Tumakuru sets a green example

The hilly and forested district in southeast Karnataka is giving new lessons to the rest of India on responsible forestry

Green drive

From planting trees in his arid homeland to trapping water, this former textile dealer shows the way

Building a green roof

10,000 trees in 66 years, an octogenarian revives greenery in a village in Bihar

Forsaken forests

Economic growth and development are destroying Rajasthan's unique forest-based religious system

Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased

INDIA

Green panchayats

Return of the green

A retired police officer takes up the task of restoring greenery in a remote Naga village

JAPAN

Forestmaker

A man who has done commendable work in afforestation remains hidden from the limelight

Emissions trading

"The DANGER to FORESTS is not over"

The subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) met from June 2-12 1998 in Bonn, Germany. A good …

Cheap fix

The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

A fighting chance

One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

Book review of "Environmentality: Technologies of government and the making of subjects"

Book>> Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the making of Subjects by Arun Agrawal Oxford University Press, Delhi 2006

Jobs and the environment

The sinking debate

The climate change negotiations have come to a halt over the issue of sinks. Neelam Singh discusses the associated complications

Foresters, villagers vie for land in Bengal