So you buy fair-trade or eco-friendly products, and you think that is
a good thing, right? Think again. What if so-called 'ethical consumers'
are the very o...
Monitoring carbon is a key corporate social
responsibility issue. Carbon management and reduction, particularly within the
built environment, construct...
If in 2007 you were to tell
someone that just four years later we would live in a world where banks
are nationalized (to bail out a failed economic system), n...
That Umesh Kant Pandey died in a blaze of
last-minute front-page glory is beside the point. That he died a totally
useless death because of the careless impul...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was an alien
term for the majority of Indian businesses until a few years back. The 'term'
became a 'concept' ove...
The cold hard truth, as we know, is that the mismanagement and over-consumption of
natural resources is unsustainable. According
to UNEP's International
Reso...
When an established cinema actor"and one
who hails from one of the 'first' 'Bollywood' 'families'"asserts that he will
not permit his daughter to join the sam...
In the eyes of a newcomer, most things commonplace appear to be out of the league of ordinary and seem to be very bright on the edge of their comprehension. Two...
In the spirit of the theme of the conference I attended in
Bonn (Resilient Cities: 2nd Annual World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to
Climate Change...
