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By Bhavani Prakash Many plant species can lay claim to being a ‘single species supermarket’ where several if not all parts of the plant can be used productively for food, fibre and/or fuel. Three…
May 1 2012 / No Comment / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash Michelle Desilets is Founder and Executive Director of Orangutan Land Trust, a UK-based NGO which supports…
May 7 2012 / No Comment / Read More »By Bhavani Prakash In Dec 2010, 6000 genetically modified (GM) Aedes aegypti sterile male mosquitoes were released in the…
Apr 6 2012 / No Comment / Read More »by Neo Chai Chin With palm oil companies slashing vast swathes of forest, the Dayaks of West Kalimantan are desperately…
Mar 26 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Fires are raging across the slopes of Mt. Kenya in Africa, and they may have been set by poachers…
Mar 21 2012 / No Comment / Read More »India’s Coal Rush (Video)
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
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 Joshua Freedman is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the US based non-profit organisation Six Seconds. Set up in 1997 and now operating in 10 countries with practitioners in around 100 countries, Six Seconds has the mission to spread emotional intelligence far, wide and deep by supporting, “people to create positive change.” EQ(…
Mar 2 2012 / 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…
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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…
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by Bhavani Prakash Allowing a beautiful large mammal that has evolved over millions of years to disappear forever, is a monumental failure…
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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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