Network: reaching out

Civil society members become a part of GRP

The audit panel

The sounding board

The nitty-gritties

Adopting a comprehensive rating approach

The burning question

A recent study dispels all that your mother told you about recycling. It says that incineration is the best way to manage waste paper

Paperworks

Overall environment health of the pulp and paper industry is far from healthy Inefficiency in resource use plagues the industry

The resonance

The Green Rating Project has already had an impact on Indian industry and hopefully will have more

Bottom of the pile

The companies that have figured low on the ratings are characterised by more than one of the following features

The top bracket

The companies that have figured high on the ratings have more than one of the following features

Mautak will flower

In 2006-2007, a bamboo species will flower over vast swathes of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam. When bamboo flowers, it dies; usually a famine follows.…

On paper

Enter -The green rating project

Indian industry is huge. But most environmentalists believe it has done little to reduce pollution, which will only rise as the economy grows. …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 14, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Greener Shades

The Indian pulp and paper industry reacts positively to the first Green Rating Project conducted by Centre for Science and Environment

More fuelwood = more forests?

In India, where 500 million people out of about 1,000 million depend on forests for their survival, any 'sweet-talk' about wood consumption is …

Maharashtra's white paper on irrigation projects fails to answer key questions

Activists, citizens groups enraged by silence on hyped water availability estimates, bad construction and corruption

A very heavy metal load

Waters of the gulf of Mannar and Palk bay are contaminated with industrial pollutants like lead

Driven for and by the people

GRP has emerged as a truly democratic indicator of the direction in which corporate environmental governance is headed

The dirty dozens

Science and Technology - Briefs

Half-way to autonomy

Decisions by Maharashtra’s top forest official can empower gram sabhas prepare plans to revive their forests, but a policy is awaited