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| Off the press |
Tectonics of Eastern
Continental Margins of India
by K S R Murthy,
A S Subrahmanyam, and
V Subrahmanyam
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 Among the highlights on our website this month is the gender theme.
In keeping with the third MDG of attaining gender equality and autonomy
of women by 2015, Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, reaffirms
our commitment to gender and sustainable development in Our vision.
We also bring you exciting stories of women pushing the boundaries
of tradition. Women pave the way for conservation shows how our capacity-building programme has enabled women in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh to manage energy and water resources in their villages. Gender and renewable energy explores the gendered impact of renewable energy in two of our community-based renewable energy initiatives – LaBL and Project Surya. A number of films portraying women and their role in sustainable development have also been featured. |
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 Another issue that has gained importance in recent times is the unrest in the
Middle East and its impact on India’s energy security. Energy Security Insight,
our quarterly newsletter, looks at the situation and proposes a Council on
Energy Security to work in tandem with the PM’s Council on Climate Change. |
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 Our researcher, Arpita Asha Khanna of the Resources, Regulation, and Global Security Division highlights The tri-sector approach that the mining sector can adopt in the Financial Express. Communities, mining companies, and government can cooperate to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts in the mining sector, she says. |
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 The importance of educating youth in sustainable development has been one of our major goals. As part of the Climate EduXchange programme implemented across 400 schools in the country, a workshop on the use of ICTs to preserve the ecology was recently held in Hyderabad. |
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 The message of energy conservation was also reinforced at the Sustainable Habitat team’s southern regional conference on Innovation in Green buildings: The GRIHA approach . This was a preparatory conference and will culminate in a national conference in January 2012. Addressing the meet, Dr R K Pachauri, our Director General, called for the Karnataka government to make green buildings mandatory. |
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 The December issue of TerraGreen, our monthly magazine, looks at The eye of the tiger. It analyses the debates on India’s tiger census which reported a marked increase in the numbers from 2008, and looks at government efforts to save the big cats. |
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The new era
in the power
sector,
heralded by
the
Electricity
Act 2003, has turned out to be too utopian to achieve, says our researcher Gurdeo Sinha in the latest issue of Electrical India. 
