"Zero-waste life isn't wishful thinking"

Hannah Sartin rarely dumps a plastic wrapper or paper ball as trash. At 32, she owns Munich's first zero-waste shop and has published a book that …

Hidden subsidies in power, paper industries

If paper and power prices included ecological costs, the consumer would have to pay at least 60 per cent more for them than he pays today

Letters

Foresters warned

No pulp fiction

An ecofriendly process to convert paper mill waste into hydrogen

This paper mill in Punjab is causing cancer, loss of vision

Residents allege that the Kuantum pulp and paper mill in Saila Khurd, the only industry in the block for 30 years, is responsible for their …

Greening the industry

The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud CSE efforts …

A fair hearing

On World Environment Day, the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) put out an advertisement propagating plastic as the alternative to the …

Poplar winner

Are GM trees ready to turn the paper and pulp industry green?

Paper question

Proposed pulp and paper plant revives debate on private access to degraded forestland

Forestry, the Mexican way

Bamboo rising

Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …

Pulp fact

Researchers in the US have developed a highly efficient paper recycling process

Private plantations urged on forest land

After supporting India's forestry programmes for almost two decades, the World Bank now is moving toward arrogating to itself governance of the …

Making polluters pay

Despite bureaucratic hurdles, a non-governmental organisation hope to bring to book an erring paper mill in Punjab

New prototype diagnostic tools can help in cheaper and faster detection of Ebola

Present Ebola tests cost US $60 to $200 each and take about six hours

Money does grow on trees

Sunset sector?

No. Possible sunlight industry

What people know

Best barometer of change

Water

What a challenge

For sure Supply

Look to farmers and ragpickers

The losers

What made them slip?

Progress report

Companies participated, willingly

Measuring the present

Forcing future change

World’s leading financial institutions continue to bankroll deforestation

Most of them have failed to manage and mitigate environmental, social and governance risks