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What cities must do to stay sustainable and resilient
Citizens’ campaigns in large cities are pushing their governments to bring together the questions of urban infrastructure, ecology and governance.
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Can environment education save our planet?
A blend of knowledge, analytical skills and social and interpersonal skills together can help create future environment leaders.
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Treating sewage with plants
biological sewage treatment method based on hydroponics supports saplings of different varieties with their roots reaching into the water
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Sustainable Solutions for the Urban Environment
Reduce resource use and change lifestyles to ensure that the use of all resources is within the sustainable limits of natural ecosystems.
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Foul air: Thermal power more to blame than crackers
The Thermal Power Plant rules could become an arena of progressive policy-making where the courts and government work together to tackle pollution.
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Comments on National Energy Policy
Energy sector should be democratised, with policy-making, decisions, management, etc. in the hands of the people along with state institutions.
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Fauna returns to Ameenpur lake
“Every water body from the past should be treated as a heritage body.”
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Sanitarily yours…
At a school in Kanchipuram, teachers and students harvest manure from dry composting toilets, thus paying possibly the best tribute to Gandhi
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Reviving a River, Reviving a Lost Culture
Tribal elders in downstream communities seek restoration of Myntdu River that has been destroyed by decades of coal mining.