Life goes to Mumbai, formerly Bombay, to investigate the city's extraordinary slum culture. There is poverty and suffering but Mumbai's slum dwellers are a vibrant and proud community. The city is also an important microcosm of how slums are developing around the world. We meet many characters. They have no electricity, an illegal supply of water and no toilet. Globally one in six people live in slums. At the current rate of
growth, that proportion's going to double by 2030 to one in every three. As well as traveling through Mumbai's slums, "Slum Futures" also looks at how the authorities will deal with such a massive influx.

Duration: 23 Minutes
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a. The Road from Rio: Includes commentary from leading players and thinkers representing a spectrum of views in the controversy over sustainable development.

b. The Trade Trap: Augustine Adongo explores the concept of globalization. Open markets, deregulation and good ‘governance’ with all the rules rigged in the rich world’s favour.

c. The Perfect Famine: Looks at ‘governance’ through one African example - and asks how the rich countries help the world’s poor - without rewarding unaccountable regimes, or creating charges of neo-colonial interference in their affairs.

Duration: 3x27 Minutes
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How people in different parts of the world are using renewable sources such as running water to generate electricity, animal waste to generate biogas, windmills and energy efficient light bulbs, to help reduce the destruction of the Earth’s atmosphere.




Duration: 28 Minutes
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The film shows an innovative aid project trying to relieve pressure on grazing lands by introducing a new fuel efficient stove that uses less wood and gives respite to the forest degradation.





Duration: 8 Minutes
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Set in the fictional future of the year 2048,
this two -films series (along with The Ozone
Alarm), focuses on the damage human activity
and man made chemicals inflict on the
environment and, looks at what the world
may be like if ozone depletion and global warming continue unchecked.

Duration: 46 Minutes
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A D 2048 : The Ozone Alarm Set in the fictional future of the year 2048, this film is a part of a two-part series with The Greenhouse Effect, the film focuses on news bulletins in 2048 which shows an appalling litany of disaster stories: epidemics of 'supertyphus' spread
by rats, plagues of grasshoppers devouring food crops and famine relief camps in Europe.

Duration: 49 Minutes
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There has always been cholera in the Bengali wetlands of Bangladesh. In 1993 floods brought cholera 0139, a robust new mutation. Nicknamed ‘Bengal’, it has now begun to spread beyond Bangladesh. As classical cholera has already circulated the world seven times since it was first identified, no one doubts that the new dominant cholera 0139 has now just begun its own fateful journey.

Duration: 24 Minutes
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This manual is a comprehensive documentation of localised community-level approaches in urban wastewater management. Besides providing an overview of eco-sanitation and decentralised wastewater treatment technologies, it also captures the emerging trends in this sector.

Authors :R.K Srinivasan, Suresh Babu S.V
Pages : 35
ISBN :
Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
E-Book Availability: No
Language: English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu Learn More

Did the world emerge from the Kyoto summit
with an agreement that will mark the start of
an effective response to climate change
caused by the build-up of greehouse gases ?
Or was it merely a political fudge designed to
appease the US Senate ? We get their verdict
from leading scientists, politicians and environmental lobbyists.

Duration: 27 Minutes
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