Animal sacrifice at Nepal's Gadhimai temple banned
Sustained campaigning by animal rights activists leads the temple to scrap the 300-year-old practice
Priyadarshini Karve – Director, Samuchit Enviro Tech
Priyadarshini Karve is Managing Director, Samuchit Enviro Tech. While working with Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) she invented a …
T. L. Sankar – Hon. Visiting Professor, Administrative Staff College
T L Sankar served as Principal, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad for over seven years and continues to be Honorary …
Nikolaus Supersberger – Deputy Director, Indo-German Energy Programme, GiZ
Nikolaus Supersberger is Deputy Director, Indo-German Energy Programme with GiZ. Having began his career at the German think-tank Wuppertal …
Learning to think green
The variety of institutions are responding to the demands of environmental education made imperative by a generation familiar with eco-degradation
Books teach green the fun way
Much useful and reasonably priced reading material for children, focussing on environmental issues, is available now.
Kangaroos and tribals in the spotlight
The interests of the Tokyo Environmental Film Festival were varied and the films were technically superb, but most failed to focus on people
Not a blade of grass
...although the now bald pate of Iceland was once resplendent with grass and verdant willow, rowan and birch forests
A green front is not enough
It is time to question whether the new green urgency of big business is a genuine change of heart
Budding brains
Children from all over India recently came together bursting with ideas on how to build a cleaner country
Sprucing up
...production techniques could go a long way in creating a pollution-free milieu as the final aim would be to achieve a no-waste company discipline
Wealth engenders debt...
... seems like a paradox, but when that wealth is produced by affluent countries through importing undervalued resources of the poorer regions,…
A multi-pronged attack
The people of southern Zimbabwe have found a variety of ways and means to upgrade the quality of the environment in their part of the world
Order, Order
Powerful words that provided the base for judicial activism in India. How potent are the judgments delivered in favour of the environment? Will …
The colour my village was
A French artist has attempted to recreate pre-industrial systems of land management through his paintings. Has any Indian painter tried to do …
Cost of ecological balance
ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMICSAN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE· Edited by Rabindra N Bhattacharya·Oxford· New Delhi·Rs 550
Vatavaran 2003
Into its second year as the exclusive National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival of India, Vatavaran 2003 will screen seventy films on …
Miracles and methods
I once saw a miracle. It was near a ragged wall of broken rocks near Udaipur. One side of the wall had patches of yellowing grass, not taller …
Blame it on wires
Book>> Enough, Breaking Free From the World of More by John Naish Hatchette, India Price Rs 350
Desperate Digging: Bal Swami's Story
In the past six years, Bal Swami has dug 39 borewells with only two yielding him water. He continues to desperately dig for water in an attempt …
Why Angry with Vedanta?
The jury seems to have missed the dumping of fly ash by Vedanta in the Vansadhara River. It has also overlooked the sudden spurt in skin …
What is a good toy?
Sudarshan Khanna, former Professor of design at National Institute of Design explains the process of developing a toy, giving examples of his …
Total recall
The little chickadee sheds light on how certain humans have bigger, more retentive brains
Degraded land the size of China needs to be restored by 2030 to prevent biodiversity loss: UN Report
Every single year, we lose ecosystem services worth more than 10 per cent of our global economic output, the report said
State of India’s Environment 2023 In Figures: How CSE-DTE ranked Indian states
Identifying and compiling data, standardisation, weightage assignment, computation and finally ranking were the steps followed