Search Result

Search Result
Sustainable Development

India, A Victim Of E-Waste Crime

Much of the 40 million tonnes of electronic waste produced around the world — old smartphones, TVs, laptops and obsolete kitchen appliances — finds its way ille...

Read More
Thought Factory

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...

Read More
Environment

Boris Johnson told to divest £4.8Bn PF from fossil fuels

London assembly members vote in support of motion calling for mayor to support divestment from coal, oil and gas companies. Boris Johnson has been told by the London assemb...

Read More
Sustainable Development

Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter

University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from $36bn endowment Some of Harvard’s m...

Read More
Hollywood

Former Hollywood mogul finds fulfilment in a Cambodian rubbish dump

Scott Neeson left the movie industry for Southeast Asia and set up the Cambodian Children’s Fund
The Apostle Paul’s epiphany came in a blinding flash on th...

Read More
Environment

Climate Change: How To Make The Big Polluters Really Pay

By dropping Shell, Lego shows new ways to target the astronomical profits of the fossil fuel industries When the call came in that the University of Glasgow had voted to di...

Read More
Sustainable Development

Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers

Pick the right plastic off a refuse tip, then shred, melt and convert it into feedstock for 3D printers – it’s a living for some of India’s poorest people...

Read More
Sustainable Development

Bengaluru's trash talk

City administration makes fresh promises to get an extension to dump its waste at Mandur village. But will the five-month breather be enough for Bengaluru to overcome its g...

Read More
Sustainable Development

Village to move court against Bengaluru civic body for illegal garbage dumping

Residents of Mandur village, where Bengaluru city dumps about 1,800 tonnes of garbage every day, have decided to move court against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike&r...

Read More
Environment

Delhi Air And Water In A Dismal State

On the eve of World Environment Day, the Capital does not score very high on the environmental report card going by the views of environmentalists and conservationists base...

Read More