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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Living energy
Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.
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That sickly look
The Indian perspective on women and health could do with a healthy overhaul
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Awareness growing about Amazon destruction
GEORGE Monbiot's book, for which he risked his life, is a delightfully lucid piece of serious investigative journalism on the ecological destruction of the Amazon, which he describes as
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Finding a job
What is saddest in India is that unemployment is not even a top issue of public and political concern today. The government does not have a think tank to identify public policies to deal with this problem
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Uninspired view of culture and development
WRITTEN jointly by a sociologist and an anthropologist, the book raises hopes of providing an understanding of uneven development within cultural and historical paradigms. Unfortunately, the reader
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When the water begins to stink...
...Yet another rainforest disappears and a way of life dies as "development" catches up with the Guaranis of Paraguay
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Death by starvation
About 11 million people in Orissa and Bihar have become victims of a famine that has occurred despite adequate food stocks in the country.
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The economics of empowerment
"For a long time now, we have been calculating the number of people below and above the poverty line. And, these numbers have become a hot political issue. But the important thing is to eradicate
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The road from Stockholm to Rio
It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the contours of environmental negotiapons have changed a great deal from those early days
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'Tribal leaders are mere pawns in politics'
Tribal activist C K Janu speaks on adivasi issues and the Muthanga controversy
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Unfair Trade
Developed countries are trying to control trade by using environmental protection as an excuse
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Afforestation
In its search for a strategy for afforestation, a laudable goal in itself, the Madhya Pradesh mp government has once again put its foot in its mouth and buckled down unduly to commercial lobbies.
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The fruits of water
Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off
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Not merely a numbers game
Although the recently held world population summit emphasised population control in the developing countries as the main block in the path to development, some delegates held the consumption patterns of the developed countries responsible for the problems
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The pope supports the principle of common but differentiated responsibility, stresses social and justice concerns
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/mukul_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; margin: 10px; float: left;" />The Pope has said he hopes the document,
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Calling the third Sector
Non governmental organisations have a vital role to play in motivating the people to manage their own resources better
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Cancun, Climate negotiations and the national interest
<p>The time has come to develop a national consensus, define the national position and determine red lines for future negotiations, otherwise we risk endangering our future growth prospects.<br />
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Uttaranchal farmers upset at upcoming tea estates
The Uttar Pradesh government in 1996 (now Uttaranchal) started an ambitious tea plantation programme, which was to be spread across 12,000 hectares (ha). It included a series of tea estates to aid
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Trekking to balanced development
Gandruk, a small Nepali village on a popular trekking route, will be visited by more than 80,000 tourists before the year ends. But an unusual conservation project makes sure the ecology of the area is protected