Sprucing up
...production techniques could go a long way in creating a pollution-free milieu as the final aim would be to achieve a no-waste company discipline
Urbane and stupid
Sitting in urban comforts and planning for a rural set-up can only spell doom for any activity on the development front, for the village is a …
Wealth engenders debt...
... seems like a paradox, but when that wealth is produced by affluent countries through importing undervalued resources of the poorer regions,…
After the last tree is felled
'Sustainable development' cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural …
The silver spoon
Development in the small-farm sector holds the key to a holistic progress in the Asia-Pacific countries
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 …
Speak up!
As Brazil's energy industry undergoes an overhaul, consumers must take a more active role in protecting public goods
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 …
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
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
Dam alert
The construction of the Thoubal multi-purpose dam and the Tapaimukh dam in Manipur has sparked off protests
the key to prosperity
It's time India realises that it is trade and not merely technological innovation that holds...
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
Healer extraordinaire
The death of Arun Kumar Sen, the inspiration behind the Students' Health Home, the biggest medical insurance scheme run by students in the country,…
If you want to read a book
...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision
Women in power
Women elected to panchayats in Karnataka and Rajasthan function in two ways: some live up to expectations and other succumb to the pressures
Bed and breakfast available, only for a year
Researchers probing parasitism among birds say the hosts are cleverer than those living at their expense. The great reed warbler, for example, …