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Nuclear must not be blindly advocated as the solution to the energy crisis
I sneaked out of the office to a massive party on the beach yesterday, filled with extremely attractive, half-naked Bollywood stars cavorting in a riot of Bacchanalian abandon.
That's a lie. I went to a lecture on Nuclear Energy and the Environment. Plus ça change, etc.
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Video footage of the Periyar River
Now Back to Bangalore Broadband, I can upload some footage of the polluted Periyar River. From the opposite bank, Riverkeeper V. J. Jose points out the back of a few of the 247 factories that line the banks of this part of the Periyar, dumping 170m litres of waste effluent into its waters every day.
The yellow-stained earth that can be seen on the ( Read more... ) -
"It will take much more than threats of climate change to spur this mighty elephant into action"
The following is by Akhila Vijayaraghavan, a friend of mine who works as a campaigner on sustainable agriculture at Greenpeace. She returned to India in March of this year having spent six years studying in Glasgow, and still retains much of the excellent accent. With this perspective, I asked her to write something on her impressions of the ( Read more... )
