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CSE Media Alert: Celebrating International Day for Biodiversity. Gastronomically

Food is personal. We know that. What we often don’t realise is that food is also more than personal. It is also about culture and, most importantly, about biodiversity… 

Says Sunita Narain in her preface to First Food, our most recent publication, a unique and lively celebration of food, recipes, traditions and biodiversity. We bring you a web preview of the book today, to mark the International Day for Biodiversity, and a package of articles, opinions and stories.

Get a taste of it all on www.cseindia.org/node/4978

International Day for Biological Diversity

May 22

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The main objectives under these programmes are to achieve

• improved capacities and understanding about issues sustainable urban water management and sustainable buildings among municipal functionaries/city administrators and reforms,

• increased knowledge about best practices on water/energy efficiency including water/energy conservation, rainwater harvesting and treatment and reuse of wastewater, planning and design with water – city/building scale and related reforms,

• develop capacity to plan, design and implement projects

EIA Training Programme 22-26 April, 2013

List of participants

Call for GREEN RATING NETWORK Personnel

for Green Rating of Thermal Power Plants

GREEN RATING NETWORK is a countrywide network of volunteers of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi (CSE) which undertakes surveys and data collection on industries.

The volunteers are authorized representatives of CSE to do a short survey of the industries assigned to them and collect the required information. Being an important part of CSE’s Green Rating Project (GRP), their contribution helps to provide crucial plant level information.

'Developing countries are treated in a very unfair manner'

Bernarditas Muller, a seasoned member of the Philippines negotiating team, is among the rare few who call a spade a spade. Speaking to Indrajit Bose during the ongoing climate talks at Bonn, she outlined the importance of the UN Framework Convention and provided insight into how the developed world represents the epitome of inaction and how some developing countries are still so naïve. Edited excerpts