Green power
IT HAS taken decades of singleminded toil for the world's leading green organisations to move centripetally from what was considered the lunatic fringe to a position of such popular power and
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The nature of human health
It's high time that we invested wisely in a robust environment, a prerequisite for public health
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A pact with evil truth
SCIENCE is a double-edged sword, as curative as a missionary and incomprehensibly barbaric in more or less equal measure. After decades of rampant scientism, there is now a perception that it is
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The logic of importing lowly dung
THE largely deprecatory reports in the Indian media about the proposed import of Dutch dung have missed a key point. The idea seems to sound so outlandish because dung is a lowly thing in the
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Tanking up on history
NOTED environmental activist and writer Anupam Mishra's recent book on tanks is a significant contribution to environmental studies for at least three reasons: first, it establishes the historical
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Up in smoke
Illegal marijuana cultivation leads to a systematic butchering of the rich rainforests of Kerala
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When the pot calls the kettle black
THE Brazilian minister for environment, Rubens Ricupero, says that Western politicians, NGOs and the media betray the attitude that Third World countries look for what he calls the "lowest common
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It's a cow's life
Cattle in western Rajasthan struggle for survival as pastures continue to shrink
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Working magic
IN HER short but bitingly relevant play, Mridula Garg places the exploitation of children in the carpet industry in an equally horrific context of deforestation, outmigration and rural poverty --
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Understanding Adivasis
Tapan Bose's Jharkhand, 10 years in the making, has a participative view of the timeless, unspoilt lives of Adivasis stripped of their land
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A city derailed
The Calcutta tramcar system, perhaps the only eco friendly feature in the city's ruined landscape, is heading towards extinction
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We can't regard forests as something without human presence
RUBENS RICUPERO, 57, Brazil's suave and diplomatic minister for environment, has an unenviable job: charting the destiny of the beleaguered Amazonian rainforests, the source of over 50 per cent of the planet's oxygen. In India recently to discuss environm
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Rights for the poor's knowledge
THE government's efforts to develop legislation to control access to the country's wild as well as cultivated biodiversity are indeed laudable: the ministry of agriculture has already prepared a bill
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Democracy and approaches towards nature
Local decision making and an integrated approach towards nature hold the key to planning for a sustainable future
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Filling in the "big picture"
DEVELOPMENT, environment and science could be said to be the troika driving modern progress. But while the United Nations has been offering the "big picture" on the first two through its annual
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A blunder undone
THE Prime Minister, P V, Narasimha Rao, took a commendable step by revoking the patent granted to the US company, Agracetus, in 1991. Agracetus was awarded the patent for its transgenic cotton by the
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Hacked heart
Why did they have to do it?
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Paying for the North's "eco dumping"
Every country should have, the right to protect its people and environment from the negative actions of foreign countries. Based on this basic principle, the German Minister, Klaus Topfer was right
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Science on a platter
DID you know that the best remedy for jet lag is sunshine? Or that female athletes can outrun males in a marathon? And, if your teenage son drives his mobike at breakneck speed, blame it on an
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'India is close to aquaculture disaster'
JOHN KURIEN, a faculty member at Thiruvananthapuram's Centre For Development Studies, which devotes itself to developing linkages between research and action, finds teaching the economics of fisheries to researchers as important as teaching economics t