In this presentation on implications for water services in developing countries at the World Water Week 2011 Sunita Narain, Director General of CSE stresses on climate change, the catastrophic changes and the opportunities that this presents. Says that we are standing at a very critical moment and if we get our policies wrong, then the future is going to be that much more constrained. Watch this video for more.
Sustainable mining is an oxymoron. Environmentalists will tell you this. Mining – from coal to limestone – destroys forests, devastates mountains and leaves the land pock-marked.
We have forgotten that development cannot be development if it takes the lives of the very people for whom it is meant
The sight on television was heartbreaking: children lying in rows in the searing sun to be human shields against the takeover of their land for Korean giant Posco
Instead of looking at the business of food, growing healthy food may be the target Once again there is a food safety scare. A deadly strain of E coli bacterium has hit Germany, where it has so far taken the lives of 25 people and affected another 2,300.
There are estimates of what forests generate for the economy but there is no valuation of standing forests and their role in water and soil protection
My position on the need to re-position forests in development has invited a huge response. On the one hand are those who argue that the functions of forests already include conservation vital to life; they need to be valued and protected.
Surreal beach sight: Half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living
We were on a beach, somewhere close to Puducherry. It was a surreal sight: half-smashed houses with fronts wide open, and people still living in them. The devastation was caused not by a sea storm or cyclone, but by the eroded beach.
Sunita Narain profiles the man who never took half steps to development and transformed a drought-hit village into a prosperous one back in the 1980s Anna Hazare The first time I met Anna Hazare was in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was travelling in search of answers to how India could regenerate lands and address desperate poverty.
