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Cover Story
Farming: a good career
561,220 hectares of agricultural land in Andhra Pradesh is now free of synthetic pesticides. About 340,000 farmers in 3,000 villages find profits in not using those chemicals. In these villages, indebtedness is down.
This in a state that symbolized agrarian distress
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Agro-culture gets its due
Let business lose
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Really special economic zone
Farmers developed a township, Magarpatta City, on Pune’s outskirts. They run the show, too
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| Environment for children |
A ‘USE’-LESS GEN!!
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| KNOW HOW |
 Through education and training programmes understand issues of environment and development policy, poverty, democracy and equity. (download pdf)
ANNUAL CALENDAR 2008-2009 |
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 to be Screened at India International Centre’s auditorium
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Students from the University of Oslo, Norway, explore the paradoxes confronting India, and some traditional means that offer simple solutions
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| Special coverage |
| Bali: No rich polluters' beach party |
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Climate Change: The Road to Bali and Beyond
A re-look at key issues and concerns.
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Slideshow
Tongue-in-cheek: Cartoons |
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| Green Schools Award |
Punjab felicitates Green School awardees
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| Campaign: Right to Clean Air |
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Click here to download CSE's letter to Mr. P Chidambaram (.pdf)
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Rs. 1 lakh car
Low cost, high risk
Convergence
Health, climate and vehicles |
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| Dieselisation |
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Diesel cars
Make sense for India? (.ppt)
Event highlights
Roundtable on diesel (.ppt)
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Down To Earth correspondent and citizen-village journalist file pictures of the devastating fire of burning hazardous waste at the Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Limited (BEIL).
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| Green Schools Award 2008 |
 The awards were announced during a gala event on 18 December 2008 at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
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Press release:
December 18, 2008
Delhi, Kerala schools corner India’s ‘greenest’ school awards
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CSE’s Green Schools Programme (GSP)
The Green Schools Programme of CSE is the brainchild of the Centre’s Environment Education Unit, or EEU.
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| Green Rating Network |
 CSE invites people to participate in its Green Rating programme. Under this programme, we rate industries based on their environmental performance.
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| River Pollution Updates |
The Ganga has been accorded ‘national’ status by the Prime Minister of India on November 4, 2008. But will this bring back the river's lost beauty and pride? Factsheets on pollution, the Ganga Action Plan & more... |
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| Jan sabha (public meeting) on pollution in Pali |
On October 1, 2008, Pali witnessed a unique jan sabha (public meeting) wherein the farmers, industry and the government sat together to discuss the solutions to deal with a long pending issue of pollution in the river Bandi and Luni.
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| Media Fellowship |
First CSE Media Fellowship for the South Asian Region
(Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
October 27-December 27, 2008
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| Climate Alert |
September 3, 2008
Equitywatch in climate : CSE/Down To Earth occasional alert
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| Right to Clean Air campaign |
Policy Police
Hush-hush public notice on emissions norms
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Action Alert
On electric drive:
State governments have begun to provide support to electric vehicles.
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Fuel prices: correcting distortions
Correcting distortions
B K Chaturvedi Committee report
Smog Digest
August 2008
Many developments on the vehicular pollution front in India captured from a selection of news clippings from 60 national & international news sources.
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| Book release |
CSE cordially invites you to attend the release of its 6th State of India’s Environment report: Rich Lands, Poor People: Is Sustainable Mining Possible?
Shri Rameshwar Thakur,
Governor of Karnataka will release the report in Bangalore on
Monday, August 4, 2008
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| Book & film release |
 CSE’s manual & film on wastewater recycling |
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| Training programmes |
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Urban rainwater harvesting
Advanced course for working professionals
January 19-23, 2009
 Learn the science, techniques and policies on urban rainwater harvesting. Practical exercises and field visits to prepare you to find solutions to the urban water crisis.
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 January 27-30, 2009
Domestic wastewater treatment and reuse for engineers, architects, builders
New
Delhi
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| Response |
CSE responds to comments issued by the Chhattisgarh government, following the release in Raipur of CSE’s 6th State of India’s Environment Report...
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See also: Press release
May 23, 2008
We stand by our report”: CSE responds to Chhattisgarh government’s criticism
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| Web dossiers |
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Diesel: Is India heading to a public health catastrophe? |
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| Water: Industry pays a pittance for the water it wastes |
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| Drip irrigation: Innovating with sustainable irrigation |
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 Anil Agarwal Reader
A decade of incisive commentary on environment-development issues.
Available in three volumes, puts together the weekly essays/opinion pieces written by eminent environmentalist and journalist Anil Agarwal between 1991 and 2001.
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 Sewage Canal
Analyses the strategies adopted to clean up the Yamuna, one of India's holiest and dirtiest rivers.
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| Action alert |
 Action alert: Delhi's interceptor sewer project
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| Is the Delhi government's Rs 1,950-crore project to lay 'interceptor' sewers to clean the river Yamuna just more money down the drain? |
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Sunita Narain on climate change
At the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in Georgetown, Guyana |
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| Policy paper on NREGA |
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Press release
March 31, 08 |
| NREGA has huge potential for rural development if it remains focused on creating village assets |
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| NREGA policy paper [.pdf] |
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Recommendations
CSE suggests changes to make NREGA a development tool |
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| Photo infopack
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| NREGA: Background paper |
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| Press releases |
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October 20, 2008
Meghalaya Governor releases CSE’s study
on mining, people and environment
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August 11, 2008
National Portal on Environment launched by Sam Pitroda, chair National Knowledge Commission
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August 06, 2008
Despite massive investments, India lagging behind in wind energy
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August 04, 2008
CSE report says Karnataka gains little from mining
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July 21, 2008
Fuel economy standards for cars a step in the right direction: CSE
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June 05, 2008
Fuel price hike without measures to check oil guzzling is meaningless: CSE
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June 02, 2008
CSE's analysis of Automotive Research Association of India's CO2 emissions data points to increased oil guzzling from newer personal cars at a time when oil prices are skyrocketing
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Carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles increasing (.pdf)
Avert the great guzzle (.pdf) |
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May 21, 2008
Commuters – including car owners – support the BRT overwhelmingly: finds random survey by CSE and Delhi Greens
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| The perception survey: Bus rapid transit system (BRT) [pdf] |
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May 07, 2008
Nargis not just a natural disaster, but a human-made disaster
because of climate change
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| April 25, 2008 |
To contain Delhi’s growing air pollution and congestion, BRT is a step in the right direction -- says Bhure Lal of the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) and Sunita Narain, director, CSE
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| April 08, 2008 |
Vishakhapatnam
Rich Lands, Poor People -- Is Sustainable Mining Possible?
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| March 28, 2008 |
Jharkhand governor releases CSE’s study on mining
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[February06 2008]
Clean air before the Games: will Delhi go the Beijing way?
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