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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The U.S. Green Building Council has recognized nearly 100 schools as eco-friendly under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. For the LEED program, schools are rated on a point system and given a designation reflecting the environmental elements they incorporate. The highest score is 79 Certified = 29-36 …
At Hope Community Charter School, pre-kindergarten students are taught to recycle and fill out math worksheets with an environmental theme. Across town at private Sidwell Friends School, sixth-graders in science class race solar-powered cars and record their fastest times. Learning green means different things in different classrooms, whether it's in …
The Prime Minister has released India's national action plan on climate change. For those engaged in the business of environment and climate, the plan may offer nothing new or radical. But, as I see it, the plan asserts India can grow differently, because "it is in an early stage of …
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles today, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries. The quake struck at 11.42am (0442 AEST) and was centred near the town of Chino Hills, 50km east of Los Angeles at a depth of 12km, the United States Geological Survey …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 30, 2008, 0:18 IST The battle to conclude negotiations for Doha in agriculture and market-opening for industrial products broke down due to unbridgeable differences between India and the United States over the trigger and remedy for using the Special Safeguards Mechanism (SSM) by developing …
Pakistan government has set an ambitious tagret of around $20 billion as foreign investment in the energy sector, for which it is actively interacting with top companies in the USA. Highlighting the salient features of the upcoming energy conference. The Minister of Information, Sherry Rehman, told Business Recorder that the …
To understand why fuel prices in the United States have soared over the last year, it helps to talk to the captain of a battered wooden freighter in Indonesia. He pays just $2.30 a gallon for diesel, the same price Indonesian motorists pay for regular gasoline. His vessel burns diesel …
People in India may not know much about baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1960) in the US, but this generation has provided the majority of the country's leaders in politics, science, business and the arts. They have been credited with building several institutions, and in some ways, with …
US President George Bush on Thursday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the progress of the India-US nuclear deal and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, according to reports from Washington. "Both leaders expressed their desire to see the US-India civil nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible," …
Sarah Boseley Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Wednesday that they were joining Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, in a $500m campaign against smoking in the developing world. As smoking has become less acceptable and profitable in the rich world, tobacco companies have expanded in countries where there …
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Praveen Bose / Bangalore July 25, 2008, 0:04 IST Rural women battling fumes and smoke from burning of biomass like wood, crop waste and animal dung during cooking may soon get some respite. Envirofit International, an US-based non-profit organisation, has introduced a range of clean-burning and biomass-based cooking …
Within a handful of decades, climate in many parts of the United States is expected to be significantly warmer than even the warmest years of the 20th century, increasing the risk of drought, flooding, forest fires, disease, and other impacts across many regions. "Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi July 24, 2008, 0:03 IST Two United States senators have asked the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to provide details of market approvals given to all medicines sold by India's largest drug-maker Ranbaxy in that country. The senators, John Dingell and Bart Stupak, …
The ethanol industry, until recently a golden child that got favorable treatment from Washington, is facing a critical decision on its future. Kevin Moloney for The New York Times A mixture of yeast, enzymes and urea is poured into a batch of milo grain for fermenting into ethanol at the …
Ranbaxy said on Tuesday that UK's English Crown court has quashed the country's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecution of the firm's subsidiary. This has come as a welcome breather for the company, which is facing investigations in US for selling sub-standard drugs. Ranbaxy said that the court also declined an …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai July 23, 2008, 0:20 IST Pharmaceutical companies in the country offering any financial incentive to doctors to prescribe particular drugs may become a thing of the past if the drug manufacturers decide to follow the strict code of conduct being implemented by a US industry …
DOHA MINISTERIAL: DAY 2 D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 23, 2008, 0:29 IST As the negotiating chips are slowly unveiled in the make-or-mar Doha trade negotiations, the United States announced today that it will reduce its overall trade-distorting domestic support (OTDS) to $15 billion as compared to a range …
