The Best of the Blogs Awards: Have You Submitted Your Blog?
Region: GermanyWritten by Claire Ulrich Have you submitted your blog, social media group, or online initiative to the 2012 Best of the Blogs Awards [1] (The BoBs)? The BoBs are an annual blog award organized by German in... more
Views: 927Dam Projects Face Resistance in Georgia
Region: Georgia
Officials say hydroelectric schemes vital to economic development, but critics argue environmental and human costs are too high. By Natia Kuprashvil The Georgian authorities are promising that 1... more
Views: 1219China: Online Protest Against the Bear Bile Business
Region: ChinaBy Oiwan Lam Since early 2011, Gui Zhentang, China's largest bear bile medicine producer, has been trying to apply for stock market launch on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Last year, the application was ... more
Views: 1508Environment friendly industry to get priority in JK: Altaf
Region: IndiaJammu, February 14 (Scoop News) – The Minister for Forests and Environment Mian Altaf Ahmed today said that the government will not compromise on the environment for the developmental ac... more
Views: 987Panama: Indigenous Mining Protest Blocks Pan-American Highway
Region: Panama
Written by Ariel Moreno and Translated by Betsy Galbreath Todo lo acordado con los indígenas ha sido cumplido. Ahora elementos foráneos desean que no haya hidroeléctricas. Eso hará tripl... more
Views: 1297Going Green in 2012: 12 Steps for the Developing World
Region: District of Columbia
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or spiritual. But for... more
Views: 3476Indigenous People Occupy the Nortao Hydroelectric Power Plant in Protest
Region: BrazilTranslated from Portuguese More than 50 Indians of ethnicities Arara and Cinta Larga, armed with bows, arrows and burduna, are camped out, this morning, at the Hydroelectric Energy (UHE) Dardanelles, A... more
Views: 2200Preservation of forest is must for environment, Ecology: Altaf
Region: IndiaSrinagar, October 11 (Scoop News) - Minister for Forest and Environment Mian Altaf Ahmad today stressed the need for preservation of forest wealth which is must for environment and eco... more
Views: 953USA a melting pot of civilizations and home of submerged ideologies
Region: PakistanKohat August 20: USA is not only a melting pot of civilizations but pragmatism of its citizens has also submerged various ideologies to reap the benefits from conflicting ideas. FDR was elected for four consecutive terms ... more
Views: 2257Kashmir in environmental peril
Region: India
As the plane came to a halt at the Srinagar Airport one of the cabin crew denied us exit from the rear door. She said passengers had to go out through the front door as the Airport had an aerobridge. Surprised, I t... more
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