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Cloudy days for solar cooker

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Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade old promotion campaign, only a few Indians own solar cookers and fewer still use them. Is the design, which is incompatible to Indian conditions, t

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Weaving a common destiny

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The weavers of Kabir Basti had just two resources: wool and their own talent. With this they transformed their lives

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Technology driven by ideology

Research on solar cookers has remained the enclave of Gandhian innovators

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Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins

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Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed

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Death of the Indus delta

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It was from the port towns of this region that Arab dhows laden with merchandise set sail for distant towns in the days of yore. Today, these towns lie deserted -- an eloquent comment on the ecological devastation that has visited the Indus del

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Cracking down on eco crime

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Polluters of the environment are now increasingly being regarded as criminals. In New Jersey, there's a new breed of police personnel who are authorised to book them

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Figuring out natural costs

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Many economists now argue that nature cannot be the provider of a perpetual free lunch. It's time to account for natural resource degradation while drawing up balance sheets

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Sketchy estimates

The government is basing economic policies on rough calculations of the value of trees

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A test run

Norway's experience shows that resource accounting is not enough, political will to change things is just as imperative

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Building up a dangerous trend

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JUST 55 seconds in duration, it left 1,000 people dead. The earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, which devastated the hills of Uttarkashi, Tehri Garhwal and Chamoli districts in UP last October, also left 20 per cent of the houses in the region totally destroyed or severely damaged.

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