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My roots with nature are so weak that I fail to understand. . .

A lot is being talked about the sustainable environment in Himalayas and its management these days. There is no doubt that it is getting affected. But how do we manage it?

On this point the question mark exists as previous efforts have yielded little and attempts to improve other services, be it infrastructure, agriculture, irrigation, water supply and to large extent man’s greed to make a few quick bucks…

MoEF's intervention and the order for demolition of the building proves many things:

1. Ineffectiveness of the entire process of EIA / CRZ.
2. Ineffectiveness of the system in which the CRZ / EC and EIA are operational.
3. Looking back at current events particularly in Maharashtra we have three examples where the process has seen troubles Mumbai Airport, Adarsh and Lavassa City. This goes to prove that the procedure has not accounted certain things.
4. It might be…

Dear Friends,

              Season’s Greetings!

Please find…

Dear all

wish you a succesfull and meaningfull great new year ...2011

I Wish all members of Indian Environment Network and their family A HEALTHY WEALTHY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR 2011

International Year of Biodiversity 2010
                  to
International Year of Forest 2011
Celebrating Forests for People
http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/

Sabu

Dear All,

Greetings of the Day!!!

CEPT University is identified as Anchor Institute in Infrastructure Sector by Industries Commissionerate, Government of Gujarat.…

Every professional in the field around is running to get thr coveted accreditation. I would like to have the following things highlighted.

1. The original Notification of 14-09-2006 never called for mandatory accreditation.
2. The compulsion of QCI accreditation has been implemeted by an office memo(OM). There have been so many amendments to the original notification.
3. Legality of the OM becoming a mendate has to be checked. We must recollect the fact that in case of…

EIA has been legislated in India since 1994 as a requirement for Environmental Clearance (EC). We all know that in most cases, conduct of EIA is perceived more as a "permitting tool" than a process that stimulates alternatives, anticipates impacts/risks and prepares a prevention and control strategy/plan and importantly "value adds" to the original project/program…

Phytoremediation is the use of plants and plant processes to remove, degrade or render harmless hazardous materials present in the soil or water. Phytoremediation is a low cost, solar energy driven clean up technique.…

Why we are planning throughout the year to conserve, to save and also to restore the environment? All these planning are not bad but, if we start the work for the

solutions of the problems at least the works which are not required much money,

pain and time also. This will be done in parallel with our personal works.

Every one…

Not a lot of people like this season. I myself claim to have a complicated love-hate relationship with Winter, loving the delightful snow-scapes, and grunting at the surprisingly deep reach of those icy winds. Too bad, it takes a lot of determination to wake up early enough to appreciate the depth and clarity of mornings' freshest thoughts written in the sobering gray sky.. There is no real beauty in this world, but merely infinite…

The world over, the human beings are paying the cost of economic development in terms of the health of self and environment. Global warming, the result of greenhouse gas emissions, is the price the world pays for its ruthless growth. Similarly ozone hole depletion, climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity are some of the few…

The world over, the human beings are paying the cost of economic development in terms of the health of self and environment. Global warming, the result of greenhouse gas emissions, is the price the world pays for its ruthless growth. Similarly ozone hole depletion, climate change, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity are some of the few…

It is well known that the wetlands have rich biodiversity than any other habitat of the world. Based on the approval of National Wetlands Committe held on 16.03.2009, total 115 Wetlands have been identified to conserve Wetlands under National Wetland Conservation…