Employee participation enables a major FMCG company to make an impact on earth-quake rehab in Gujarat. Procter & Gamble's global philosophy consists of adding value to the community in which it
The Chennai based CPR Environmental Education Centre recently launched www.ecoheritage.crreec.org, a Website devoted to ecological heritage under the Environmental Management Capacity Building
An industry initiative aims at exposing youth to this pharmaceutical giant's ecological awareness. In November 2002, the company took a group of four Young Envoys from the country on a five-day visit
With the Supreme Court banning all mining operations in the Aravalli range falling in Rajasthan (and also Haryana), a piquant situation has arisen the likes of which have never been witnessed in the
An organisation that is actually a composite of several movements for women's uplift shows there's mroe to development than aid. The Self Employed Women's Association(SEWA) is both an organisation
A new United Nation's Web site, www.unep.net, has put into the hands of the public the ability to monitor polluting activities of countries and companies anywhere on the planet. An expected
Amara Raja Batteries Ltd. believes that several little environmental projects make for a happier larger picture. The Peraiah Gari Palli feeding channel, Nayana Cheruvu in the village Karakambadi, a
Serum Institute of India Ltd broke its reticence early this month to announce a 40 per cent slashing of the price of its hepatitis-B vaccine, Gene Vac-B. The price cut, according to S.S. Jadhav,
Nowhere is global warming as apparent as in Udaipur, Rajasthan, where temperatures have risen over the past few years from a high of 32 degrees centigrade in 1998 to 36 degrees centigrade in 2000 to
Fifteen million Indians are blind; 20 per cent because of corneal afflictions, which can usually be cured by transplanting a healthy cornea. Over 25,000 new cases of corneal blindness occur every