Concrete riverfronts or ecological rejuvenation
A two-day Dialogue on urban rivers held in Pune recently focused on the plight of urban rivers. Shripad Dharmadhikary reports and presents his views.
THE NEWS IN PROPORTION
21 June 2018
Environment
URBAN RIVERS
Concrete riverfronts or ecological rejuvenation
Concrete riverfronts or ecological rejuvenation
CAG AUDIT IN ODISHA
Waiting for compliance patiently
Himanshu Upadhyaya examines a CAG audit report to point out the blatant non-compliance of environmental laws largely by the Forest officials.
TEESTA STAGE III HEP
Violating laws, making losses, damaging environment
Teesta Urja’s penchant for getting into trouble and illegalities continues unabated. Soumik Dutta reports. 
MAHANADI WATER DISPUTE
Setback for optimal river basin planning
Shripad Dharmadhikary explains why setting up a tribunal to resolve the Mahanadi Water Dispute will not help the people or the river.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Major problems of our time are all interconnected
Recently Darryl D’Monte interviewed the famous physicist Fritjof Capra at the annual meet of Greenaccord international environmental journalists in Italy. Here he reports on Capra’s separate remarks about the environment, along with quotes from his books and blogs.
DELHI POLLUTION
Forget politics, focus on smog science
It’s not the crop burning, stupid. It’s vehicles that create smog and the media should educate the public. Anup Kumar explains.
MINING IN ODISHA
More money for more dust
Harapriya Nayak and Santosh Dora share their experience of working with the tribals of a small village in Odisha, who were suffering because of heavy mining happening in their area and how they brought about a change.
HIGH SPEED TRAIN
Will biting the Bullet Train leave us with no teeth?
Darryl D'Monte analyses why the proposed Bullet Train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is not the need of the hour, nor worth the cost.
BOOK REVIEW
Indira Gandhi’s elite environmentalism : a paler shade of green
Darryl D’Monte reviews Indira Gandhi – A Life in Nature , a new book focussing on Indira Gandhi as a naturalist.
LARGE HYDROPOWER PROJECTS
Throwing good money after bad
Shripad Dharmadhikary critically examines the proposed push for hydro power projects in the recently released Draft National Energy Policy for public comments by NITI Aayog.
MUMBAI FLOODS
Mumbai after the 2005 deluge
July 26, 2017 marked the 12th anniversary of Mumbai’s mega flood in 2005. Darryl D’Monte looks into the causes and effects of the deluge.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Holding a municipality accountable
Hasmukh Dhumadiya describes the ordeal of residents of Bakshipunch Society in Dwarka, Gujarat, and their efforts in overcoming it.
COAL HANDLING
Residents using rule of law to secure justice
Hasmukh Dhumadia narrates his experience of helping the local residents of a village in Gujarat in their fight for environmental justice.India Together offers an excellent forum for people from diverse fields of expertise to present their views, share their experiences and raise questions about where our country and society are headed in the future.
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ENERGY 
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
- Meet the solar sisters
- Lessons for rural electrification from a weaving village
- How badly designed and unsafe
- Trade rules and what they eclipse
- CRZ: Why coastal communities are troubled by these three letters
- The catch regarding Mumbai’s fishing villages
- The alleged sell-out that has left our fishermen fuming
- RTI and EIA collide at NIO
- Withering public consultations
- Rays of hope for the ‘local’ in Meghalaya
- Where are the real tweets in India?
- Where leopards await human compassion
- Shifting goalposts as summit winds down
- The Paris Climate Accord
- Will voluntary action to curb GHG emissions achieve anything?
- Looking beyond ‘Chindia’s’ common cause on climate
- Is the Hubli-Ankola Railway line approved?
- Where is the forest case headed?
- Euphemising forest diversion?
- Is “settling” forest rights in “campaign mode” a good idea?
- Graveyard of ships struggles to survive
- What Chernobyl and Fukushima remind us
- The poisons we play with everyday
- Not everyone wants a plastic-free future!
- Too many questions? Take away the right to ask!
- In Odisha, more tribal voices against mining
- The sand mining conundrum
- Why the Dongria Kondh rejected development in the Niyamgiri Hills
- Old or new, cars must make way for buses
- Will banning older vehicles clean the air in Delhi?
- Finding the right reasons for reform
- An uncertain future for our fauna
- Concrete riverfronts or ecological rejuvenation
- Financing urban development
- Waste pickers live, work with pride
- When cities go under
- Residents of a municipal dumping site fight back
- India’s sanitation puzzle: Missing the complete picture?
- What's in that compost you are using: burnt waste?
- Those brooms may not be enough to clean our waste!
- A guardian of rivers
- Creating National Water Commission
- The right to water for life
- Extraction exceeds recharge
- At one with nature while learning about wildlife
- Saving the Malabar Hornbill in the hills of Tamil Nadu
- Missing the woods and the trees
- The tiny creature that has made the Assam zoo famous!
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
- Moulding the young as change agents
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Panipat power plant pollutes with impunity
- Percolating young minds
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