Indigenous Communities in South India Lost Everything to Floods. Please Donate to Emergency Fund!
Click HERE to donate! In just three days, a storm system hovering over Chennai, India dumped one-fifth of the regions annual rainfall. News reports have focused attention on the...
Reports of Dangers of Industrial Meat Industry Should Concern India
In case you missed it, the World Health Organization recently released a controversial report concluding that consumption of processed and red meats leads is linked to increased rates of...
The Blurred Lines of Religious Difference: Hindus and Muslims Eat Beef
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a wave of anti-Muslim violence spread across India over the issue of eating beef. Muslims have been attacked and murdered by Hindu...
Sunita Narain: facing, not running from Delhi’s pollution
Air pollution in Delhi is bad, really bad. Based on measurements of ambient air pollution taken between 2008 and 2013, the World Health Organization reports that Delhi’s air contains...
Saying Goodbye to Nuclear Energy (and Bombs)
If we flew round the world from Hiroshima to Fukushima, we would pass over thousands of sites contaminated by radioactive material. Some are places we’ve all heard about, power...
Agricultural Minister Singh’s Comments Reveal a History of Neglect of Small Farmers
Social media is abuzz over Indian Agricultural Minister Radha Mohan Singh’s recent comments concerning farmer’s suicides. In a written statement to Parliament, Singh cited a report by the National...
Plastic Bags: a global environmental threat
We live in a disposable world. More and more of the things that we use to make life convenient are designed to be used only once. These things include...
Responding to Climate Change with Urban Farming
Cities around the world are growing, and their growth presents a problem for global climate change. On one hand, cities require huge amounts of gasoline and other carbon-based fuels...
Visible Work, Invisible Women – Online Gallery by P. Sainath
We’ve recently happened upon a remarkable photo exhibition by P. Sainath, the famous journalist of agrarian India. In the gallery, Sainath narrates a series of photos depicting the grueling...
What does it mean to say that agriculture is “male-dominated”?
On social media and other online forums excitement is brimming over female farmers. Women farmers are starting their own farms. They are organizing with other women to create communities...