Category: Climate Change
Award for young women journalists
The Jayaraman family and the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) jointly announce the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for young women journalists for the year 2008. The Award had been set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away in January 2006. Anupama was not only […]
Rickshaw: Environment Comrade Vehicle’s Departure
“I am pulling rickshaw for seven years. My house is in Rampur district. My Father-Mother, Sister-Brother lives in the village. I send them two thousand taka every month. I pass my life in Dhaka with rest money” – Md. Deloar Hossain said this with hesitation. This twenty seven years old rickshaw puller has not married […]
Al Gore and IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for […]
Bangladeshi Grameen Shakti wins “Alternative Nobel Prize” to peace work and biodiversity
A jury named winners from Bangladesh, Canada, Kenya and Sri Lanka Tuesday as recipients of the 2007 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the Alternative Nobel Prize. Grameen Shakti, a company in Bangladesh, was cited for showing “that solar energy applications can be scaled up massively and rapidly to provide an affordable and climate-friendly energy option […]
In Flood-Prone Bangladesh, a Future That Floats
SINGRA, Bangladesh: With most of his school under floodwaters, 6-year-old Mohamed Achan pulled his oversize tomato-red shorts up around his tiny waist, placed a tarp over his head to guard against the rain, and sprinted barefoot to the edge of his muddy village. There, he waited for his classroom to arrive in a boat. The […]
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