Sustainable Business
Climate change and the boatman
Teresa Rehman Traditional boatmen and boat builders on the Brahmaputra are essential in Assam, but they are facing new challenges as climate change leads […]
Category: Resources
Education
A citizen science revolution?
FreshWater Watch At World Water Week, our lead research scientist Professor Steven Loiselle, spoke at numerous seminars to share the achievements of you, our […]
Sustainable Business
Welcome to Masdar City: the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living
Susan Lee Masdar City was designed to be zero-carbon and zero-waste, home to a population of 40,000 people Ten years ago in the […]
Sustainable Business
Can upscale chocolate turn the tide on Haiti’s devastating deforestation?
Meg Wilcox With 98 percent of their trees gone, Haitians eye cocoa-based agroforestry as a way to combat poverty and renew the land When […]
Biodiversity
The wonder of sighting the Indian Grey Hornbill in Bangalore
MARIANNE DE NAZARETH The flight feathers of the wing are dark brown with a whitish tip. The tail has a white tip and a […]
Environment
Paraguay Government defies order to protect un-contacted tribe
The Paraguayan government has failed to act to protect a group of uncontacted tribal people, despite having been ordered to do so in February […]
Food
NGO focus: Work of ASODECOM, Burundi
Contra Nocdendi International/NGO partner ASODECOM is a civil society organisation in Burundi that engages in human rights and development issues through programs, advice and advocacy. A significant […]
Disasters
Drought management: Successes in Solapur, India
Vijay Krishna The Solapur model under a Maharashtra government programme stands as a real example that could be successfully emulated On being urged to by […]
Soil
Reinstating the traditional rainwater harvesting systems in water deficient district of Alwar, India
Shachi Chaturvedi A 2016 interim report done by Sehgal Foundation on the project points out that water harvesting structures under Jaldhaara have conserved 714,431 […]
Sustainable Business
China’s ‘new Silk Road’ could expand Asia’s deserts
Liu Qin China’s massive Asian infrastructure network of proposed new roads and railways, new ports and airports, linking 65 countries to itself must grapple […]
Sustainable Business
Looking at malnutrition in Karnataka, India during National Nutrition Week
Marianne de Nazareth Over 1.2 million children in Karnataka in the age group of 0-6 years are malnourished and underweight, says a government report Reading […]
Biodiversity
RE(D)D is BAD!
Rafał Chudy My view about the UN-REDD is very straightforward: it simply does not work and will never do, as it is based […]
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