India

 Managing Wastes

The solution lies in making waste management a community exercise

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Urban Habitat, Slums, Garbage, Waste Disposal, NGO, India, Delhi
India

 A Public Effort

Where the government has failed miserably in providing quality service to the people, some ngos have set an example on how urban waste can be managed. Vatavaran in Delhi and Exnora in Chennai are two organisations, which have set at rest doubts on the dif

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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 Garbage: Your Problem

Several non gonernmental organisations are showing the way to handle this problem

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Urban Habitat, Slums, Garbage, Waste Disposal, NGO, India, Delhi
Environment

Our ecological footprint - think of your city as an ecosystem

Our Ecological Footprint: think of your city as an ecosystem - a book that aims to bring an environmental focus to mainstream education to make it more relevant. It helps teachers to: relook at the relationship between subjects in the curriculum and environment education; adopt methods of knitting its concepts into the regular curriculum; and equip them to conduct their own Ecological Footprint Project.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1999
Centre for Science and Environment
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River Pollution, Ecosystems, Water Harvesting, Waste Disposal, Environment Education, Delhi
Air Pollution

 Plastic ban

Finally, the Delhi government clears a bill to ban plastic bags

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Plastics, Legislation, Environment Court, Delhi
Mining

 Space age

IT IS only when a disaster of the magnitude that struck Orissa takes place, does a country realise the need to perfect its scientific infrastructure. Space technology, for one, helps in planning

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Disaster Preparedness, Space Technology, Remote Sensing, Delhi
India

 RELOCATION OF DAIRIES

The Delhi high court has ordered the city government to clarify its stand on shifting 2,600 unauthorised dairies from different parts of the city to a proposed dairy colony. The court also issued

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Dairy Development, Health Effects, Legislation, Delhi
Air Pollution

 Deafening silence

The dangerously high level of benzene in Delhi s air speaks volumes

Publication Date: 
30/12/1999
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Air Pollution, Health Effects, Diesel, Petrol, Delhi, Toxins
Transport

 Technical Problem!

Procedural delays on the part of implementing agencies will ensure that the Supreme Court deadline for the conversion of old Delhi Transport Corporation buses to compressed natural gas will not be met

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
Lopamudra Banerjee
Down to Earth
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Public Transport, Natural Gas, Legislation, Governance, Politics, Delhi
India

 Time to act together

The Delhi government tries to involve resident s associations in managing civic amenities

Publication Date: 
14/12/1999
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Tags:
Development, Public Participation, Governance, Delhi

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