Mississippi Damned: The Tale of a Lost River Left with only Sound and Fury
Mississippi is a phenomenon. A large body of water flowing down a slope towards the sea is perceived as so many disparate things by different people at different times and places. Some say that if you want to understand the continent, you have to understand this...
Husky Robot Delivers Water to Villagers in South India: Rural Innovations
This could be the perfect solution to India’s water crisis. This is also the perfect marriage of rural development and digital transformation technologies such as robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). A four wheeled robot is now delivering water at a village in...
How Karl Marx and Communist Manifesto talk Environment Sustainability
Some of Karl Marx's Ideas can be linked to to the idea of Sustainability and Sustainable Development. The World Environment Day was observed recently. A young JNU student Banojyotsna Lahiri who recently passed out from JNU and is teaching in Ambedkar University posted...
How PM Jawaharlal Nehru Addressed Environmental Degradation
Whenever the issue of environment and sustainable development is taken up for discussion people invariably take a quote or two from the Brundtland Commission report of 1987, the Limits to Growth report of the Club of Rome of 1972 or some other UN Document of 1980s....
Using Agricultural Waste to Grow Mushrooms: Innovations in Sustainability
Do you remember how the national capital city of Delhi became a gas chamber after Diwali, with immense air pollution? One of the major reasons was the burning of agricultural stubble by farmers in Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. Though the Delhi government tried...
Is the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project (SSP) good for India?
In order to assess if the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project (SSP) is good or bad for India, we need a credible assessment of costs, benefits, and impacts once the huge project is completed. First of all, the project is incomplete (even after down-scaling canal...
How River Ganga Is Leaving the Ghats of Patna
The Ganga, which is already in bad shape due to increasing pollution and decreasing water, is now also swiftly moving away from its banks in Patna, the capital of the Indian state of Bihar. No scientific attempt has been made to deal with the crisis, warn experts and...
Mahatma Gandhi and Sustainable Development
The theme of sustainable development has evolved with the evolution of human civilization. The very beginning of human society and its onward march is woven critically around this concept which has assumed significance for the survival of the modern civilization and...
India, China Have Same Pattern of Air Pollution: Nita Soans, CEO, Kaiterra
According to the latest report released by the World Health Organization, India has the dubious distinction of hosting 14 out of 15 of the world’s most polluted cities. Kanpur tops the list. The other cities are Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra,...
Eco-friendly, biodegradable sanitary napkins invented by 2 India students
Sanitary pads, usually available in the market, are made of 90 per cent plastic. Their disposal contributes to the toxic plastic waste. However, now a biodegradable alternative to it has been developed. Two Indian students, Niveda R and Gowtham...
10 Easy Ways for Environmental Conservation and Biodiversity
As it is said, it’s never too late to start a good work, so as an individual it is our duty to save our mother earth. The question is how! Striking a right balance is the key to sustainable living, thus, reducing the impact on the environment. What is also important...
Exploring the Various Dimensions of Rural Energy and Development
Development is the expansion of people’s capabilities (Sen, 1999). Sen highlights in his book “Development as Freedom,1999” that development is not measured in terms of the economic growth of a country but instead measured in terms of the increase in the capabilities...