The Web on the Environment   www.earth-policy.org This is the website created by Lester Brown’ Earth Policy Institute. It has in-depth information about building a sustainable future and links to his ground-breaking book, Plan B, Mobilizing to Save Civilization.   www.climatecounts.org Gary Hirshberg, founder of Stonyfield Farm, which makes organic yoghurt, launched this website to rank major corporations, from Pepsi to Microsoft on the basis of 22 criteria, including measuring their carbon footprint, reducing emissions and supporting climate legislation. “We have to stop treating the Earth as if it were a wholly-owned subsidiary of our economy.” he says.   www.350.org 350.org is an organisation engaged in fighting climate change and in minimising its impact. It’s called 350.org because of the consensus amongst the scientific community that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere must be reduced from the current level of 387 parts per million, to 350 ppm.   www.greenpeace.org/in No elaboration really needed.   www.storyofstuff.com An excellent animation on just how wasteful we can all be – crisp and brilliant! A new addition to the website is on the story of cap and trade; the farce that carbon credits really are.   www.downtoearth.org.in The web version of the magazine of the same name. Down to Earth has had the maximum impact on environmental issues of any publication and provides regular updates, views and policy analyses on climate change. Past issues have fabulous data on virtually any environmental issue.   www.sanctuaryasia.org Set up by the Sanctuary magazine, this has considerable depth of content on wildlife research and conservation in India and is recommended reading for wildlife amateurs, seeking information. Increasingly focusing on the impact of climate change on wildlife.   www.indiawaterportal.com An excellent website on anything to do with water, set up by Arghyam, a water-security non profit foundation in Bangalore.   www.vulturerescue.org There’s something fascinating about vultures, a bird long reviled by the common person, yet about as endearing a creature as ever lived. Well, the vulture is in serious danger of extinction, thanks to a modern drug that is used in vet medicine; when the vulture eats the carcass of an animal that has traces of this drug in its body, it dies a quick death. To know more, to help protect this bird and to read about the current efforts being made, please go to this marvellous website.   www.ncf-india.org The Nature Conservation Foundation is an outstanding wildlife & forestry research foundation, based in Mysore, but doing work in various parts of India. The website has an excellent blog, called ecologic : reasoned reconciliation between people and nature, with a lovely set of photographs by the NCF team.   www.wti.org.in Wildlife Trust of India is a field based organisation, doing excellent work in conserving wildlife, anti-poaching, rescuing and rehabilitating injured and abandoned animals, providing kits and insurance to forest guards and in busting illegal trade in wildlife. Its site is worth a regular visit, as a newspaper on wildlife and is most competently managed by the Web host.   www.indiatogether.com This is an odd site to recommend here. It is, though, a terrific one, dealing with issues in India sociology, environment, human rights and related subjects. The best of writers, good related searchs and in-depth research make this website a very useful one. Highly recommended to subscribe to their RSS feeds.   The Web on the Environment – the best links I know