The Roadshow goes to Kakadu National Park, where the rock band Midnight Oil is leading the protest against uranium mining; in the Northern territories the controversial crocodile farms which meet a demand for 50,000 hides a year may be the only way to save wild populations; Eastern Australia’s Macquarie Marshes are drying up as thirsty cotton crops take more than their fair share from the water basin; and in Australia’s coastal waters, the efforts to save the Bluefin Tuna and the search for elusive sea-dragons. The Hands On slot, from South Africa, covers the invention of the Safety Cap - a childproof top for paraffin bottles.


Duration: 26 Minutes
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This film documents the plight of mining affected people in South Africa. Gujarat, India where communities have found new ways to catch rainfall. Water scarcity has forced farmers to innovate.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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“All substances are poisons; the right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.” Modern food regulation is about determining what is that right dose in our daily diet.

How is food safety defined? What are the global systems that regulate food safety? What does ‘Acceptable Daily Intake’ (ADI) mean? Why do we have to accept pesticides in our food?

If you are also troubled with questions like these and some more, you are not alone. It concerns the health and well being of every family, and that's why we did a detailed in depth research and came out with this revealing new book, which will give you all the answers. Order it today.

Authors : Sunita Narain, Chandra Bhushan, Savvy Soumya Misra
Pages: 132
ISBN : 978-81-86906-58-3 Learn More

Papua New Guinea is having to fight off multinational predators keen to cash in on its rich tropical forests and mineral resources. ‘Hell in the Pacific’ investigates three separate conflicts between local Papuan landowners and subsidiaries of the mining conglomerate, Rio Tinto Zinc. And now, overriding local objections, extractors have moved in, unannounced, to develop a new island gold mine using cyanide.

Duration: 55 Minutes
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Our latest Hindi publication is a crisp compilation of some of the select editorials of Ms Sunita Narain that were published by some of the leading Hindi dailies of the country. The book covers a wide spectrum of environmental issues such as: Air Pollution and Public Transport, Village Republic, Industry and Mining, Wildlife and Forests, Water and Climate Change.

Author - Sunita Narain (CSE)
Pages: 156
ISBN: 978-81-86906-54-5 Learn More

This book is an attempt to document all the complexities of mining. While, it is true that mining is essential, it is not a simple 'dig and sell' proposition for a country like India. Its challenges are immense. The book gives an overview of these challenges - protection and preservation of environment and inclusive development of all sections of society - and where does the Indian Mineral Industry stand today.

Authors : Chandra Bhushan, Monali Zeya Hazra, Souparno Banerjee
Pages : 360
ISBN :
Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
E-Book Availability: No
Language: English
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As conflicts between elephants and humans increase over ever scarcer land, an elephant orphanage in the rural North provides much needed sanctuary. In the forests ancient Veddhic tribes claim their ancestral rights and we see their fight to resist removal from the newly created National Park. Meanwhile, on the coast Sri Lanka’s reefs are taking a battering and if the mining continues there could be none left by the year 2000.


Duration: 26 Minutes
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'Hands On' - the regular Earth Report programme that gives tips on green enterprise - tours the world in search of innovation. This programme starts in a
laboratory in Belgium where we find that bees arethe latest recruits in the battle against pollution. In Sweden, more animal magic - the sniffer dogs trained to detect mercury. In Bangladesh, sari cloth is being used as a cheap and simple filter to help prevent the spread of cholera. In China, coalbed methane is a peril for miners. It has to be vented safely into the atmosphere. But methane is a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. Through a new method being tried out in the mining town of Yangquan it's being used to meet household energy needs for 20,000 people.

Duration: 24 Minutes
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