Plastic waste is causing a sea of trouble by poisoning and slowly killing marine life

Can you imagine toxic styrene from the disposable plate at someone’s birthday party in the blood of a tiny sea creature?

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 05, 2018 · 07:30 am

As bioplastics get popular in India, a more genuine green choice is to boot out plastic altogether

For many types of plastic, the only valid alternative is a lifestyle shift.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 04, 2018 · 07:30 am

India’s waste crisis: Clean-up drives are not the solution – they only address visual pollution

There is a lot that goes wrong even after we securely place our trash in the bin.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 03, 2018 · 06:30 am

Blocking out the poor: Why the attitude of many urban middle class volunteers at my NGO bothers me

Their gated, guarded, supervised lives do not seem to allow for osmosis with the larger world.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Apr 19, 2018 · 08:00 am

Why the Indian government must rescind GST levied on scraps of plastic, paper, cardboard and glass

It will worsen environmental conditions, exacerbate poverty and defeat the aims of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jul 23, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Is this book the obituary we do not want written for India’s wildlife?

It’s hard to find good news in Prerna Singh Bindra’s study of India’s vanishing bio-diversity.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jul 22, 2017 · 08:30 am

What a waste: All parties talk of cleaning Delhi in civic polls manifestos, but none know how

Making the national capital garbage-free is a common poll plank, but the parties have not gotten to the root of the problem.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Apr 22, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s dismissal of expert report reflects India’s challenges protecting its rivers

The battle to restore the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi has at least four lessons for Indians, says an environmental activist.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Apr 16, 2017 · 05:30 pm

The Art of Living case illustrates how narrowly most urban Indians view the environment

The banks of the Yamuna should not be tamed, but be helped to grow back into the patch of plastic-free, spongy, squishy, sandy wilderness it once was.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 12, 2016 · 05:30 pm

The proposal to build a bio-diversity park where Art of Living held its culture festival is flawed

Besides being unnecessary, a park by the banks of the Yamuna will turn a moment for public atonement into an opportunity to squat on the land.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Mar 31, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Why the Art of Living celebrations signal the death of Delhi's Yamuna floodplains

Sri Sri Ravi Shanker’s organisation plans to hold a festival between March 11 to 13, flouting all environmental regulations.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Mar 03, 2016 · 11:30 am

As garbage continues to pile up in East Delhi, a lesson on how to better manage our waste

Composting needs to be brought to the forefront of our efforts to clean up cities.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Feb 05, 2016 · 02:30 pm