by Hemant Anant Jain (This essay won an award at the EU Blogging Competition in 2009) “With an apple I will astonish Paris” - CEZANNE I wonder, when did the information age become the misinformation age? Or, in our context, the age of greenwashing. Coca-Cola says they want to become water-neutral and then commit every [...]
Just as the Gulf Coast of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, USA is grappling with a major oil spill from the BP operated offshore rig, the hard reality of an oil spill hit home in Singapore. Two oil tankers collided to spill 2,500 metric tons of crude oil in the Singapore Strait, 13 kms off the [...]
by Julie Ardery Lake Naivasha is at the center of Kenya’s flower production, but now, despite a self-regulating flower council, the lake’s fish are dying. Can the industry adequately police itself? Kenya’s flower industry, after years of success that have induced many other African nations to jump into floral production, took a big hit last [...]
Betty-Khoo Kingsley is an environmental activist based in Singapore, and is the author of the book, “Cancer Cured and Prevented Naturally“ She is creating an organic food garden at Tanjung Sutera Resort, Johor, Malaysia using permaculture and biodynamic farming principles. She has arranged to invite Lee Ringma, a Homa Therapy practitioner from Australia to teach the ancient ayurvedic [...]
By Bhavani Prakash A new report in the US that highlights the link between environmental factors and cancer is of particular relevance to the rest of the world. What are these environmental factors? What actions can individuals take? What are the cancer rates in Asia and should such a study be done here? The ”President’s Cancer Panel” specially [...]
By Dr. Nachiketa Das Global warming is real and upon us. How will global warming affect the rivers in India; will they all dry up? Can the holy Ganges, the river that has shaped and sustained Indian civilisation through the ages, who we Indians revere as the life-giving mother, run dry! Many climate experts and environmentalists, [...]
by Bhavani Prakash There’s a native American proverb that says, “No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” Even the wise indigenous peoples of America could not have foreseen the kind of rapid changes in climate and developmental pressures that have altered the scenarios. The Third Pole is thus [...]
by Hemant Anant Jain This is Mumbai. The city of dreams. This is where people from all across India come to chase their dreams and very often, they chase them successfully. This is Mumbai where I live. Behind this water tanker is my building. It used to be a rather green area. Then the builder [...]
by Bhavani Prakash I was pleasantly surprised and inspired by this passionate letter that arrived in my mailbox about the issue of Climate Refugees and what the UNHCR, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees needs to do to help migrants affected by Climate Change. It’s by Atulya Venkataraman, a Grade V student of UWCSEA, Singapore. It reads thus: [...]
This year’s Goldman Environment Prize, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the Environment, was awarded to 6 Grassroots activists. The causes ranged from saving elephants in Cambodia, sustainable agriculture in Cuba, protecting biodiversity in Poland, protecting the indigenous people against forcible evictions in Swaziland, fighting against water pollution by industrial animal farming in USA and campaigning against [...]
