Archive for the 'Green Tips' Category

THE GENIE IN THE TEST TUBE

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

(This article was written in 2002. A lot of facts may have changed since then)
The worst nightmares of genetic-engineering opponents in India seem to be coming true.
 Asia’s burgeoning food market, and declining consumer and farmer confidence in genetically engineered products in Europe, Japan and the United States has made Asia the key target of the […]

THE ART OF BUILDING A ‘BHONGA”

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

In April 2000 a group of architects designers & photographers from Israel, came to the village of Tunda Vand in Mundra Taluka, Kutch, Gujarat, to participate in a project of building a “bhonga” - the famous mud hut of the Kutch desert.
The idea was to learn the special technology & to renew the bhonga building […]

Happy Earth Day

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Spring is the renewal of life. The first Earth Day, proclaimed by the City of San Francisco and celebrated on March 21, 1970 was created by John McConnell.
What led him to the idea was his interest in Space exploration and awareness of the March Equinox, nature’s primary day of global equilibrium.
In 1971 UN Secretary General […]


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