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Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) - a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 122 countries [.pdf, Excel, PowerPoint]

The Ecomark Scheme of India (E-book format) Ecomark.zip

India's Ecomark india.pdf

Facts for Consumers - Sorting Out "Green" Advertising Claims sortgrn.pdf

Flyer from The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods flyer.pdf

Are you eating Genetically Engineered Foods? consumerwarning.pdf

GE-Fact Sheet & Guidelines for Grassroots Action gefacts.pdf

FTC Facts for Consumers - Heating and Cooling your Home heatcl.pdf

FTC Consumer Alert - Buying a Washing Machine? washmachalrt.pdf

Toxic Chemical in Vinyl Medical Products May Harm Sick Infants hcwh.00.07.13.pdf

Appropriate Building Technology in India Downloadble E-brochures

 

Agenda 21 - India

GREEN India 2047 from TERI

Greening the Budget 2001/02: Opportunities in the Energy Sector

STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT REPORT - 1999

It Does Pay to Fight - Environmental Success Stories

Protecting ecology: promoting peace on Indo-Pakistan border

'The GreenScene' - A one minute syndicated environmental consumer report for radio

IndianNGOs.com - A resource centre for Indian NGOs

 

ECOLABELLING AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS

GOI Scheme on Labelling of Environment Friendly Products (Resolution)

The Green Rating Project - Rating Indian industry

The colour of money (Down to Earth cover story, April '98)

Green claims: Environmental claims on products and packaging in the shops: An international study

Green labels: Consumer interests and transatlantic trade tensions in eco-labelling

Green Claims Leaflet - A guide to the international ‘green claims’ code

Green Testing: Recyclability, repairability and upgradability: A practical handbook for consumer organisations

Labels for a Green Planet

Environmental Labelling Guidelines

A Confusion of Claims

A Few Sticking Points with Eco-labels

Verifying Environmental Product Claims

Testing Time for Greenness

Sustainable Business - Includes Green Dream Jobs & terrific resources for businesses

The Green Business Resource Center

Greening of business

Corporations are becoming green

Environmental Software Guide from Edie

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION

A consumer guide to sustainable consumption

Green Consumer Guides

Sustainable Development for the Common Man

Signs of a sustainable society

Eco-friendly growth

The Middle Path

Consumers and the Environment: Meeting Needs, Changing Lifestyles

Green Guidance. How consumer organisations can give better advice on putting sustainable consumption into practice: An international study

Green products for whom?

Questionnaire for Governments: Changing Consumption Patterns

Tackling Excess with Renewed Energy: Searching for Solutions

New report highlights imbalance of consumption among nations

Creating Artificial Needs: How Advertising Drives Consumption

Advertising and Consumption: The Unholy Nexus

Boom Time for Advertisers in India

A Guide to Green Government

The Sustainability Revolution: A Greenprint for the Future

Green budgeting: essential for sustainable economic growth

Equity Watch - a climate change newsletter from the Southern perspective

Ranking of the World's Countries by 1997 Carbon Dioxide Per Capita Emission Rates

India's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions

Energy Consumption Data for households in India

Department of Energy Conservation, Ministry of Power - India

TERI's Energy-Environment Database Directory Online

RAISE - Best Development Practices

Repairing fraying ecosystems: New solutions for sustainable growth

TAKING ACTION

The Right To Know

How to Be a Green Consumer

Mothers and Others Green Guide

Consumer Action for People and the Environment

Greener Living - Practical tips for everyday life

Are you doing your bit?

Spreading sound environmental practices

Campaign on Ecofrig - Protest against Indian refrigerator manufacturers

Ecofrig: Make the Right Choice Now!

Tips on Paper for Young Consumers

Sorting Out Garbage at Its Source

Putting a Lid on Wastefulness: Drowning in Garbage and How to Keep Afloat

Quenching the Planet's Thirst: Securing Clean and Plentiful Water Resources

Water harvesting: urgent need to reap rich rewards

New soap keeps you and environment clean

Incentives for environmentally friendly dry cleaning

Natural gas buses are the path towards sustainability

Cooking with Sunshine

Solar energy can improve life of rural poor

Power of aluminum as renewable clean energy source

Natural Medicinal Recipe for Head Louse Removal

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide

Earth's 911: Information on recycling centers, how to recycle, prevent pollution

A house for all seasons

Affordable by Design: Building an Eco-House on a Tight Budget

Are green buildings worth more than conventional ones?

The LEED Green Building Rating System - a priority program of the US Green Building Council

Consumer Guide to Genetic Engineering

India's impassioned debate over genetically modified seeds

Introduction to Genetically Engineered Foods

View the Genetic engineering online tutorial

GMO'S: Is this the future you want?

Jeopardizing the Future?

Do we need transgenics?

Weird Science: The Brave New World of Genetic Engineering (pdf)

Strange New World: GMOs Pose Risks to the Environment and Human Health

The Environmental Risks of Transgenic Crops: an Agroecological Assessment

Can Genetic Engineering Feed The World?

Food security: can designer crops meet new challenges?

Ten reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security

GE Food - Safety Problems

Food Fight: The Truth About GMOs

You are what you eat...but how do you know what that is?

Consumer Reports: Genetically Engineered Foods in Your Shopping Cart

Mothers & Others Consumer Action Kit on Food, Farms, and Genetic Engineering

The Greenpeace True Food Shopping List

Transgenic products on the market

List of agricultural biotech products currently on the market

1999 acreage data on biotechnology crops

10 Reasons Organic Gardening Opposes Genetic Engineering

Genetically modified corn unfriendly to monarch butterfly

'Trojan' gene could cause extinction

McDonalds going GMO-free

CALENDAR OF CALAMITIES - 2000
(The RAFI "tongue-in-cheek" Revue of the scientific, political and media disasters that struck the Agbiotech industry since the BioSafety Protocol was adopted)

Genetic engineering and corporate profit

American Medical Association's Report on Genetically Modified Crops and Foods

Checkbiotech.org - information on agricultural biotechnology to contribute to an open debate

The milky way -- are we losing touch with good, simple things?

Consumer Guide to Toxics

Our bodies as battlefields

In Harm's way: Toxic Threats to Child Development (a report in pdf format)

What's causing girls to reach puberty earlier than ever?

Toxic Bodies: Endocrine Disruption, Our Imperiled Future

Latest News on Endocrine Disruptors

Trends in scientific findings about endocrine disruption

Recent important studies on Endocrine Disruptors

Health Concerns about Plastic Toys

Toxic Toys

World Awash in Chlorine Based Poisons

Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Consumer Guide to Action

Factsheets on Pesticides and their Alternatives

The Pesticide Advisor (Online guide)

Information on POPs pesticides

Possible Hazards of Pesticides and their Residues

Toxics: Pesticides and POPs

More information on the POPs treaty

Toxics: PVC

Toxics: Incineration and Landfills

Toxics: Flyash

Warning Labels are Not Enough

From ashes to abundance

How "Green" is Unleaded Gas?

Organic Farming Resources

An organic farmer's secret

How to Compost - Basic Information about Home Composting

The Compost Resource Page

Lots of Composting resources

Compost Ingredients - find out if and how you can compost an item

Gardening Tips and Other Goodies

Natural Insect Control

Pesticide Chart - what organic pesticide will treat which insect

Natural Pest Control Center

Alternatives to Pesticides

The Organic Cotton Site

Non-Chemical Pest Management in Cotton

Organic Cotton Factsheet

An Organic Gardeners First Aid Kit

 

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