11:56 am in Business & Politics, Culture & Celebrity, india, WED2011 by TreeHugger
Photo credit: Ximena Prugue
This guest post is by Ximena Prugue, winner of the 2011 UNEP/TreeHugger World Environment Day blogging contest.
After so much anticipation and celebration,
World Environment Day 2011 in India had finally arrived. Along with the events registered around the world, I was celebrating at the
TCS World 10K Marathon in Bangalore, India (Yes, we know that 10K is not a marathon but nobody was really politi...
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8:05 am in Business & Politics, Culture & Celebrity, green consumerism, green jobs, WED2011 by TreeHugger
photo: Clean Energy Resource Teams/Creative Commons
On a number of occasions previously and at a couple times yesterday during
World Environment Day 2011 activities in Delhi there's been a notion expressed, explicitly by environment minister
Jairam Ramesh and implicitly by o...
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7:35 am in Business & Politics, deforestation, economics, Travel & Nature, united nations, WED2011 by TreeHugger
photo: Neil Palmer/International Center for Tropical Agriculture/Creative Commons
Culminating
World Environment Day itself, backing up this year's theme of Forests: Nature At Your Service,
UNEP has highlighted the social, ecological and economic value of forests--as well as the massive benefits of reducing deforestation. All told investing just...
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10:32 am in events, india, WED2011 by TreeHugger
All Photos: Ximena Prugue
This guest post is by Ximena Prugue, winner of the 2011 UNEP/TreeHugger World Environment Day blogging contest.
My first day in India for
World Environment Day felt like my first day in high school--minus the braces and far less acne. Today felt something like an orientation about deforestation specifically in India and what's being done to stop it, or at least what
should be done. The UN General Assembly declared 2...
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9:05 am in Business & Politics, ecological footprint, energy, india, renewable energy, WED2011 by TreeHugger
Photo: Mat McDermott
India's environment minister
Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students at one of the opening events of
World Environment Day 2011) has a lot to be praised for. So much so that we awarded him a
Best of Green award last year, mostly for his statements and...
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8:05 am in events, india, united nations, WED2011 by TreeHugger
All photos: Mat McDermott/Creative Commons
TreeHugger is on the ground in India, traveling with
UNEP and the winner of our joint blogging contest
Ximena Prugue for the next couple of days, attending
World Environment Day 2011 activities in Delhi and Bangalore. Here's a tas...
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Image: Ximena Prugue
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