Nine days of Delhi dharna: a recap
The Hindu Net Desk When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal left Raj Niwas — the official residence of Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal — to his home on June 20, it made headlines in the media. While a chief minister visiting an L-G's office is not new, a chief minister and his cabinet colleagues occupying the visitor's lounge of Raj Niwas for nine days is something unheard of.On June 11, Mr. Kejriwal convened a press conference and accused the Delhi bureaucrats of skipping meetings called by him and hisShaping a better future together
As communication technology develops, people have access to more information than ever before, literally at their fingertips.Read all the stories from Impact Journalism Day 2017But how many of us can say that we are truly well informed?Headlines tend to paint a bleak picture of our world: conflict, terrorism, hunger, climate change, social injustice — the list goes on. We are indeed facing complex and seemingly insurmountable challenges. Yet the full picture also offers solutions and reasons forLangouët, the 100% green little Gallic village
Mathilde Golla “Small is beautiful” would be an ideal slogan for the village of Langouët in Brittany, northern France. This community of 600 inhabitants, located near Rennes, is well on the way to energy autonomy and is aiming for food self-sufficiency, too. Over the past 20 years, Langouët has been developing a whole host of green projects, designed to meet these objectives: since 2004, a canteen that serves 100% organic and local produce; passive social housing (no active heating used, or very little); aTale Me: clothes for a circular economy
Ludivine Ponciau The textile industry generates 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, more than those of all international flights and maritime shipping combined, according to a damning report issued in 2017 by Britain’s Ellen MacArthur Foundation. At the same time, large clothing retailers are being accused of destroying thousands of tonnes of new unsold clothing to ease the pressure on storage facilities.It’s been five years since the fast-fashion scandal triggered by the Rana Plaza