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Climate change and design of houses
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
it's time we got worried about the way we build our houses, offices and markets. As more people migrate to cities, the need for more buidlings is causing a construction boom. This in turn makes astronomical demands on construction materials as well as energy--construction is one of the most resource-intensive sectors, be it bricks or steel or cement. And then throw in the cost of transporting these over long distances.
Choose ecofriendly vehicles online
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
The uk's department of transport has launched a website designed to let car buyers choose the most
environmentally friendly vehicle. The site, qww.dft.gov.uk/ActOnco2, allows buyers to search models by
category, transmission and fuel type. It then provides them a list of the lowest co2 emitting models. "By
Protest in China against pollution by industry
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
In yet another incident of protest over pollution in China, thousands of villagers in Sichuan province protested a polluting brewery on July 29. The police clamped down on the protesters, a human rights group.
The protest in Yuanshi town was against the state-run China Resources (Shifang) Breweries Co that was dumping wastewater and contaminating sources of drinking water and irrigation. The clash injured 20 villagers, and seven were detained, said the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
More steel means more livelihood loss, pollution
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
Estimates show that India will produce 180 million tonnes (mt) of steel by 2020. Consumption of stainless steel has risen 14 per cent in the
last 15 years in the country--higher than the global consumption of 6 per cent. Rapid urbanisation and growth in automobile, infrastructure and
real estate sector aided the boom
Safety concerns over Russia's oil pipeline
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
Protest against plant near Tanzania's Lake Natron
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
Plans to establish a soda-ash plant on the shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is facing strong opposition. Conservationists fear harm to the rare flamingo. The plant is to be set up by the Indian company Tata Chemicals Limited, which manufactures inorganic chemicals.
In court
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
oil shock: Four fuel stations in Massachusetts, USA, have been fined US $600,000 for failure to clean up spills of petrol and other petroleum products. The stations in Medford and Meldon areas of the state got fined by the Suffolk County Courthouse. The ruling requires Tony Eskanian and Ramona Eskanian of Winchester and J & S Petroleum Corporation, respectively, to clean up the contamination at the gas stations as per the schedule prepared by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
Pollution fallout: Japan pays dearly
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
the Japanese government recently reached an out-of-court settlement with the victims of vehicular emissions in
Tokyo. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe announced to pay 6 billion (around us $49 million) to the victims.
The lawsuit was filed in May 1996 by a group of people living near major traffic arteries in Tokyo, who suffered from various respiratory illnesses. In
October 2002, a local court confirmed the link between the illnesses and auto emissions, and ordered the municipal and the state governments to
US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
more than 100 municipalities in the us state of Pennsylvania are declaring the
environmental regulations of the state and federal governments null and void. They have, in fact, passed ordinances to abolish the constitutional
rights of corporations.
Led by a local environmental group, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (celdf), the municipalities'
Bottled water costs us the earth
@sunitanar Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
The botted water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets one water rich and the other water scarce. The question is whether this industry will have different outcomes in these two worlds. Or will we, for two opposite reasons, agree that their business costs us the earth and that it is not good for us?
