Caring for the earth The World Environment Day 2007's agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues.
State sitting on hazardous waste time bomb There are 1,565 industries in the state that generate hazardous waste. These include chemical, electronic, electroplating, fertilisers and manufacturers of drug intertermidiaries industries.
Addressing greed within us Consumerism has become the way of life for global citizen in which we crave constantly for new products in search of happiness. As a consequence we are never satisfied, or there is no contentment. As a result urban India produces 1.2 lakh tonnes of rubbish every day, which we cannot handle.
Stall environmental perils Environmental pollution is a cumulative output of the entire gamut of human activities that have taken place on earth since man began to clear the forests to settle down and start agriculture.
A very inconvenient truth about meat There is not enough fish in the worlds oceans to feed 6.6 billion human beings and another 10 billion domestic animals. That is why all the worlds commercial fisheries are collapsing. That is why whales, seals, dolphins and seabirds are starving.
A child protester holds a rocker shaped into a skull with gas mask to symbolize toxic waste during a picket at the Philippine Senate which is conducting a special session on Monday in Manila to protest the controversial Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) entered into by both countries. The protesters are urging the Senate to delete the toxic wastes from the controversial agreement to ensure the country's
Is the State Government justified in derecognising 2,215 primary schools which were teaching in English medium after obtaining permission for Kannada medium?
Over 3.5 lakh students are affected by the decision.
We invite our readers to express their opinion in 100 words.
The responses may be sent to Deccan Herald, No 75, M G Road, Bangalore - 560001 or e-mail: editordh@deccanherald.co.in latest by 2 pm on Saturday.
A selection of responses will be published in Sunday’s edition of the newspaper.
