India unveils National Action Plan on Climate Change

The Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, recently unveiled a National Action plan on climate change. This plan has been strategically designed to promote sustainable development, but without any commitment to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Read this Time of India article to get more information about the plan.
Perhaps this is a first [...]

Global Food Supply

In this article in MacLean’s Magazine the problem of SD is nicely tied in with the current problems in global food supply.
It talks about a couple of (interrelated) issues:
1. An increasing demand for oil – we’re all aware that this resource is becoming scarcer and harder to find, and therefore (part of the reason) causing oil prices [...]

Lessons from India

Although I will not contradict the evident fact that India has become and now is an ecological disaster, I would like to share some optimistic views about the improvement that the country is currently doing.
First, I would like to highlight that despite a high rate of poverty, the country owns among the most advanced high [...]

If not here, then where?

I saw a particularly disturbing documentary on TV, it was on the ‘recycling’ of PCs and other technological products in poverty regions around the world. On $1 – 2 a day most of these workers could never afford to own the technology that they spend their working life pulling apart, but they can afford to [...]