Banning spam

The uk government has proposed a crackdown on the much-hated menace of e-mail spam. It intends to check those indulging in the insidious practice …

Book review: Garbage Wars: The Struggle For Environmental Justice By David Naguib Pellow

Sociologist David Naguib Pellow has come out with an engrossing account of Chicago from the perspective of what surrounds us all: garbage. It is …

Book review: Inventing Global Ecology by Michael Lewis

In the 1950s and 1960s India used to import not only subsidised sewing needles and milk, but also wildlife conservation science from the US. …

Woeful ignorance

Alitalia apologies to wastepicker but that is not enough

Coming to terms with nature

Book>> Socialist Register 2007 Coming to Terms with Nature by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys The Merlin Press, London 2006 Published in India …

Bengali adaptation of Animal Farm

PLAY>> POSHU KHAMAR Directed by Arpita Ghosh 110 minutes

Colonializing Agriculture, a review

Book>> Colonializing Agriculture, The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism by Mridula Mukherjee Sage Publications New Delhi 2005

Cochin needs to preserve its green lungs

Documentary Haritham Director Rajendra Prasad Producer Jaycee Foundation and Gothrabhumi films

Comanagement of natural resources Local learning for poverty education

Book COMANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES LOCAL LEARNING FOR POVERTY REDUCTION *by Stephen R Tyler* International Development Research Centre

Myth of compliance

Documentary films on climate change

Hindon river Gasping for breath

Snippets

Lonely foragers group

Review of the film, Sicko

Film>>Sicko, Produced and directed by Michael Moore, 125 minutes, USA

Bush, global warming and media

Pashchimi Uttar Pradesh ke jalashay

Book>>Pashchimi Uttar Pradesh ke jalashay Aitihasik Viraasa

Disposing of nuclear waste

>> Too Hot to Touch, the Problem of High Level Nuclear Waste, by William Alley and Rosemarie Alley, Cambridge University Press, US $ 29.9

More facts, more doubts

Monsanto ups the Bt cotton ante with a feel-good survey

DDT legacy

Residue causes foetal loss

"The collapse of Globalism and the reinvention of the world"

Fizzy logic

Book: Sunderbans-The mystic mangroves

Book>> Sunderbans-The Mystic Mangroves by Biswajit Roy Chowdhury and Pradeep Vyas Published by Niyogi Books

Politics of water resource management in India

Book>> The Politics of Water Resource Management in India by John R Wood Sage Publications 2007 pages 285 Rs 625