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Pakistan Climate Change

By Muskan Hina • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Features

World has gathered in Copenhagen to brood over the disastrous climate change in the world. While Taliban kill Pakistanis and we in Pakistan are uncertain about our survival, the world is worrying about it’s own survival and pro-actively trying to come up with measures to contain the emission of carbon dioxide.
Developing countries are also worried [...]



Do We Need a John Kerry for us to Talk Environment ?

By Guest Blogger • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

It’s a crime to take a good thing like the population’s concern for the environment and turn it into a socialist agenda like cap and trade in order to control business and remove the population’s wealth so that they also can be controlled more. The people want to clean up the environment, but they need [...]



The Environmantal Destruction

By The Pakistani Spectator • Dec 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Environmental destruction have now become the part of asain life.sometimes due to carelessness the conscious people about environment become the parts of environmental destruction.In this criteria, the destruction of constructed buildings,cars,the new technology,the industrial destruction,loss of greenery that provides medicines and helps in many areas,the loss of useful trees and much more like these destructions [...]



Plastic Bags – Prolific Problem

By Saleem Khan • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

The plastic bag is an icon of convenience culture, by some estimates the single most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, numbering in the trillions. Everyone knows how big the plastic bag problem is. Plastic bags don’t biodegrade. Instead, they photo-degrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits that clogging up our land, our drains, [...]



This is Where I Belong

By Mahtab Bashir • Jul 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Just over two and half decade past, I came into this world in capital city of Islamabad. Since many years after I took my senses, greenery, cleanliness and serenity were the pet words used to describe my birthplace. Unfortunately, I have lost these complimentary words and my childhood simultaneously. With the restructuring of the roads [...]



Corporate Responsibility in Pakistan?

By Saleem Khan • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development defines corporate responsibility as the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce, their families and the local community and society at large.
More than goodwill, corporate community involvement or [...]



Report: Biofuel caused food crisis

By Saleem Khan • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.
The figure emphatically contradicts [...]



Green Pakistan : An Elusive Dream

By Muskan Hina • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

How many people in Pakistan have heard of “Global Warming”, “Greenhouse Gases” and “Climate Legislative Regulations”? How many actually care about pollution and global warming and the emission of harmful gases? What efforts our successive governments have made to shift people away from damaging the environ?
According to the media reports, prior to the meeting of [...]