NUS Masters in Environmental Management 10th Anniversary Celebrations
By Bhavani Prakash Given the complex nature of
By Bhavani Prakash Don’t most processed foods such as chocolates, crisps and beverages taste so addictively good? One of the reasons is because there’s a plethora of chemicals that is diligently researched and…
Dec 5 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash 2011 is the International Year of Forests, and I thought it fitting to conclude the year…
Dec 30 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash A historic tribunal, the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) was held in Bangalore, India from 3rd to…
Dec 10 2011 / No Comment / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash This has been a week of climate pessimism. First, The Guardian on Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011…
Nov 11 2011 / No Comment / Read More »Rice means life and survival for billions of people. Relying on a narrow range of rice strains grown in monocultures…
Oct 13 2011 / No Comment / Read More »Anne Leonard: The Story of Broke
Vandana Shiva speaks at Right2Know March
The Light Bulb Conspiracy: The Story of Planned Obsolescence
Nero’s Guests and Farmer Suicides in India
The Source Project
Power Shift 2011
Mira Shiva: Health Effects of GM Foods
Vandana Shiva: Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity and Sustainable Living
Video Review – Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
The Climate Challenge: Voices from Pakistan
Dr Vandana Shiva’s Sydney Peace Prize Lecture: Time to End War on Earth
Songs on Climate Change
Annie Leonard: The Story of Electronics
FLOW – Water Privatisation (Documentary)
by Karthik Kumar Organic farming is coming under attack from many quarters, even as awareness spreads that it is a more sustainable and healthier way to live. Criticism range from doubts about its lack of capacity to feed the world to bogies being raised about people having to return to the ’dark ages’ of food…
Mar 11 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash This has been a week of climate pessimism. First, The Guardian on Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011 quoted the International Energy Association (IEA)’s warning that the world is headed for irreversible climate change in only 5 years. The article says: “If the world is to stay below 2C of warming, which scientists regard as…
Nov 11 2011 / No Comment / Read More »by Bhavani Prakash I’m very happy to note that the article on “How to Make and Use Garbage Enzymes” has stirred a lot of discussion and this has been an opportunity to clarify where the science lies. I had endorsed Garbage Enzymes enthusiastically as I have personally heard gardeners speak of the positively about the…
Mar 4 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »by Eugene Tay Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde Nature Society (Singapore) (NSS) has submitted a proposal,The Green Corridor: A Proposal to Keep the Railway Lands as a Continous Green Corridor, to the Singapore government on 21 October 2010. NSS proposes to retain the current KTM…
Mar 26 2011 / No Comment / Read More »A brand New Year, a brand New Decade! A great time to ponder over all the good and not so good green stuff over the last decade, and in particular 2009. An appropriate time too, to look ahead in anticipation of the decade ahead. I’ve compiled a “mega list of green lists” that I really enjoyed poring…
Jan 3 2010 / 1 Comment / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash One of the so-called “successes” of the COP16 Climate Summit at Cancun, Mexico last year was the proposed $30 billion annual payment from developed countries to developing…
Jun 2 2011 / 4 Comments / Read More »
At Eco WALK the Talk, the question “Can Organic Farming Feed the World? is a recurring one which we’ve tried to answer…
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by Bhavani Prakash Several decades have lapsed since the “Green Revolution” promoting large scale agriculture and intensive use of pesticides, yet nearly…
Jan 16 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »
by Bhavani Prakash Allowing a beautiful large mammal that has evolved over millions of years to disappear forever, is a monumental failure…
Sep 7 2010 / 5 Comments / Read More »
Janet Unruh is a person who believes that everything can be recycled 100% – provided we learn how to design things properly…
Aug 13 2010 / 1 Comment / Read More »Book Review by Jennie Wilson Fukuoka starts this little gem of a book with a seemingly harsh remark by saying: “Humanity knows nothing at all. There is no intrinsic value…
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