CLEAN-India programme, an initiative of Development Alternatives was launched in 1996 with a vision of developing cleaner environment for our towns and cities through a network of schools and NGOs linked with Government, business, academic and other institutions. This nation-wide programme on environmental Assessment, Awareness, Action and Advocacy (4'A's) aims to mobilise community responsibility for environmental assessment and improvement in all major towns and cities of India, spearheaded by school students (our future citizens) at the fore. ... John May The Greenpeace Story Th...

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One visitor to the Romanian 'black town' of Cops Mica noted that "the trees and grass are so stained by soot that they look as if they had been soaked in ink." A local doctor reported that even horses can stay only for two years in the town; "then they have to be taken away, or else they will die" (Gore 81). ... We must recognize the consequences our actions have on the environment or we are doomed to keep on repeating our mistakes. ... How do we want our children to grow up? ... Deterioration, in the sense of all the pollutants which we constantly spew into our envi...

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One visitor to the Romanian 'black town' of Cops Mica noted that "the trees and grass are so stained by soot that they look as if they had been soaked in ink." A local doctor reported that even horses can stay only for two years in the town; "then they have to be taken away, or else they will die" (Gore 81).There are many reasons that pollution has come to the foreground of twentieth century politics. ... We must recognize the consequences our actions have on the environment or we are doomed to keep on repeating our mistakes. ... How do we want our children to grow up? ... ...

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