Review: Global Biodiversity Outlook 3

The review of the book appears in the current issue of the Asia-Pacific Mountain Courier (AP Mountain Courier) on ‘mountain biodiversity’. The issue is available online and in print, and is distributed free of cost to interested stakeholders.

14 million Nepalese shit in the open

So reads the hoarding board inside the Bhat Bhateni supermarket complex and a few other places in Kathmandu. Part of the World’s Longest Toilet Queue campaign targeted towards World Water day 2010 (celebrated every year on the 22 of March) the text roughly translated reads Even today, 14 million Nepalese Read more…

blame it on the climate (Part deux)!!

I shared my earlier post with quite a number of friends and most seem to have misjudged my stance on climate change. I have never denied that climate change/global warming is an issue. The only bothersome aspect about climate change lies in the communication – the fear mongering, and associating Read more…

No bread? Let them eat cake

““Let them eat cake.”1 Well mud cakes for that matter, for break fast, lunch and dinner. Haitians seem to have resorted to eating mud cakes after basic amenities like (rice, beans and milk) became unaffordable. Rising oil prices meant unaffordable food prices, specially in the Caribbean where most of the Read more…