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Eco-logicCorporates consult on climate change
Given the projected rise in energy costs within the next 20-30 years, reducing the ecological footprint of companies has become a corporate necessity. And corporate India is finally getting its act together on the environment front More... The crow and the broom: Progress on sanitation in the SouthKerala has made remarkable progress in the area of sanitation. As many as 96% of its houses have toilets -- close to 600,000 have been built in the last decade. The state’s cleanliness campaign has a strong parallel with the literacy movement for which Kerala is famous throughout the world. Other Southern states are not far behind More... Re-imagining public spaces in citiesBy conventional standards, Mumbai has perhaps the least amount of open space per person -- 0.03 acres per 1,000 people. But, as a recent study by the design cell of the Kamala Raheja College of Architecture in Mumbai shows, a little ‘re-imagining’ can throw up innovative solutions to enhancing public spaces in Indian cities More... Hot air in HokkaidoOne of the worrying outcomes of the recent G8 summit in Hokkaido was the general euphoria about the revival of the nuclear industry, supposedly in the fight against climate change. This is an illusion at best. Only 3% of India’s electricity is produced by nuclear plants, and with the Indo-US deal this will increase to 7%, which is by no means radical More... Lille: City of the futureThe city of Lille on the French-Belgian border likes to describe itself as a ‘Eurometropolis’. A major European industrial and services hub, the most interesting dimension of Lille is its greening. Lille is the only city in France to convert household waste to biogas, which is then used in public transport More... Green or greenwashing?At one stage, Bajaj Auto was using captive wind power to generate 90% of its electricity from its own turbines and “banking” the rest. There are indeed businesses that are going green, but the majority of these claims are still greenwash, says Darryl D’Monte More... Green capitalismCan the collateral damage of a growth-at-all-costs economic model be addressed by a “regenerative” economy as opposed to a “degenerative” one based on fossil fuels and outmoded notions of industrialisation?Veteran social activist K R Datye believes it can More... We are what we eatThere are three ideal attributes of food, according to Carlo Petrini of the Slow Food movement: It should appeal to the senses; it should be clean and environment-friendly; and most of all these days, it should be fair More... Genuine progress, or so much 'Balihoo'?The best that can be said about the recently concluded Bali climate change conference is that negotiations didn’t break down altogether. Although India is being unnecessarily self-congratulatory about the correctness of its stand at the UN conference, it should adopt a much more proactive position on energy consumption at home More... |
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