JAIPUR: The Ranthambore National Park, of late, is in news for all the wrong reasons. The man-animal conflict is gathering pace with either the tiger moving out of the reserve or man entering prohibited area. In fact, after recent incidents of tiger attacks on villagers or their cattle, people living near the reserve have visibly turned aggressive against wild animals. The same villagers were once considered as a shield to animals against possible threat from poachers.

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Six years ago, David Basson got a phone call that most manufacturers can only dream about -- one from Walmart.

Basson, the CEO of Seattle-based Greensource Organic Clothing Company, had recently shipped an order of 200,000 yoga tops to Sam's Club, Walmart's warehouse club unit. At first, the Sam's Club buyer didn't see any particular reason why the organic tops would sell much better than the regular kind; she just felt that organic was a good place to be fr...

High-performance businesses all around the world are responding to the need to reduce carbon emissions in everything they do. The IT department has a crucial role to play in meeting these goals. Here’s a list of Top 5 green IT Companies in Bangalore.

The mood of the moment is green; it’s all about going green this Independence Day. Top IT Companies are leading the way forward with their green policies and this green re-branding trend is fast catching u...

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Since the government launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), with its goal of “establish[ing] India as a global leader in solar energy,” many people have asked me whether this mission will be able to meet its ambitious goals. My answer: The success of the mission depends on three factors. One, the fast-evolving world of solar technologies, two, the global competitive landscape, and, three, our ability to craft a strategy that takes into account the above t...

It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses, and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use, which adds up to a significant amount of carbon dioxide and other gasses into the atmosphere. And our use of digital media as a way of socializing and communicating is no small piece of that pie, as Facebook's electricity bill has prov...

An under-reported announcement in Alistair Darling's pre-election Budget was a hefty £2bn commitment to green technology.

It is a sector in which investors have shown a growing interest for some time and now seems to be central to any sort of government-sponsored industrial revival.

It is also a sector that has a key role to play in delivering on policy pledges, since governments around the world have agreed to cut carbon emissions...

What’s the true price of a carbon permit? That’s a trick question, according to data from a United Kingdom nonprofit called Sandbag. Carbon permits are supposed to be allowances to emit greenhouse gases that companies purchase — at a loss to their bottom line. But since the recession began, some of the biggest emitters have actually been profiting from Europe’s cap and trade scheme.

The European Union’s auctioning system is the source of...

Several years ago I invited John "Plasma Boy" Wayland onto my Sirius Satellite Radio show "The Lazy Environmentalist" to talk about eco-friendly cars. I had heard that he was having tremendous success drag racing an electric car called the White Zombie. John is quite animated and soon he was talking enthusiastically about blowing the doors off of gasoline-powered corvettes and mustangs in nothing but a modified 1972 Datsun running on battery-operated electric power. He des...

Every year the winters are shrinking and a few days of cold weather leaves us fresh and pleasant to face the scorching heat of the sun. This has left everyone in every possible field worried because this global warming will affect our life styles. The earth's climate is vibrant and always changing through a natural cycle. What the world is more concerned about is that the changes that are happening today have caught fire because of our very own deeds. These transformations are being studied b...

It is becoming increasingly common for companies to measure and report the water they consume within their four walls. Yet they rarely track all the water used to make the electricity powering their operations.

It's called the forgotten water footprint and it's about to get a lot more attention. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is working on a new module for energy to be added to the Global Water Tool, the groundbreaking resource introduced in 200...

On a Pacific beach in Costa Rica, a researcher whispers the number after counting the slimy, round white eggs just laid by a rare leatherback turtle in a hole dug in the sand under bright moonlight.

Turtles like this 1.5 meter (5 ft) female have probably been struggling out of the surf at night since before the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. The region is the main nesting site in the east Pacific for the critically endangered species.

I’m still reeling from the rather anticlimactic finish to the recent Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen. Like so many others, I was hoping for an internationally binding deal that would, at the very least, compel and motivate the nations of the world to address the climate crisis in a meaningful and precedent setting way.

But it was not to be. The immediate reasons for the conference’s failure are complex and laden with the political and economic r...

First, the internet. Then smartphones. Now it looks like Google wants its piece of the energy pie as well. The company created a "Google Energy" subsidiary last month. It's also applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be allowed to buy and sell power, like utilities. What exactly does the internet search leader want with energy? To be that much closer to taking over the world? Possibly. But it's more likely that the company just wants to enhance and protect its profit...

To fully appreciate what a step backwards the final Copenhagen accord is, one has to recall the buildup to it. For the last two years, global warming activists and UN officials had circled December 2009 on their calendars as the watershed moment for creating a new carbon-constrained global economy for decades to come. And in the nick of time, they would argue, as the existing targets in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol are scheduled to expire in 2012. Furthermore, with the Bush administration gone in ...

India’s new policy on biofuels targets blending at least 20 percent biofuels in diesel and petrol by 2017. This implies that 13.38 million tons of biodiesel will be required (which would need 30x increase on plantation of non-edible oilseeds).

The government announced, on 23rd Dec, 2009, attractive incentives to encourage biofuels plantation in wastelands and to utilise indigenous bio-mass feed stocks for production of bio-fuels. It addresses the issues across the...

Publications around the world have referred to the Copenhagen Climate Conference as the "last chance to save the planet." But with the event drawing to a close, delegates had yet to produce an agreement on how to effectively curb greenhouse gas emissions and much of the conference's media coverage focused a string of minor mishaps, flubs and controversies. Here are seven of the most notable:

As you read this, a deal is possibly being signed at Copenhagen to save the world from climate change. But be very clear. The agreement which the world has waited for is not going to be either an effective deal or a fair deal to reduce emissions in the world. The reason is clear: The industrialised world needs to cut emissions drastically, and this is not easy or cheap. So, it is looking for easy answers and, most of all, in Copenhagen it is looking for ways to blame the failure of the confer...

