Reducing Carbon Footprint – A Small Initiative
Delhi holds the undesirable record of being the most polluted capital city in the world. The air quality in Delhi falls in the ‘severe’ category most of the year round and the delhites get some respite only during rains. Most of the pollution in Delhi is due to...
शर्म और चुप्पी होगी ख़त्म जब हम बहनें होंगी संग
हमारा समाज जितना स्वच्छ और सुरक्षित पुरुषों के लिए है उतना महिलाओं के लिए नहीं है। खासतौर पर औरतों के शरीर और स्वास्थ्य को लेकर। औरतों को प्रत्येक महीने मासिक धर्म के चक्र से होकर गुजरना पड़ता है जहाँ शारीरिक पीड़ा के साथ उसे तमाम सामाजिक पीड़ा भी सहनी पड़ती है। भारत...
2nd South Asian Regional Seminar on ICT and Action Research for Community Resilience
Participation Report by Alisha Khan To have a significant impact on poverty and inequality and keeping the changing pattern of climate into consideration, a 2-day event entitled, ‘South Asian Regional Seminar on ICT and Knowledge Management’ was organized by Oxfam...
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Problems and Challenges
1.1. Introduction - In the hullabaloo of the then forthcoming general election in India, most of us including the national media, overlooked a very significant development in another continent – Africa – in geological past it used to be India’s neighbour.J 44 out of...
Update from the Rotterdam Convention [COP9]
The Rotterdam Convention (RC), which was adopted in September 1998 and entered into force on 24 February 2004, creates legally-binding obligations for the implementation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure. The fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the...
Earth Day (22 April 2019) observed at Environics Office, New Delhi
Earth day which takes place on 22 April every year was observed celebrated at the office of Environics Trust at New Delhi. The event was an effort towards making people aware regarding the current deteriorating scenario of mother Earth. Users of Sanitary Napkins made...
Time to act- STOP Brazilian Asbestos Exports!
India Ban Asbestos Network Members along with other international Network representatives came together to demand for an end to asbestos mining and export in Brazil- one of the world’s leading asbestos-producing countries. India being one of the top three consumer of...
Report on National Women’s Convention
Report on the National Women’s Convention held on 12 February 2019 in New Delhi The Convention was started by Shabnam Hashmi who is a social activist, a rebel, a fearless fighter and a human rights defender. She works on questions related to democracy, secularism,...
Participatory Planning of Workbook
Environics Trust is aiming to develop a workbook on Panna and Chhatarpur districts for further informative planning and execution of governmental and non-governmental schemes and practises. The meeting started with the purpose and meaning of workbook. Workbook is a...
Relevance of DMF
The legal emergence of District Mineral Foundation from the 2015 MMDR amendment Act and its implementation framework rolled out in September 2015 or scheme called PMKKKY (Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna) threw light on two things; one that it is an...
- Along The Burnt Coal Corridor…
- Musings from Near and Far
- A day to remember – Coal Satyagraha – The article appeared in Times of India
- Nature’s Trail by John Seed – This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949)
- Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
- Airbender – Air Quality Monitoring Map