First food: business of taste
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
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We have set up a toothless pollution control board
Central Pollution Control Board CPCB : one would expect an organisation with a name like that to penalise polluters and care about the quality of air inhaled by the urbanites of India. But this dialogue between Anju Sharma and the CPCB chairperson
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Taken for a ride
Consumer consciousness has yet to make a dent in the mind of the average Indian buyer. That consumer is the king has remained merely a slogan of the consumer movement activists
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In love with the land
By shielding Utah lands from developmet, US President Clinton delighted environmentalists but infuriated most Utah officials who see coal mining as important to their livelihood
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Closing in on problems
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The Phuket experience
In Phuket, a community initiative pays dividends
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From cinema to commune
The UFA (Universal Film Studios) Fabrik in the German city of Berlin is a unique experiment in urban living. The former film studio is now home to a comm unity of 50. Having acquired a worldwide
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Tax the lax
The taxation systems in operation today were designed at a time when the availability of resources like forest products and seafood far exceeded human needs. But many governments are beginning to
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A perfect world
A majority of the earth s ecosystems today are in a state of accelerated death , one that can be traced to activities structurally linked with most human societies. The study of those human societies which have been able to integrate themselves with t
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Witness to genesis
Cosmologists spy on galaxies being born, and conclude that these massive stellar assemblages might have formed earlier than believed
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Rickshaw blues
Calcutta will soon bid a final goodbye to the rickshaw (hand-pulled cart), made famous the world over in Dominique Lapierre's City of Joy . While the end has been in the offing, the venerated