Environment and Economic Development: Sustainable Development

Our natural environment includes all living and non living things like land, forests, minerals, water bodies, the atmosphere, etc. While some of these resources may be renewable others get depleted and ultimately exhausted with their continuous use…

The Western World and Causa Ignorantia

Before this piece of writing gets discarded as the ranting of someone who is still in the colonial era, I would like to present my stance on the issue in a manner that is not very commonly reported in the mainstream media. Not much of…

Save Oil, Save Gas, Save our Future

I woke up startled with a disbelieving look on my face. Is it possible? For a moment I had dreamt about a world, conscious about its natural reserves and keen on saving them, thus ensuring a blissful future not only for themselves…

Medical Wastes and Its Disposal

Health care is vital for our life, health and well being. But the wastes generated thus can be hazardous, toxic and even lethal because of their high potential for disease transmission. Hospital waste or Health Care waste should…

The Energy Crisis – When the Lights Go Out

Ever since man first noticed the brilliance of the flickering yellow fiery flames, we have strived to illuminate our homes and bring light into our darkness filled worlds. Today, we are lighting more bulbs, powering more machines and guzzling…

The Development Myopia

The manner in which the models of developed economies have evolved has been on the central foundations of exploitation of resources of the not so developed yet resource rich nations. However while this has resulted…

Deforestation: Challenge of the century

When we were kids we were taught the importance of trees and why we should not to cut trees. Trees inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen which in turn is used by us, the human beings, for the survival. …

Energy Conservation and Security: A Key to Sustainable Development

At a time when the entire world is experiencing an economic downturn and a changing geopolitical situation, another crisis seems to be looming large over the horizon. The question of Energy Security has been one that has…

Machine versus Mankind

Let us begin on a sarcastic note, in the words of George Carlin:“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, for strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.Dear Earth, man sheds his waste on thee,and hides the pines with

Climate Change and Us

Climate Change (CC) is the most burning issue these days. The potential effect of CC is a key concern for the environmental science community and the government of any nation. The degrees at which human conditions and the natural environment…

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