Can plastics be good?

Though plastics are harmful for the environment, a few interesting initiatives across India hold promise

Book review: Plastics for Environment & Sustainable Development

For those concerned about the 'plastic age' in which we live, this 'eco-assessment study' is a must read. But do not go by the report's name, for …

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 …

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 …

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

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. …

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

Land the size of Central Asia lost since 2015 due to degradation 

At this rate, restoring 1.5 billion hectares of land by 2030 will be necessary to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world

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: Windpower Development in India

Book>>Windpower development in india edited by G M Pillai Wise, Pune 2007

Uncelebrated entrepreneurs

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

Book: Sunderbans-The mystic mangroves

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