Environment

When markets do work

TBE proudly supports Sunita Narain and CSE in their quest for a better and a greener planet. Some innovations change lives. A favourite of mine is the village milk collection system, a cooperative model. There’s a dairy in the village, people bring in milk, the dairy in-charge places a sample on an instrument, checks...

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Biofuel: good idea, bad practice

TBE supports Sunita Narain and CSE. Now that the reality of climate change has been accepted even by its strongest sceptics, there is a rush to find answers. The latest buzz is to substitute the use of greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels with biofuels-fuel processed from plants. Unfortunately, the way we are going about implementing...

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What China is doing to Goa?

TBE supports Sunita Narain and CSE in their battle for the environment. We have no right to destroy what we cannot create in the name of economy and enterprise. I wrote last fortnight about how mining in Goa for iron ore was ripping its forests and devastating its people. I wrote of the violence...

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Goa: Blood on the mountains

In the latest issue of CSE Bulletin Sunita Narain has written a very thought provoking article on the ecological decay in Goa. Thanks Sunita. You are doing a great job! We were standing between a massive mine and a stunning water reservoir.Local activists were explaining to me that this iron ore mine was located...

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To Hell with the Environment – Reliance Energy Endangers the Chikoo Bowl of India

Environment hasn’t been high on the agenda in India anyways. Now the country’s largest company Reliance Energy is endangering the chikoo belt of India, a part of the fragile ecosystem of North Mahastra. CNN-IBN investigation found the the emissions from Reliance Enerygy has actually created so much heat that the entire climate of the...

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