were among the suggestions made by experts at a conference on “Parking reforms for a liveable city” organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) here on Wednesday. Participants unanimously agreed that parking problem exists in all parts of the country and most parking space was occupied by privately owned vehicles.</p>
New Delhi: Even as a highlevel committee deliberates over the parking rate policy, a strong case is being made to hike parking rates in the city. EPCA (environment and pollution control authority) member
Delhi has witnessed an annual vehicular growth of 10 per cent and nearly 1,200 vehicles are registered daily, experts analysing the parking policy of the Capital said on Wednesday. The statistics were
<p> The international conference organized by CSE in New Delhi on August 17, 2011 called for a parking strategy for better management that can control traffic chaos as well as dampen parking demand &
Congress confronts a mobilised citizenry capable of influencing its fortunes Given the widespread support received by the campaign for the Jan Lokpal Bill, the Congress has discovered a new threat
<p> The new Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation (<em>MMDR</em>) <em>Bill</em>, <em>2011</em> will ensure that the industry shares its profits with affected people. This is a special report by Down To Earth on this bill that will make mining companies shell out Rs 10,500 crore a year for affected people.</p>
The Euro zone debt crisis and recessionary fears in the US may prove to be a threat to the global climate change agenda. Experts feel that developed nations may not be able to keep up their commitment