Visitors: 347 Dr Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. [themify_quote]Reflections of Robert J. Burrowes’ Essay: “Life on Earth is Dying”[/themify_quote] Robert J. Burrowes’ article, “Life on Earth is Dying’” (Transcend Media Service, Dec 12, 2016) is one of the most important articles of our times. Burrowes writes with informed conviction of the disastrous consequences of humankind’s presence […]
Visitors: 535 George Monbiot Columnist, The Guardian , UK Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice. A wave of revulsion rolls around the world. Approval ratings for incumbent leaders are everywhere collapsing. Symbols, slogans and sensation trump facts and nuanced argument. One in six […]
Visitors: 296 George Monbiot Columnist, The Guardian, UK The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet. This is humanity’s great paradox. We are the only animal capable of sustained empathy and altruism towards unrelated beings. And we are the only animal that murders so […]
Visitors: 354 Dr Gary G Kohls is a retired physician from Duluth, MN, USA. He writes a weekly column for the Duluth Reader, the area’s alternative newsweekly magazine. His columns deal with the dangers of American fascism, corporatism, militarism, racism, malnutrition, Big Pharma’s psychiatric drugging and over-vaccination regimens, and other movements that threaten the environment, health, democracy, […]
Visitors: 435 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ On the day that you read this article, […]
Visitors: 317 Lifting of the Moratorium from Vapi, Ankleshwar & Vatva is a set back to environment protection and for those affected by industrial pollution in the area. It appears that the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is now merged with the Ministry of Commerce and Industries. Our struggle on ground […]
Dr Gursharan Singh KainthDirector General,Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development StudiesCity based noted economist Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth has been recognized for his unwearied research efforts with Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2017 by the award committee of GRABS Educational Charitable Trust Chennai. The award carries a certificate and trophy in the winner’s name […]
Visitors: 558 Smt Rama Rauta Founder & Convener, Save Ganga Movement Member, Expert Advisory Committee, Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of WR,RD&GR, Govt. of India Former Expert Member, National Ganga River Basin Authority, Govt. of India President, National Women’s Organization, Pune Ganga symbolizes all rivers, water bodies and aquatic life; Giriraj Himalaya symbolizes all mountains, forests and […]
Visitors: 352 Officials have identified two new sites for the greater one-horned rhinoceros in northern West Bengal in India: Buxa Tiger Reserve and a small reserve in Patlakhawa in Cooch Behar. All of the 250 rhinos in West Bengal are concentrated in just two locations — Jaldapara and Gorumara National Parks. Forest officials say rhino […]
Visitors: 333 ERIC A. HOWALD Managing Editor, Keizertimes, USA Dr. Pritam Rohila thinks a lot about peace, mostly because he’s witnessed the horrors conflict conjures. Pritam was born in Rupar, India, when it was still ruled by British colonialists. When he was 11 years old, Britain gave up control over the land, but not before […]
Visitors: 283 Only by crossing social boundaries and coming together can we resist the forces that threaten to crush us. If there is an irrepressible human trait, it’s the determination, against all odds, to reconnect. Though governments seek to atomise and rule, we will keep finding ways to come together. Our social brains forbid any […]
Visitors: 373 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ As the evidence mounts that we […]
Visitors: 321 It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change. Do they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments like ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change, haven’t the faintest idea what it means. Either that, or they have no intention […]
Visitors: 294 Large-scale conversion of forests to crop lands has caused Indian summer monsoon rainfall to decline, particularly in north and northeast India, researchers say. Large-scale deforestation in India has resulted in a decline in rainfall, especially in north and northeast India, a new study has found. Deforestation has resulted in a decline in evapotranspiration […]
Visitors: 270 “When I understood Darwin that I saw how totally wrong that point of view was,( his religious beliefs) that rather suddenly scales fell from my eyes and I then became rather strongly anti-religious at that point”: stated Richard Dawkins, contemporary world’s leading supporter of Darwin’s evolution theory, and a proclaimed anti-religious crusader, in his […]
Visitors: 284 Leo F. Saldanha Coordinator, Environment Support Group Sanjeev Kumar Delhi Forum [themify_hr color=”red”] We write as concerned citizens and environmental justice activists in support of Piyush Sethia of Salem, Tamil Nadu who has been arrested, denied bail and beaten inside Salem Central prison. Piyush is a noted environmental activist of Salem Citizen’s Forum […]
Visitors: 193 Jason Hickel PhD [themify_quote]It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion[/themify_quote] Earlier this year media outlets around the world announced that February had broken global temperature records by a shocking amount. March broke all the records too. In June, our screens were […]
Visitors: 265 Jason Hickel PhD How do we measure inequality? From some angles, things appear to be improving, but from others the situation is getting worse and worse It’s familiar news by now. Oxfam’s figures have gone viral: the richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world’s population combined. Global inequality […]
Visitors: 976 Jason Hickel PhD [themify_quote]We need to stop pretending that the United States, France and Britain are benevolent champions of the poor[/themify_quote] When it comes to international affairs, western politicians love to celebrate their devotion to development. In her flagship speech on development as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton offered stories about US aid […]
Visitors: 127 DATE: 01st FEBRUARY, 2016 VENUE: Gandhi Peace Foundation, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi. TIME: 05:30PM to 08:30PM INVITATION: FEBRUARY 1, 2016 – GANDHI PEACE FOUNDATION, BEUN VIVIR DIALOGUE SERIES South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) invites you to the next lecture in the USHA PAREKH MEMORIAL DIALOGUE SERIES on ‘Meaning of […]
Visitors: 138 DATE: 01st FEBRUARY, 2016 VENUE: Gandhi Peace Foundation, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi. TIME: 05:30PM to 08:30PM INVITATION: FEBRUARY 1, 2016 – GANDHI PEACE FOUNDATION, BEUN VIVIR DIALOGUE SERIES South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) invites you to the next lecture in the USHA PAREKH MEMORIAL DIALOGUE SERIES on ‘Meaning of […]
Visitors: 178 Brussels, Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, I was very glad to accept the invitation of the European Policy Centre. Not only because I recognise EPC as one of the best think-tanks in Brussels, presided by no other than former Council President, Herman Van Rompuy. But also because the launch of the Task Force […]
Visitors: 195 Brussels, Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, I was very glad to accept the invitation of the European Policy Centre. Not only because I recognise EPC as one of the best think-tanks in Brussels, presided by no other than former Council President, Herman Van Rompuy. But also because the launch of the Task Force […]
Visitors: 1,661 [themify_box] Jason Hickel PhD anthropologist at the London School of Economics and author of The Divide: A New History of Global Inequality. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2011. [/themify_box] [themify_quote]As the UN’s new sustainable development goals are launched in New York, there’s little to celebrate about the business-as-usual approach[/themify_quote] […]
Visitors: 248 Ravinder Singh Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS, a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power, Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Project. When Morarjee Desai visited a CPWD site in 1978, there was not a drop of water supplied to 600 flats including 30 Senior IAS Officers, I made JUNK […]