www.seedawards.org The Seed Awards are meant to foster the idea that partnerships benefit communities. The bi-ennial awards (five to ten) will be given for innovative proposals. Winners will be

On November 20, 2003 the curtain fell on Vatavaran 2003, a festival of films devoted exclusively to environmental issues. Organised by New Delhi based Centre for Media Studies cms and supported by the Union ministry of environment and forests, the 3 day

• Anyone with a personal computer can now take part in an online experiment (Climateprediction.net) to generate a probable forecast of the climate of the 21st century. A collaborative effort of

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has announced that it will present the International Programme for the Development of Communication prize to two South American community radio stations. The recipients are the Radio Hua

Raman Sukumar, founder director of the Bangalore based Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, has been selected for the prestigious Whitley Golden Award, popularly known as the Green Oscar , for his efforts to save endangered Asian elephants

Vishakhapatnam residents can register and verify births and deaths online and get the certificates delivered to their residences. Payment of municipal dues and taxes, trade license fees and obtaining building permissions are just a few of the other servic

Nobel Prize for Sustainable Development An initiative, led by Dutch Member of Parliament Boris Van Der Ham, British Member of the European Parliament Chris Davies, former youth-representative

This year s Nobel prizes are truly grounded in practicality

Pledges to improve performance after poor scores