Asha Edmund is an award winning Singaporean singer and composer, steadily making a name in the international dance music scene. She shares with us six songs with an environmental theme that have touched her. SONGS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT By Asha Edmund Combing the internet for environmental songs showed me just how many artists feel the [...]
India’s installed wind power capacity at 11.8 GW (Gigawatts) is fifth in the world, with the US leading at 35GW and China second at 25GW. The installed wind power capacity in India accounts for 6% of the total and generates for 1.6% of the country’s power, similar to the US where wind accounts for 2% [...]
“While we can do many things to reduce our carbon emissions, many of these things are much less effective than changing our diet which, in terms of individual action, is the best thing we can do.” – JAMES HANSEN Meat-free days are a campaign to reduce anthropogenic climate change and improve human health and animal [...]
Matt Harvey is a poet, broadcaster, writer and well known stand-up comedy artist in the UK. He is one of Radio 4′s Saturday Live‘s poets and performs widely in the UK in colleges, literary festivals and events. He’s also the founder of Wondermentalist, a movement which fuses poetry, music and humour. Matt has graciously allowed [...]
“The Tragedy of the Commons” was a term first introduced by Garrett Hardin in Science in 1968. He described how people acting independently and solely out of self interest are likely to overuse a common limited resource, leading to its eventual depletion - even though this is against everyone’s long term interest. The theory helps [...]
by Bhavani Prakash An Update on 9th September, 2010 Greenpeace India have now launched Version 2 of the Safe Food Guide to highlight the companies which guarantee that they do not use genetically modified content, and those who don’t give such guarantee. A pocket guide has also been issued by them which show the brands in India [...]
by Bhavani Prakash Allowing a beautiful large mammal that has evolved over millions of years to disappear forever, is a monumental failure of human civilisation. Yet the extinction of the baiji dolphin of the Yangtze river is no longer on people’s radar screens. Why do we need to keep the story alive? How do we [...]
