First food: a taste of India’s biodiversity
This collection of around 100 recipes from different parts of the country brings to life the magic that takes place once biodiversity is combined with culinary dexterity.
Sunita Narain
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Modern dinosaurs
While Detroit
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The agenda for Poznan
DOWN TO EARTH The time for postponement is over. The time to cut greenhouse gases is now. Or never.
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Buses and Barack Obama
We need to change our policies to get more buses on the roads
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Mother of all bailouts: Costing the earth
The development model that got us in the current mess is still very much in place.
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The just framework for climate
Let's cut to the chase. If we are serious about climate change then we have to be serious about changing (drastically) the way the world generates and uses its energy. But even as the rich world talks glibly about 'decarbonisation' of its economy it has done precious little to reinvent its energy system and to wean itself from its fossil fuel addiction.
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Learning from the environmentalism of the poor
Suita Narain argues for a more logical and democratic answer to the world
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The framework for climate
The world needs to adopt the concept of equal per capita entitlements for greenhouse gas emissions.
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Water down the greed
DOWN TO EARTH Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 12, 2008, 2:47 IST We were so greedy for land, we killed the very channels that prevented rivers from flooding. This year, for once, the devastating floods of Bihar, where Kosi has swollen to expand across the state seem to have touched us. I say this because, last year, when the same region was under reeling under what was said to be the worst floods in living history, we simply did not know. Media had flashed a few images but it was just more of the same: rivers flood this region every year. So what
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Sunita Narain: Learn to walk lightly
DOWN TO EARTH Protests against resources being acquired for industry form the environment movement of the poor.