Piloting disaster
Outbreak Outrage
There is a suspicion among African biomedics about the well projected linking of the continent's environment with the emergence of lethal viruses …
Manna from the sky
You can now 'telecommute' for sustainable use of resources and take an 'edutainment' break! overseeing more than what an overseas aid by a …
New raj wars the old
Its high time the panchayati raj institutions in India reviewed their actual role in spelling out developmental processes
Crimes against the environment
The Environmental Crimes Bureau (ECB) of New Jersey in the US is a state agency that is entrusted with the job of taking action against those …
Reaction time
Electronic conferences can speed up decision making which lengthy, costly and conventional deliberations cannot
Locking horns with the bull
International agreements like the Basel Convention are not enough to defeat corporate agendas firmly rooted in the stock market
Grass is greener
Growing grass in the desert of Rajasthan would improve the economy
No laughing matter
Activists are increasingly resorting to attention-grabbing techniques to bring development issues into the public domain
Agenda for people's participation
Two new amendments to the Constitution promise greater effectiveness in civic administration and urban planning; but is that enough?
Southern solutions?
Sustainable industry could emerge in the South if it does not repeat the follies committed by Northern nations during their industrialisation process
Shaken, but not stirred
Despite several high intensity earthquakes, India is yet to chalk out a seismic policy
For a new deal
The role of non-government organisations (NGOs) in the international arena is changing. They have to devise new strategies to consolidate their …
Bridge to nowhere
Sweden and Denmark, two of the world's most eco-friendly countries, compromise on environment to go ahead with the construction of Europe's …
The lot of a woman
The fairer sex has not benefitted as much as men from socio-economic progress
Small change
The Union budget 1999-2000 does not give enough impetus to the environment sector
Speak up!
As Brazil's energy industry undergoes an overhaul, consumers must take a more active role in protecting public goods
Humans may follow
Budgeting for science
The government should not only increase funding for science and technology but overhaul institutions of research
Shades of equity
Negotiators from developing countries lack the strategy to put equity on the global climate change agenda. But the US has already begun to define …
Nature's whims and fancies
Early flowering of mango trees, rain constellations going haywire, disappearing nor'westers, shifting seasons - all these unusual phenomena can …
A brave GNU world
The free software movement needs both bark and byte
The end of art
...as 'they' know it. Documenta 11 diffuses the boundary between politics and aesthetics
Two-leg safari
Babies can tell nice guys