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How we said NO to GMO!
It started about a month ago with a tiny idea of opposing the genetic modification of crops. The idea came from the trip to Rahuri, a small affected village on the Pune-Mumbai highway. Two members from Hou de Green, the Pune volunteer group, helped out in the protests and got a better insight of the…
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Activists slam Ministry of Home Affairs for targeting NGOs
Civil society leaders today joined Greenpeace India to call on the Ministry of Home Affairs for targeting NGOs. Activists demanded that the government respects NGO’s right to dissent. Supreme Court…
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Sustaining with solar
zoom 03 November 2014 Greenpeace Bangalore office solar-ed rooftop
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The Sweet Taste Of Victory
Less than two months ago, Greenpeace India launched a report titled, Trouble Brewing, highlighting the presence of a cocktail of pesticide residues in tea. The day the report launched, seven…
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NGT declares Forest Clearance for Mahan Coal Ltd Invalid
“…It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot…
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Dirty Coal is shown the back door
For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.- Dr. Archie Carr The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to scrap 214 coal block…
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Climate summit comment: From Bihar, India, could distributed solar succeed where coal has failed?
India is a country where the centralised grid system for electricity has dominated the last 60 years and, largely, failed. In the cities blackouts are frequent, in the rural areas there is often no power at all. The grid doesn’t provide energy access to more than a third of the rural population. Despite a growing…
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End to the solar eclipse in Delhi?
15 May 2013 Delhi RE action outside Delhi energy minister Haroon Yusuf residence. © Greenpeace India So Delhi’s solar eclipse is finally receding. After two years of dilly-dallying and…
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Supreme Court Deems Mahan Coal Block Allocation Illegal
The Supreme Court deemed in an order on August 25 that all coal block allocations since 1993 are ‘illegal’ on grounds of arbitrariness, legal flaws lack of transparency, fairness and…