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.
Can environment education save our planet?
A blend of knowledge, analytical skills and social and interpersonal skills together can help create future environment leaders.
Treating sewage with plants
biological sewage treatment method based on hydroponics supports saplings of different varieties with their roots reaching into the water
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.
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.
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.
Fauna returns to Ameenpur lake
“Every water body from the past should be treated as a heritage body.”
Sanitarily yours…
At a school in Kanchipuram, teachers and students harvest manure from dry composting toilets, thus paying possibly the best tribute to Gandhi
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.