People are not the planet's pollutants
The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone's need but no one's greed.
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Catch a falling planet...
...A recent discovery is the first confirmation of the long held belief that planets such as Earth may exist in other parts of the universe
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Malls in Ahmedabad violate green norms
an ngo has asked Gujarat's pollution control board for details of the clearances granted to over 12 large-scale shopping malls in Ahmedabad. It has alleged that most of the malls in the city
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A handmaiden of the West
The Stockholm Convention is against the interests of the developing world
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Toxic trap
Village Chipri in Kolhapur, Maharashtra is fighting: diseases, a factory and lax authorities
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Forest fraud
Senior official in the dock
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Nepal's right to energy movement: lessons for super-grids of the future
<p>Sorry for the long silence in the blog space. But I was fatigued and rather frustrated with the same old arguments and going-nowhere debates. So in the last few months we have been busy with new research to bring different perspectives to the old problems -- how will we share the increasingly scarce budget in an increasingly at-risk carbon constrained world.</p>
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Making science, technology serve the people
For R S Hegde, a primary school principal and rural technologist, science is useless if it remains confined to labs and libraries.
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Breaking the rural barrier
The Centre for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, set up in 1974, was a bold effort at bringing appropriate technology to the people. But the attempt failed to take off because it did not involve the people.
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The axe and human civilisation
The use and abuse of wood is a major theme in the history of humankind according to a new book, A Forest Journey
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Wind power: up, up and down
Poorly implemented governmental policies are preventing the full exploitation of wind power which could supplement as much as 25 per cent of the country"s electric energy requirements
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Within the enemy
Humankind faces the most prolonged and worst exposure to pollution within the four walls of its homes indoors where biomass combustion spells a quiet doom for millions. Surprisingly, most research has chosen to ignore this problem in favour of the mor
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No budging budget
Beneath the gloss of populist governmental rhetoric, this year's budget is a dead loss
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Blame bankers not oil for climate impasse
<p> </p> <p><em>It's time the green brigade joins the banker-bashing, Occupy Wall Street movement</em></p> <p>Another climate summit and another potential disappointment facing the green brigade.
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Obama’s grand climate plan doesn’t add up
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India’s leadership challenge in the climate negotiations
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Shutting down the particle powerhouse
Even though funds for the Superconducting Super Collider have dried up, particle physicists are determined to prove their theory of, well, everything
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Whre science and tradition join hands
The Gloria Land farm in Pondicherry and another run by a couple in Karnataka, show natural inputs can effectively replace factory produced fertilisers and pesticides.
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The new urban dream
Sweden is successfully moving towards self-sustaining cities where long-term ecological gains rank higher than short-term economics.
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"Power" to the people irks Bengal villagers
Villagers near Calcutta contend they have been unfairly done out of their land by a private thermal power plant project