Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 DHAKA, Bangladesh — At the factories of DBL Group, one of the largest Bangladeshi textile and garment makers, tons of fluffy imported cotton are […]
Category Archives: Environment
No Heights Too Steep
Ms. Magazine February 2013 The First Woman to Climb Everest is Now an Activist DURING HER ASCENT OF Mount Everest in 1975, Junko Tabei narrowly avoided disaster. The Japanese mountaineer was buried in an […]
Market for Bear Bile Threatens Asian Population
New York Times.com January 28, 2013 The six bears that arrived this month at Animals Asia, an animal rescue center in China, had the grisly symptoms of inhumane bile milking. Greenish bile […]
Jeeping Up on India’s Wild Lions
Wall Street Journal January 4, 2013 A fast and fairly furry safari that’s far from Africa—and in Gir Forest National Park, home to remaining members of the majestic, tassel-tailed Asiatic […]
Hydrogen Fuels Autorickshaws and Dreams of Cleaner Air
International Herald Tribune October 2, 2012 NEW DELHI — Across India, small three-wheeled autorickshaws ferry people and goods from place to place, with tens of thousands in Delhi alone buzzing […]
Microhydro Drives Change in Rural Nepal
International Herald Tribune June 20, 2012 BAGLUNG, NEPAL — In Rangkhani, a remote mountain village in western Nepal, a 12- hour walk on steep dirt roads from Baglung, the district’s […]
Biogas Offers Poor Countries a Cleaner, Safer Fuel
International Herald Tribune October 27, 2011 NEPALGANJ, NEPAL — Here’s an unlikely starting point for clean energy: No toilets, and plenty of dung. In developing countries where domestic animals are […]
Soil Renewal Puts Pakistan’s Poor on Stronger Ground
International Herald Tribune November 16, 2011 LAHORE, PAKISTAN — In the Pakistani village of Sharbaga, about 130 kilometers from Lahore, a 70-year-old farmer named Mohammed Ali and his wife plant […]
Lidartector
The Economist May 26, 2011 IN AN isolated forest in the Sivalik hills of south-western Nepal, intense sun beats down through the treetops. A sweaty trek up a steep, rocky […]
Working in the Himalayas to Prevent Disastrous Flooding
International Herald Tribune November 27, 2011 NEW DELHI — With its massive chalk-white face of ice and snow, Thorthormi glacier in northern Bhutan looms high against a bright blue sky, […]
