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Lets make the earth day i.e 27th March by switching off the light from 8:30 to 9:30 voluntarily and join hands with the world for environmental protection
lets be a responsible citizen
What is PERC?
What does PERC do?
PERC scholars provide the intellectual capital that fuels our approach to environmental problems and how to solve them. It is possible to avoid more regulation, government bureaucracy, and financial waste, and, instead, solve environmental problems in a cooperative and collegial manner. Markets and property rights can show us the way. PERC’s goal is to reach the broadest possible audience, including government officials, environmentalists, opinion makers, policy experts, grassroots environmentalists, entrepreneurs, scholars, and students. PERC’s ideas can be a beacon that leads us to a better environment using a better process. This is what PERC does:- Research and Policy Analysis - Original research by PERC scholars and fellows leads to new policies and approaches for applying free market environmentalism to a wide variety of natural resource issues. Current topics of research include public lands management, water marketing, timber, Native American institutions, protection of fish and wildlife habitat, fisheries preservation, conservation easements, environmental entrepreneurship, the shifting relationship between resource extraction and resource protection, and use issues
- Outreach - PERC's research is widely distributed to policy makers, congressional staff members, journalists, business executives, academics, and opinion leaders. In this way, it can be incorporated into the thinking and planning that goes into policy formation. It also serves to define a new way of thinking about how to solve environmental problems. Outreach takes the form of a quarterly magazine, books, articles, and policy papers, email alerts, web sites, internet publications, and a stimulating array of conferences, workshops, speaking engagements, expert testimony, and fellowships, as well as several events specifically for journalists.
- Education - PERC offers a wide array of educational materials, curricula, and programs to every level of learner from middle school to professionals. From curricula for young students, to a syllabus for college students and programs at PERC for both undergraduate and graduate students, PERC aims to meet the needs of a whole spectrum of students. It also offers intense seminars and fellowships for early career conservationists, business professionals, and young professors as well as senior scholars.
Programs
As PERC has grown over the past 25 years, so too have the number and range of programs that we are able to offer. Many, but not all of the in-residence programs include a stipend, room and board, and travel expenses or at least some of these amenities. Some programs are open to the public and others are limited in size and designed for particular groups, such as conservation professionals or professors. These require applications, and the entire process can be completed online.
To give you an idea of the wealth of PERC programs see the list below. Click on the name for current details and applications when appropriate.
- Undergraduate Student Seminar
- for college juniors and seniors - Graduate and Law Student Fellowships
- Roe Legal Fellowship
- Eviropreneur Camp
-early career conservation leaders - Four Colloquia Co-sponsored by Liberty Fund and PERC
- for undergraduate students, graduate students, conservation professionals, early career professors and scholars - Lone Mountain Fellowships
- for scholars, journalists, policy-makers, and environmentalists - Julian Simon Fellowship
- for scholars to develop policy-oriented research on natural resource and environmental conservation. - Media Fellowships
-for reporters, writers, broadcast journalists - Annual Conference for Journalists
- Political Economy Forum
- professional conservationists and scholars - Annual Lone Mountain Summit
-environmentalists actively working on critical issues - Teacher Workshops
- Seminars for Congressional Staff
- Regional Colloquia
-the public - An Evening with PERC
- the public
For more information kindly log on to : http://www.perc.org/index.php
CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Rainfed Livestock Network (RLN) is a national coalition of organizations and individualsattempting to build a macro-economic case for better targeted publicinvestments and policies in support of non-dairy, low-input and diverselivestock production systems in arid and semi-arid India. This objective of thenetwork derives from a number of localized understandings and experiences thatpoint to the crucial role played by these neglected livestock productionsystems in sustaining low-income households. Yet, such animal husbandry remains peripheral to mainstream livestockpolicies and government investments.
RLN is exploring the case that a reorientation in public policies and investments with a focus on these marginallivestock production systems can contribute substantially to the growth of the livestocksector, poverty reduction more generally and to ecological restoration.
RLN invites applications to undertake applied research in support of building the case for such a reorientationin livestock policy. Within this broad framework,studies may focus on issues such as mapping the spatial distribution of suchsystems across the country, profiling the contribution of these livestocksystems to the GDP and people dependent on them, analysis of production systemsand the natural resource base of such systems and demographic and spatial trendsover time.
Interested researchers should send resumes with 3 references, 2 sample publications and a brief expression ofinterest to Coordinator, RainfedLivestock Network (email: rainfedlivestocknetwork@gmail.com). RLNwill be looking for research support on an ongoing basis.
The Rainfed Livestock Network is funded by the Ford Foundation, New Delhi and is anchored by Foundation forEcological Security, Anand, Gujarat.
CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRA-network) is a network of organizations andindividuals attempting to build a macro-economic case for improved targeting ofpublic investments and policies in support of rain-fed agriculture. The networkhas emerged based on the collective understanding that agricultural policiesdesigned for relatively secure and well-endowed parts of the country have beenindiscriminately extended into rainfed areas. Such an extension has contributed to a range of crises, including the depletionof groundwater and natural resources, escalating input costs, and a seculardecline in farmers’ incomes.
This network is pursuing a broad engagement with practitioners, researchers and government on issues confronting rain-fed areas. The networkhopes to use evidence from different parts of the country, in combination withmacro-economic and other research to build the case for a shift in agriculturalpolicy. The network believes that such a re-orientation in public policy will contributeto both regional economic growth and ecological restoration of rain-fedareas.
