Pitching eco-messages and washing machines
A recent exhibition in Delhi drew crowds looking for discounts and new gadgets. But how many paid attention to a special section on the danger to …
Too much protest, too little practice
The October edition of Newstrack had a livelier-than-usual Crosstalk, which featured doctors furious at being brought under the purview of the …
A sense of belonging
URBAN VILLAGES Tony Aldous Publishers: Urban Villages Group, UK Pages: 95 Price: Not stated
Exploring the similarities in human action
EXPALANATION AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE HUMAN SCIENCE Gurpreet Mahajan Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: Rs 150
Learning the language of transformation
PIONEERS OF CHANGE - EXPERIMENTS IN CREATING A HUMANE SOCIETY Jeremy Seabrook Publisher: New Society Publishers, Philadelphia Price: Not stated
Disappointing effort on ecological economics
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS: THE SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY Edited by R Constanza Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York Price: …
UNDP report stresses people's participation
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1993 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price: Rs 190
Delhi goes green with Environment Day contest
The Care for the Environment Contest, which was held in New Delhi to mark World Environment Day, met with a response that far surpassed the …
Can USA provide all the solutions?
MANAGEMENT FOR A SMALL PLANET W Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead Publisher: Sage Publications, London Price: $36 (Hardback); $17.95 (Paperback)
Masterly exploration of the state of Earth
Earth in the Balance Al Gore Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, London Price: £14.95
A not-very-subtle environmental message
The film should communicae its environmental message far more effectively than the dozens of inept documentaries that have been made on the subject.
A cursory collection of platitudes
Dynamics of Mountain Geosystems Edited by R B Singh Publisher: Ashish Publishing House, Delhi Price: Rs 500
Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon
BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS -- ISSUES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Edited by E J Da Silva, C Ratledge and A Sasson Publisher: …
A blueprint and not a plan
Blueprint 2 -- Greening of the World Economy Editor: David Pearce Publisher: Earthscan Publications Price: £ 8.95.
White on black
A series of film clips is designed to bring the East closer to the self-satisfied cobbers in Australia.
The business of environment
ENVIRONMENT PROFILES OF EUROPEAN BUSINESS Dion Vaughan and Craig Mickle Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd, London Price: Not mentioned
World's first green party takes root
THE REST OF THE WORLD IS WATCHING: TASMANIA AND THE GREENS Edited by Cassandra Pybus and Richard Flanagan Publisher Pan Macmillan Publishers, …
Stalking plague
PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT — THE PLAGUE IN SURAT·Ghanshyam Shah· Sage Publications, New Delhi·Rs 395
Working Upwards
CREATING SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR HEALTH· B J A Haglund, B Petersson, D Finer and P Tillgren· World Health Organization …
Oil in a day's work
THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY·John V Mitchell, Peter Beck and Michael Grubb· Energy and Environment Programme, The Royal Institute …
The healing touch
A USER’S GUIDE TO MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE·Vaidya P Ram Manohar·Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health …
Economy vs ecology
STATE OF THE WORLD 1998. A WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE REPORT ON PROGRESS TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY·Lester Brown, Christopher Flavin, Hilary …
Forest guardians
THE LAST FRONTIER: PEOPLE AND FORESTS IN MIZORAM·Daman Singh·Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi
A new paradigm
Taming The Waters·Satyajit Singh·Oxford University Press·Price Rs 395
The enemy within
>> All About Bacteria, by Ravi Mantha, Harper Collins, Rs 299