Category : Viewpoint

So you buy fair-trade or eco-friendly products, and you think that is a good thing, right? Think again. What if so-called ‘ethical consumers’ are the very ones standing between us and sustainable future? I’m crazy, right? Maybe, but here is why I say

  When archaeologists recently announced that they had just discovered the ape-like remains of our primitive ancestors in South Africa, it was hailed as homo sapiens’ ‘missing link’ – the genetic bridge between modern humans and their older, less evolved predecessors. Yet, perhaps

Monitoring carbon is a key corporate social responsibility issue. Carbon management and reduction, particularly within the built environment, construction and facilities management sector should be seen not only within sustainability/environmental terms but also as a lens to understanding wider CSR impact. In ‘Taking

If in 2007 you were to tell someone that just four years later we would live in a world where banks are nationalized (to bail out a failed economic system), nature is privatized (to generate new wealth from ecosystem services), and the Middle

That Umesh Kant Pandey died in a blaze of last-minute front-page glory is beside the point. That he died a totally useless death because of the careless impulse of a raving, thoughtless crook is the point. The point is also that his death

  Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was an alien term for the majority of Indian businesses until a few years back. The ‘term’ became a ‘concept’ over time, yet has remained more alien than not. There are as many interpretations as there are talking

The cold hard truth, as we know, is that the mismanagement and over-consumption of natural resources is unsustainable. According to UNEP’s International Resource Panel (IRP), we need to decouple human well-being from resource consumption by linking local or national development strategies to resource

When an established cinema actor”and one who hails from one of the ‘first’ ‘Bollywood’ ‘families'”asserts that he will not permit his daughter to join the same industry that has earned him and his family wealth, fame, and adulation (and the attendant by-products), the

In the eyes of a newcomer, most things commonplace appear to be out of the league of ordinary and seem to be very bright on the edge of their comprehension. Two such innovative creations in different projects of CARE India also caught my

In the spirit of the theme of the conference I attended in Bonn (Resilient Cities: 2nd Annual World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, June 3″5, 2011), I was pleased to overcome the shock and surprise of the Icelandic volcanic ash