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The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen offers the prospect of a robust political deal, endorsed by the world's leaders and witnessed by the world's people, that sets out clear targets and a timeline for translating it into law. To be a truly historic achievement, such a deal must do two things.

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In the midst of resolving conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama briefly mentioned another war in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: the war on climate change. He said.

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MOSCOW - The rest of the world’s passions may be boiling over in Copenhagen this week, but Russia is paying no attention.

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India needs to grow at 8-10 per cent for the next two decades if the country is to eliminate poverty. This will require our energy consumption to grow four- to five-fold.

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Barack Obama has gone from zero to hero among climate campaigners in a few short weeks – and has done so against the advice of his closest advisors. Less than a month ago he was not going to go to the Copenhagen summit and send Hillary Clinton instead, confining himself to speaking about climate change when receiving his Nobel prize.  Top advisors told him that the issue was just too much trouble and Gordon Brown personally had to persuade him not to announce his non-attendance t...

Scientists have argued before that controlling the earth’s burgeoning population would be one of the most effective ways to slow global warming, since keeping millions of little consumers from being born would reduce the amount of fossil fuel that would have to be burned to keep them warm and fed and happy. Now, an advocacy group that focuses on overpopulation is taking the argument the next step, suggesting that people or companies looking to offset their carbon dioxide emissions shoul...

In Copenhagen, a major binding agreement at the global warming summit is not to be. Not this year. In Washington, the Senate is so divided that it became clear months ago that climate legislation will be pushed off until 2010 at the earliest.

Still, the United States can meet the challenge of a world demanding that it take the lead on global warming. Here’s how: 

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Just one day after the White House announced that President Barack Obama would attend the U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen and pledge to cut carbon emissions, the Chinese government issued a similar decision: that Premier Wen Jiabao would arrive at the upcoming U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen with a target on carbon emissions reductions in hand. After months of wary negotiation, it seemed that the two biggest carbon emitters in the world had finally decided to get serious abo...

Organic farming can play an important role in countering climate change, a new report suggests today.

Use of organic methods means that the soil takes up much more carbon, which would otherwise be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide to boost global warming, according to the report from the Soil Association, the organic food and farming charity.

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Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Their leaders will probably promise us teaspoons with which to put out the firestorm and insist that springing for fire hoses would be far too onerous a burden for business to bear. They have already backed...

While investment capital seeks to exploit stimulus package programs for renewable energy projects, investors may want to consider the greenest form of energy out there—the megawatt no one uses, what's known as a white credit.

“It’s much cheaper to save a unit of energy than to produce a unit of energy cheaply,” says Jeremy Panacheril, US director of global accounting and advisory firm KPMG's cleantech group.
 

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STABILISING greenhouse gases to limit global warming to 2C or slightly more requires global carbon dioxide emissions to peak within six years, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What would they know?

After all, the IPCC is informed only by 4000 or so internationally recognised scientific experts and they are part of a monstrous conspiracy to impose world government. But for those of us who have trouble believing that or even just...

Insured losses from windstorms and floods in Britain and typhoons in China could rise significantly if global warming predictions turn out to be correct, according to a study released last week by the Assn. of British Insurers.

The study, “The Financial Risks of Climate Change,” also projects that property coverage throughout the world will become more expensive and difficult to obtain if predictions of rising temperatures are correct.

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The global economy is still is bad shape, people are worried about their jobs and just paying the bills is a major challenge, hardly the right environment to get people focusing on climate change.

With so much to worry about, it can be hard to understand all the fuss about reaching a tougher U.N. climate deal in December in the Danish capital Copenhagen.

Following are some questions and answers on the importance of crafting a new agreement from 20...

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Too many corporate leaders are waiting for a silver bullet to drive sustainability changes in their companies -- and are missing out on a prime opportunity to seize a competitive advantage.

Rather than focusing on simple changes that can be made now, says Matt Kistler, Walmart's senior vice president of sustainability, companies are “dabbling” and waiting for “the thing” that will drive transformational change.

“Shooting big and goin...

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Just about everyone in the Midwest should be concerned about the safety and cost of capturing carbon-dioxide emissions at coal-fueled power plants and stashing the carbon deep underground.
 

And just about everyone should realize there is only one way to head off the serious environmental and energy problems that this largely untested process could cause - an aggressive combination of energy-efficiency improvements and a major increase in the use of nuclear power. Together...

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What’s more worrying than global warming? For many, it’s the absence of a legitimate law to deal with corrupt emission practices.

When scientists established a relationship between greenhouse gases and global warming, more than 180 countries responded by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, which caps emissions in industrialised countries at 5% below their 1990 levels.

Kyoto has several market mechanisms intended to ensure that the required c...

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While channel surfing a few months ago, I came across a Law & Order episode, in which the murder victim had been running a carbon credit scam… seriously. It’s no wonder that when people ask me what I do, I never tell them that I work for a “carbon credit” company or an “offset provider”. I awkwardly explain around these words like a game of $100,000 Pyramid, but ...

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Nuclear power is one technology that must be accelerated, promoted and relied upon if the world is to stabilise carbon dioxide emissions at an acceptable level. Doing so would put hundreds of billions into the industry.

The message comes from the International Energy Agency's (IEA's) annual World Energy Outlook a...

Going green starts from the top, and in the Capital the President’s Estate is taking the lead. Besides lighting an entire auditorium wing with solar power, the Rashtrapati Bhavan is using cow dung-fuelled biogas in its kitchen for the President’s Bodyguards.

With 54 cows and 80 horses at the President’s Estate, biogas was an idea whose time had come — and since April, the President’s Bodyguards are eating fo...

Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea,according to new research.

While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great ...