Two seminal books, John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York’s The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth and John Bellamy Foster’s The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet suggest that the rift between humanity and nature must be analysed in its intertwining with other kinds of alienation, …
When Edzard Ernst became the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, he was attacked by both alternative therapists and conventional doctors. The doctors have come round, but he is now alternative medicine's public enemy number one after sticking the needle into everything from acupuncture to homeopathy. He insists he is …
The former Liberian President Charles Taylor ordered militias to eat the flesh of their enemies, a former death squad leader has told during his war crimes trial. Joseph "Zigzag' Marzah said Taylor had instructed his fighters in Liberia to eat un peacekeepers to "set an example for the people to …
Head Of UN Climate Panel To Seek New Term NORWAY: April 7, 2008 OSLO - India's Rajendra Pachauri said on Saturday he will seek a new six-year term as head of the UN climate panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. "I …
Ashwin Upadhyay and Anilkumar, quit their plum jobs with an MNC in the Capital and have returned to Mysore with the aim of making it greener. They have not only taken up the task of planting saplings all over the city themselves, but they are also inspiring others into their …
Farewell. T V Venkitachalam's leave-taking from National Herald as its editor-in-chief was such a scene that only a dying newspaper could offer. Behind the door with a faded bronze nameplate that announced his designation, Venkitachalam sat in his chamber with volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica, a huge portrait of a brooding …
T-Zed Homes, a housing complex on six acres of Varathur Road in Bangalore has new age apartments built by Biodiversity Conservation India Ltd (BCIL), Asia's largest green building company. "The purpose of BCIL is essentially to mainstream sustainability-whcih means taking what are called 'alternate technologies and establishing these into cutting-edge …
When R K Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the Nobel Peace Prize in December last year on behalf of the IPCC, which bagged the award jointly with Al Gore, he had clearly mentioned that he would first want to pay tribute to the thousands …
>> Sharing the stage with climate campaigner Al Gore is to open oneself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed at the annual gathering of world movers and shakers in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. "It's like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess …
Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. His recently published PhD thesis enquired into humanitarian health assistance in countries affected by disasters. He tells Vibha Varshney why such assistance has often failed to …
The struggle against mining giants in Orissa got a shot in the arm after Mukta Jhodia, a campaigner against the Hindalco-led Utkal Alumina's bauxite mining project in Kashipur won the first Chingari Award for Women Fighting Corporate Crime. The award was instituted by Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, campaigners …
wajihuddin ahmed, a former chief justice of Sindh High Court and a former supreme court judge, is a strong voice in the lawyers' movement in Pakistan. He speaks to shahid husain on people's attitude to environmental issues achievements: As a judge at the Sindh High Court, I ordered that poaching …
This is the autobiography of a man whose job was to entice leaders of underdeveloped countries. In the 1970s John Perkins was an economic hit man, among those highly paid professionals who cheat developing countries of trillions of dollars by funnelling aid money into the coffers of transnational corporations. Fraudulent …
>> Newspapers in Manipur stopped publication indefinitely from October 12. Cable networks have also stopped telecast. The media reaction is a response to threats by a rebel faction of the outlawed Peoples Revolutionary Army of Kangleipak (Prepak) asking newspapers in the state not to publish a statement released by one …
Around three years ago, I got an opportunity to meet Chandi Prasad Bhat. He was lecturing on how poor villagers in Uttaranchal hugged trees and prevented them from being cut down. The lecture on the Chipko movement got me thinking on environmental activism in my home state, West Bengal. Environmental …
Indira Gandhi’s life (1917–1984) spanned much of the twentieth century. She was Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy for two spells that totaled fi fteen years. To this day, her environmental legacy remains one that divides critics from admirers. One sees it as a defense against ecological impoverishment, especially …
On the night of October 1, 1998, when Salman Khan went hunting blackbucks, he was explicitly warned not to do so in the Bishnoi area because only a few have managed to get away from them. Yet Khan and his co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam, along …
>> Ullas Karanth, the Indian wildlife biologist, best known for his prolific research and writing on tigers, has been given the prestigious J Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership for 2007
