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In Hindi, "chipko" literally means "to cling", and the movement got this name since the people trying to save the trees started hugging and Loving onto trees when lumbermen tried to fall those. One of Sunderlal Bahuguna's notable contributions to the Chipko movement, and to environmentalism in general, was his creation of the Chipko's slogan ...
Down To Earth Books is the magazine's publishing wing. It publishes two annuals: State of India's Environment and State of India's Environment In Figures, the country's only annual survey on the environment. The latter is a completely data-driven annual statement on the state of India's environment published every World Environment Day. [3]
[10] [11] He was editor of the bi-monthly Gandhi Marg, published by the Gandhi Peace Foundation. [12] Mishra was a true Gandhian in philosophy and practice. Known to be warm and engaging in his demeanor and maintaining his principles throughout his life, he was a role model to many. He died on 20 December 2016 after a 10-month battle with ...
The Chipko movement (Hindi: चिपको आन्दोलन, lit. 'hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the government's policies on deforestation, protesters in the 1970s engaged in tree hugging, wrapping their arms around trees so that they could not be felled. [1]
Earth's layered structure: (1) inner core; (2) outer core; (3) lower mantle; (4) upper mantle; (5) lithosphere; (6) crust. Earth science generally recognizes four spheres, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere [3] as correspondent to rocks, water, air and life respectively.
Research in environmental economics has uncovered a relationship between environmental quality, measured by ambient concentrations of air pollutants and per capita income. This so-called environmental Kuznets curve shows environmental quality worsening up until about $5,000 of per capita income on purchasing parity basis, and improving ...
Bhagat Puran Singh on a 2004 stamp of India. Bhagat Puran Singh (4 June 1904 – 5 August 1992) was an Indian writer, environmentalist, and philanthropist.As a young man he decided to dedicate his life to humanitarian work, and in 1947, he established Pingalwara, a home for the sick and disabled in Amritsar.
State of Environment Report India - 2009 (PDF). Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change : Government of India. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 August 2009; Urpelainen, Johannes. Energy and Environment in India: The Politics of a Chronic Crisis (Columbia University Press, 2023) online book review