Is your hospital a health hazard(Tamil)
It may look quite unbelivable that the hospitals, supposed to be the guaradians of public health is really endangering their well being though, unwillingly or sometimes, unknowingly. The villain is Mercury which is a major componet of majority of medical equipments, especially of day today use like thermometers and sphygmomanometers. This booklet looks in to the details of hazards lurking in hospitals.

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  Your dental practice could be killing you and your family(Tamil)
A study shows that dentists carry a substantially higher level of mercury than the rest of the population. Their families are also exposed to higher levels of mercury.

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  Factsheet on idol immersion: Go green in your idol immersion practices(Tamil), April 2008
Nature’s rhythm, seasonal changes and the cycle of life and death have found religious and spiritual re-enforcement through a number of traditional Indian festivals. Based on the theme of resurgence and rejuvenation many of them involve immersion of idols in to water bodies as a symbol of returning to the elements, which give life back to the earth for a new cycle to begin again. The factsheet discusses pollution elements in idol immersion.

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  Washing the dirty linen: hospital waste management
By Anu Agrawal
Published in Terragreen
We have all visited hospitals and nursing homes and been very careful about new syringes and making sure that old ones are trashed. But here’s a question: Whatever happens to that trash? What do they do with the waste generated in hospitals?

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  2007: A year of massacre for Delhi trees
By Parvinder Singh
Published in Toxics Link
A conversation between those talking for the trees and those cutting them never really took-off, as the planners never believed that the trees ever had a chance. Call it the death of reason or something deeper, while thousands of trees were cut this year, and many more will continue to be felled.

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 Downside of the Digital Revolution
By Satish Sinha
Published in Toxics Link
India’s IT revolution is the major contributor to the fast growing economy of the country. But the other side of the digital revolution is grim which reminds the producers, consumers and policy makers of a mounting problem; the new generation waste or E- waste. The article takes stock of the E—waste generation in the country and the future threats from E- waste.

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