Learning to think green

The variety of institutions are responding to the demands of environmental education made imperative by a generation familiar with eco-degradation

Shimla in a shambles

The beautiful resort is fast greying under the onslaught of modernity

A silent worker

Green syllabus

Can the learning environment in India's schools and colleges cope?

Green blah

Is the desire for a cleaner environment a mere faddish concern? Some Dutch wisdom goes sour during a recent greenhouse debate

Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased

Treasure tapping

Reviving nature

A professor heralds hope and greenery into a remote Orissa village to set it free from a web of untouchability, superstition, illiteracy and poverty

A headmaster and his students save a forest

Flight into danger

While cranes are regularly hunted in parts of Pakistan, villagers in Rajasthan are doing their best to protect these endangered species

Truth or dare

By publicly disclosing the environmental status report and commissioning an ngo for its preparation, Pune Municipal Corporation has grabbed …

Urban areas can support biodiversity

Finding space in our city for nature

Pollution of Hinduisim

Simply put it is an amazing gap between theory and practice. Yet it is one of the main reasons why India's environment is as degraded as it is …

The secret garden

Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …

What's going on?

Out of favour

Focus on Alphonso has resulted in neglect of native mango varieties grown in the Western Ghats, some of which are on the brink of extinction

Imparting environmental education

What is the best approach to instil in the minds of students a lifelong respect for the environment?

ABC of environment education

The North's experiences in environment education are not useful for the South

Building a work environment: Siemens' approach

Sensitive economics

Anil Agarwal's article, "The poverty of Amartya Sen", publised in the December 15, 1999 issue of Down To Earth , has drawn a number of …

Looking ahead

A brief outline of the challenges of sustainable development in India

The beacon

Several social groups are trying to restore the link between Hinduism and the environment

Erosion of values

...and how it leads to environmental degradation

Defiling the sacred

How the environment --- sacred to Hindus --- is bearing the brunt of pollution in the name of religion

Holistic approach

Civil society and all government agencies are responsible for sustainable development