Vignettes from our natural world
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The wilder side of environment
Why are pretty films on wildlife so much more interesting than no-holds-barred environmental documentaries?
Reworking of times past
In the race to make a fast buck from Jurassic Park, Spielberg lost a cinematic shot at recreating the complex ecosystem where dinosaurs ruled Earth
Reading is believing
An essay on Moving Pictures, the magazine brought out by the Television Trust for the Environment, and its role in projecting TV, video and even …
No laughing matter
Activists are increasingly resorting to attention-grabbing techniques to bring development issues into the public domain
Website review: Going 'rural'
www.ruralnaukri.com proclaims itself as a "'Haat' where buyers and sellers of rural talent meet". But if you think it is entirely to do with …
A virtual takeover
A set of electronic postings on the subject of AIDS on the prestigious British Medical Journal (BMJ) website are making AIDS researchers see red
Southern California forest fires
Here are some of the different uses of the forest fires that raged in southern California, USA, this month: The Washington Post reported that the …
Book notice: Green peace
Environmental Peacemaking Edited by: Ken Conca and Geoffrey D Dabelko Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 244+15 pp
Photo-copy
If this is world's best in photojournalism, then it is shocking. Make no mistakes. Most of the photographs, featured at the Annual World Press …
"Ad" nauseum: Science and technology
It is "payback" time for the scientific establishment too! The incumbent Indian government, keen to amass political capital well before the next …
Pesticides in soft drinks: media war
With their reputation at stake, the soft drinks industry started a major public relations offence. After decades of some of the most glamorous …
Magic on the pages: Harry Potter goes green
Endangered forests were not something the wizards at Hogwarts have had to bother about. Until now...
Book review: Social Watch India
Governance acts as the mid-wife for development. Accountable and responsive governance is the surest way for perfect delivery of the fruits of …
Ford: Looking backward
To coincide with Ford's centenary celebrations in Dearborn, Michigan, the us environmental group Sierra Club is planning to run an advertising …
Fat before fit
Apparently, the uk government has decided to fight obesity by promoting chocolate consumption. It has endorsed a campaign by Cadbury Schweppes to …
Website review: www.rainwaterharvesting.org
Summer is here and with it water wars at neighbourhood taps and tanker stops. To find a way out of scarcity, visit the Centre for Science and …
Bioterrorism: Contentious content
The sudden spurt in articles on bioterrorism published by medical journals may have inadvertently helped convince the public that the war on Iraq …
Europeans and Biotechnology in 2002 - Eurobarometer 58.0 (2nd Edition: March 21st 2003)
The Eurobarometer Survey measures the awareness and concerns of Europeans on important environmental issues. The fifth edition of the survey, …
How Gandhi’s doggedness continues to inspire Indian cartoonists
At a time when mainstream Indian media is prostrating itself before the present regime, uncompromising cartoonists are doing their work with …
How tech rebooted economics and platforms broke the invisible hand
Growing evidence and new research explain the evolution of economic diversity and the need to rethink monopolies in the age of technology
Call the bluff
The JNU episode must force us to decipher the modus operandi of the modern `truth-telling' information machinery
Auction for green drive
Online>> green.ebay.com/green-driving
Tools for sharing
PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION Edited by K Sadanandan Nair and Shirley A White Publisher: Sage Publications Price: Rs 250 (hb), 145 (pb)
Comics workshop
There's a different way comics -- a mixed narrative form that uses text and images, what American cartoonist Art Spiegelmann called 'comix' -- …