No entry to Dutch plant
Pakistan"s environmentalists say no to dumping of obsolete and hazardous technology by the West
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A Gandhian economist ahead of his time
Kumarappa was a close associate of Gandhiji and a firm believer in the theory the village must be made the focus of economic planning. Aware of the dangers of unchecked industrialisation, Kumarappa advocated that human beings should collaborate with natur
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Beware of the developers
In its bid to get out of poverty, the Bihar government has finalised a plan to drain out lakes and convert them to farmlands. But it seems to be unaware of the ecological consequences of such moves.
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Water treatment need not cost the earth
Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.
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NEEDED: A WAKE UP CALL
Foresters need to throw away their blinkers. Scientists need to prioritise areas of research
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Peer Review
Environmentalists express their views on the chief minister of their states
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The Element of Doubt About Jairam Ramesh
<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style></p> <p><i>By Nityanand Jayaraman</i></p> <p> </p>
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Community Forestry
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Community Forestry - Nepal</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/nepal/forestry_hl.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>The most significant regulatory development in support of community forestry was the enactment of the Forest Act in 1993 by the first elected parliament after the 1990 movement for democracy. The 1993 Forest Act guaranteed the rights of local people in forest management. Nepal became the world’s first country to enact such radical forest legislation, allowing local communities to take full control of government forest patches under a community forestry program.</p>
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Indian Rooftop Solar Rearing to go
<p>Grid-connected solar power is growing fast in India, going from just a few megawatt (MW) in 2009 to over 1000 MW by mid-2012. 1000 MW of solar power can supply over 20 lakh Indians with electricity.
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A cocktail of chemicals
...that"s what New Bombay residents seem to be consuming daily, with thousands of chemical industries and lakhs of vehicles burping out pollutants and snuffing out a dream
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Ethics dumped
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International politics
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Poverty abounds in bio rich areas
Complex systems of preserving biodiversity, evolved over centuries, have not saved traditional communities living in bio rich areas like India from poverty. Only if India starts patenting its germplasm can it compensate those of its communities which have
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"We need to be more proactive"
Dr. S. Ramani, senior scientist Agricultural Entomology , Project Directorate of Biological Control Indian Council of Agricultural Research , Bangalore speaks to Down To Earth
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Dead fish tell tales...
...as the case of Betwa proves. Tales which have the power to move a whole town in Madhya Pradesh and send the notoriously slothful official machinery into a whirligig of activity. It is all about a people’s struggle to save the highly polluted Betwa rive
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Oiling the wheels of globallisation
The Commission on Global Governance calls for a democratic world governance to deal with increasing global interdependence
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Will imposition of green taxes be viable?
Down To Earth"s round table on fiscal instruments to manage the environment brought together economists, environmentalists and representatives from industry. What emerged was that the concept of economic instruments, though still at a nascent stage, is b