environmental issues and greenwashing

What is the power of a blog? What changes can a blog bring? Do bloggers love their country? What price are they willing to pay for that love? Are they brave enough? I am frustrated. I am frustrated because at this moment I am not being able to do anything but to write. Will writing solve this great problem of ours? Will writing solve any problem of ours? After the project of Farakka Dam , India is starting another similar project which is equally (if not more) dangerous for the ecology and Bangladesh. India has taken Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Project in hand. It involves ... Read Full Story

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/06/17/news0277.htm Tipaimukh dam: Farm output to fall, spelling disaster for Sylhet region bdnews24.com, Dhaka Farm output will fall and poverty will rise, spelling ‘disaster’ for the Sylhet region if India’s proposed Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage are built, maintain experts. “The dam will cause water flow to slow down while the barrage will ensure their full control of water [...] Read Full Story

http://www.newagebd.com/2009/jun/04/nat.html#2 Tipaimukh dam to destroy ecology: experts Staff Correspondent Commissioning of the planned Tipaimukh dam by India will escalate socio-economic and political tension in India’s north-eastern states and also Bangladesh, and imperil the ecology of the region, green campaigners said. After sounding this note of caution, a leading environmentalist on Wednesday demanded that New Delhi must make public all the documents on the Tipaimukh hydro-electric project and Dhaka should raise its voice against such an ecologically destructive project in the country’s interest. ‘We will definitely protest against it in collaboration with the rights groups in India. If the construction of this dam is allowed, ... Read Full Story

Definitively Uncertain. Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report, Potential Impacts of Climate Change in the United States , and adopted a analytical methodology that will likely satisfy few. At times it's reminiscent of Ron Suskind's description of Vice President Dick Cheney's "one percent doctrine" that asserted that if "a one percent chance" that a threat is real exists "we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. . . It's not about our analysis, or finding a preponderance of evidence." The CBO report finds it way through troubled waters of climate change using this risk management theory, ... Read Full Story

Intelligent debate is crucial to the development of biofuels. It is right and proper that people with ideas put them forward and that those idea are rigorously challenged, by people who think it is wrong or bad. Sadly, however, some students at Brown University and their half witted friends at Greenwash Guerillas, don’t think this is the right way to go about things. It would seem that silencing critics is easier as New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman was pied by the Greenwash Guerillas while giving an Earth Day Lecture at Brown University. (see the video at the end of this piece.) ... Read Full Story