by Manshi Asher Sunderlal Bahuguna may have departed, but there are many formidable repositories of diverse oral and embodied knowledge that we could fall back on In the era of irreversible ecological destruction, initiatives to ‘save the environment’ mushroom every day. It is, after all, also the age of ‘solutions’. ‘Green’ is now a pre-fix […]
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Business Standard: Forests are disappearing in Himachal Pradesh! (April 22 is Earth Day)
Shimla, April 22 (IANS) Green activists have long protested the hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been gobbling up forests and drying up water channels. Now a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) too backs the claims of the greens. Compensatory afforestation was highly deficient, as 58 percent of the 12 surveyed […]