RRA-Netowrk invites applications from researchers to undertake a range of studies to further our understanding of the existingstructure and regional disparities in public investments (around subsidies,support prices, the structuring of the PDS, the availability of credit and soon), develop simulations to model macro-economic returns under a range of policy/investmentregimes in rainfed India and analysis of various policy options.
Interested researchers should send resumes with 3 references, 2 sample publications and a brief expression of interest to Coordinator, Revitalising RainfedAgriculture Network (email: rainfedfarming@gmail.com). RRA will be looking for research support onan ongoing basis..
The Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network is funded by the Hivos-Ford Foundation Dryland Agriculture Fund and is anchored at WASSAN,Hyderabad.
Dear All,
I am looking for Environmental Head contact numbers for Mittal Steels,India.So please provide me any contact number of above mentioned.
Best Regards,
Subhash
+91-9000660344
EIA Notification 2006 has provided the generic structure of the EIA report. But after providing the structure in ministry notification is there a need to provide model EIA structure like model TOR for various projects.
After attending meeting one can feel that he should prepare and present his case in a manner acceptable to the person sitting on opposite chair and not as per the EIA structure
A gazette notification of 26th November 2009 exempts 190 plant species from the purview of the National Biodiveristy Act 2002 if traded as commodities (that is for exports). Many of the plants on this list are threatened. The notification is on the NBA website -Biological Resources notified as normally traded commodities under section 40 of BD Act, 2002 http://www.nbaindia .org/notificatio n.htm
Also this list has been prepared in-transparently without a due process and many senior government officials, state biodiversity boards are not aware of it.
The fact that India trades value added products such as spices, resins, coffee seeds etc is acceptable but are we trading Banyan and Peepal trees? In addition are we trading threatened plants such as Chlorophytum borivilianum and many others. We did compare it with the threatened list on the NBRI website and found that many of them match.
To confirm this, those of you who are well informed about the threatened plants of India, can you please throw some light on this and if possible help identify the threatened plants on this notification or send/give a link to a list of an updated threatened plant species. It will be most helpful.
Looking forward to your comments,
Warm Regards,
Bhargavi S.Rao
bhargavi_srao@yahoo.com
Minister asked a Punjab farmer during a public hearing “Why are you protesting against Bt Brinjal?”
Banta Singh said “Sir ji, usmein Monsanto neih “cry one for all” (Cry 1Ac) toxin jo paa ditta hein”.
Is Water Really Scarce?
Answer to my question may seem to be very obvious i.e. "YES", however i have contradictions to this. According to my best of the knoweledge water will never be scarce on our planet.
We often mistake water with fresh water. I agree that fresh water (aquifers, rivers, glaciers) is depleting at a very rapid pace and the graph is ever surging. This is due to our rapid civilization, industrialization, population growth and lower mortality rate. But the water itself is not losing its characterstics, it is in a different physical form that is not suitable for human use. Our hydrological cycle is still into existence but our earth is not able to seep that water due to concrete blanket over it. This water thus overflows into nalas then to rivers and ultimately mixes with marine water.
Since inception of mankind, we have taken water as granted and have believed that water is available free in nature.
Purifying any form of water to drinking form, cost some energy and that is what takes on our pocket.
I strongly believe that the real problem is NOT WATER BUT ENERGY.
Comments and suggestions invited.
RAjat Bansal
Dear Friends,
My self Rohan i am doing PGD in Environmental Science, i need information about Public Consultation & Presentation for my project purpose so please help me what is this topic is actually what it contains.
thanx & Regards,
Rohan Kale
I have uploaded a brief info (as a blog in http://www.paryavaran.com/profiles/blogs/change-in-water-quality-due-to) earlier in my profile regarding the said topic. With the help of this forum I want to seek guidance from the experts and professionals to throw some light on some of my queries:
- How hydrocarbon products (such as Automobile lubricants etc.) penetrate in the soil?
- What are the possible patterns and factors involved?
- Has there been any studies carried out in relation to this topic?
Regards
H. Tonsana
http://tonsana.blogspot.com/
BHUBANESWAR: Mohua, a prominent forest produce, is generally known for its usage in manufacturing of traditional liquor. But, it is all set to serve breakfast tables after its transformation into yummy jam and jelly.
Guess who are processing it into jam and jelly? Women members of remote forest villages in Nayagarh district have taken the lead. Hundreds of visitors at the ongoing tribal fair here are halting for a moment in front of the stall selling jam and jelly made of ‘mohua’ and taken note of the product. Mahua’ has been a very popular non-timber forest produce among tribals of Orissa since time immemorial. It is a deciduous tree found both in forest as well as non-forest areas in all parts of the State. In fact it is common throughout central India-Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
“Mohua’ cannot be kept for long duration for which it never fetches its actual value in the market. We made little technological intervention by removing stigma part of ‘mohua’ flower which is causing bitter smell. Then dried ‘mohua’ is altered to paste. After addition of preservatives, the jam and jelly are ready for consumption,”. “Sagadbhanga and Gocchabari are two villages located in the fringe of Baisipalli Wildllife Sanctuary in Nayagarh district where the experiment is carried and 10 kg of dried ‘mahua’ has been processed into delicious ‘mohua’ jam and jelly,” says Sweta Mishra, programme officer of Vasundhara. Now the women groups have come together to form a cooperative called ‘Ma Panthei Mahila Cooperative’ to have collective procurement and trading of the forest produce.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/08/stories/2010020855300300.htm
