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Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sustainability, l...

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Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Gender

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Health

Pregnant Women World-Wide Need Timely Access to Supplements

Over 32 million pregnant women around the world have anemia every year, a condition that limits the blood’s capacity to transport oxygen to the body’s cells. Th...

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Environment

Tiny Marine Organisms At The Base Of The Food Chain Are Eating The Plastic We Toss In The Oceans

Tiny marine organisms sitting at the very bottom of our food chain are ingesting the plastics that humans are tossing by the ton into the world's oceans, say researchers in...

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Gender

Small Loans Mean Big Opportunities For Women In The Philippines.

Like most women around the world, the women of Talisay, a small city on the central Philippine island of Negros, juggle many duties throughout the day. They manage the hous...

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Health

New Single-Dose Drug May Treat Malaria

A new drug may treat malaria in a single dose and prevent infection being transmitted by mosquito bites to other people, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have fo...

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Health

The UN Fell Short On Helping Women

A critical push for universal progress, launched by the United Nations in 2000, has reached an official close. On Monday, the U.N. released its report on the initiative kno...

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