Energy conservation is a moving target
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View ArticleA week after the ban
Its been a week since the Supreme Court issued the order for the interim ban on endosulfan. There is no official confirmation on the joint committee yet, when they have to present the interim report...
View ArticleContest for pesticide
A bill to be tabled in Parliament is set to re-ignite an old tussle between the Centre and states. The Pesticides Management Bill of 2008, which will be heard in the Monsoon Session, aims to replace...
View ArticleExcel sends legal notice to scientists
Excel Crop Care is back to attacking scientists. S Ganesan on behalf of Excel Crop Care, the biggest endosulfan manufacturer in the country, has sent a legal notice to the Calicut Medical college for...
View ArticleSupreme Court allows export of endosulfan
Calls for strict monitoring while packaging The Supreme Court has allowed the exports of 1090.596 MT of technical grade endosulfan for which export orders were received prior to the ban on May 13. But...
View ArticleDisposal of Endosulfan begins in Kasaragod
KERALA has started disposing of expired stocks of endosulfan. A task force, chaired by deputy collector of Kasaragod district, started Operation Blossom Spring at a Plantation Corporation of Kerala...
View ArticleThe Kasaragod Declaration
We, the Participants of the National Workshop, that assembled under the Chairmanship of Sri P Karunakaran, MP and that was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of the Kerala State, Sri Oommen...
View ArticleThe Kasaragod Declaration
A National Workshop to develop a Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Rebuilding Program for the Survivors and Rejuvenation of the Eco-systems in the Endosulfan affected areas of Kasaragod District, was...
View ArticleWhen battered people took on the pesticide industry
Today, I want to tell you a true story of extraordinary courage. The past week, I was in Kasaragod, a district in Kerala, splendid in beauty and with abundant natural resources, but destroyed by the...
View ArticleCSE’s national conference on food safety and environmental toxins kicks off
Puts the limelight on lax regulations, weak enforcementRelated Articles: Workshop ProgrammeSouth Asian Media BriefingPress ReleasesNew Delhi, Feb. 21, 2013Paradigm shift in India’s health policy...
View ArticleOver 97 per cent of homes in Kerala’s urban areas have toilets, but the state...
Kerala needs to understand how sewage and excreta flow through its cities and identify intervention areasRelated Articles: Agenda List of Participants read more
View ArticleMeeting and Book Release of ‘Not in my Backyard’ in Thiruvananthapuram,...
A one day meeting on Solid Waste Management was conducted in association with Kerala’s Sanitation Programme, called Suchitwa Mission on 16th March, 2017 in Padmam Auditorium, Institute of Management in...
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