Consumer choices reflect not only price and quality preferences but also social and moral values, as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products.
THE newly-formed climate change department of the Gujarat government, the first such department in Asia and sixth in the world, has received its first budgetary allocation.
The state government has provided Rs 100 crore in Budget 2010-11 for the department, which was set up in 2009, to address the challenge posed by global warming.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Tuesday awarded an appreciation to two institutions that managed to produce environmental-friendly products while at the same time having capability to improve livelihood for poor people.
Though sale of environment-friendly electric vehicles is slowly picking up in India, its manufacturers feel that much more needs to be done in terms of providing incentives and developing infrastructure to promote e-vehicles and help conserve environment.
If you care about the environment, you may want to show that in the way you spend your money. These decisions could help steer us towards a truly green economy - but only if consumers and investors have a good idea of which companies have genuinely minimised their impact on the environment.
A little information is a dangerous thing. A lot of information, if it's inaccurate or confusing, even more so. This is a problem for anyone trying to spend or invest in an environmentally sustainable way. Investors are barraged with indexes purporting to describe companies' eco-credentials, some of dubious quality.
Comprehensive assessments of final consumption have identified "housing" as a major contributor to total environmental impacts. Within this category, electrical-energy-using products are important.
Since the recent, very tangible manifestations of the multiple crises in our economic, environmental, and social systems, there is increasing recognition of the need to change how we do things. This has led to the more regular use of words such as transition, transformation, and eco-innovation, especially in areas of environmental and industrial research but also in economic contexts.
REINVENTING the wheel was not exactly what Myshkin Ingawale had in mind when he set out from NIT-Bhopal to MIT, with a stopover at IIM Calcutta. But the 27-year-old
