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Food storage or wastage?
25 Aug 2010
To tackle food storage crisis in India, government should adopt two-pronged approach of encouraging large size foodgrain silos in states with surplus production and de-centralised foodgrain procurement and storage in other regions. |
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Clouds under attack
02 Aug 2010
As part of cloud seeding technology, rockets and airplanes are being used to target the clouds as if nature can be forced to yield through precipitation. But should we allow these private profit motives to get priority over well-tested methods of drought proofing? |
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Bhopal re-enacted in Punjab unabated
15 Jun 2010
Bhopal has many lessons for us. The most crucial one is de addict our farms from chemical agriculture and put hold to corporate control over our lives and farms. |
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Seeds of hope
05 Jun 2010
Environment protection is more than symbolic celebration once or twice a year. In an individualized and consumption driven society, local communities and grassroot movements are the real champions of environment conservation. |
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Preserve biodiversity through community initiatives
22 May 2010
The year 2010 has been declared by the United Nations as 'The International Year of Biodiversity'. But the governments in most countries remain indifferent to the massive loss of species of trees, plants, insects, fish, birds and animals that balance the life-cycle on earth. |
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Seeds under siege
26 Apr 2010
International Seeds Day (April 26) reminds us of concerted attempts by the large seed corporations to destroy seed diversity of the world to expand their markets and profits. |
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Reduced to a ritual
21 Apr 2010
The true spirit of Earth Day is to live in harmony with nature as older civilizations have lived for thousands of years. |
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GM forests or fuel mines?
20 Mar 2010
Enough harm has already been done to the environment under the garb of development. Now, novel ideas like GM forests are being proposed as a new alternative fuel for the automobile industry. It's time for the world to learn from its cyclical mistakes, and fast! |
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Losing our language
15 Feb 2010
Every language represents the repository of accumulated knowledge over the generations and defines our relationship within the society and its link to nature. Unfortunately, we have begun to judge a language by only its commercial value in the existing market. |
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Historic decision awaited on BT Brinjal
30 Jan 2010
The public consultations on Bt Brinjal have brought to the fore strong resentment among people against increasing corporate influence over government policy making. |
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Bio fuel or Bio foul policy?
27 Jan 2010
The government has spelt out its intention to encourage bio-fuels but a deeper understanding of energy issues and people’s livelihood concerns is missing. |
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Climate inaction plan
24 Oct 2009
On the occasion of the Climate Action Day (October 24, 2009), it would be appropriate to evaluate the National Action Plan on Climate Change. |
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Small farmers can cool the Earth
16 Oct 2009
Industrial farming in the rich countries has led to massive increase in green house gas emissions but the small farmers of developing world can mitigate the global warming through their traditional farming practices. |
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It is safe to blame climate for calamities
12 Oct 2009
As expected the drumbeaters of climate change have begun to blame every natural calamity in India on global warming, but the fact remains that most disasters including recent floods in south India could have been avoided or minimized with some foresight backed by effective and timely actions. |
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Is Manmohan turning Green?
24 Aug 2009
Recent speeches of Prime Minister indicate a policy shift in favour of ecological approach towards development but the emphasis on importing green technologies exposes his preference for market-driven growth model. |
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Economy first, Ecology last?
30 Jul 2009
Riding high on its return to power, UPA government is in a hurry to accelerate India's GDP. But the economist Prime Minister will have to ensure that his overambitious economic policies do not further erode the nation's environment but perform in tandem with it. |
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