WHETHER it’s a resolution or if you want to be part of a much needed revolution, it’s time to be part of the ‘Greenolution’! What’s a Greenolution? Think of it as a green solution, green resolution or even a green revolution! Whatever you call it, Mother Earth is begging for it. Begin 2011 prepared to love - love the planet you live on, love the fruit it bears you - and back that love with actions to prove it. Here’s how.

Neither the Tourism Department nor the Environmental Ministry are concerned over identifying and penalising the culprits or even clearing the tar balls with a sense of urgency.

WORLD Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on June 5. The first World Environment Day was celebrated back in 1973. It was the day when the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began. WED is hosted every year by a different city with a particular theme. It commemorates with an international exposition during the week that June 5 falls in.

By Tara Narayan

IMAGINE LIFE without water! Imagine life without water to drink to quench a raging thirst. Imagine life without a bath, morning and night. Imagine life without wearing clean, washed clothes. Imagine life without water to wash clothes and cooking vessels in the kitchen. Imagine life without water to swab the floors at home… yes, go on, imagine life without water.

BY RAJAN NARAYAN

THE SCANDAL in the performance or non performance of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) goes far beyond diverting its daily wage workers to work at the residence of the Taleigao MLA and Education Minister, Babush Monserrate. Indeed, a close scrutiny of the audit report of the CCP, secured under the Right to Information Act by councillor Surendra Furtado, reveals that the CCP is the mother of all Satyams. K V K Raju, the promoter and chairman of Satyam, admitted to having manipulated the accounts of the multinational information technology company. He also admitted to inflating the numbers of those working for Satyam. But the sins of omission and commission of the CCP under the former mayor Tony Rodrigues, who functioned as a puppet of the Taliegao MLA Babush Monserrate, are much worse than that committed by Raju. Indeed, the audit report of the CCP is a sordid saga of incompetence, misappropriation and rampant corruption. The dishonourable mayor and the councillors have been bleeding the CCP for their own personal benefit.

ONE OF the most significant outcomes of the citizens’ movement Goa Bachao Abhiyan is the focus on restoring Goa’s agricultural base. Perhaps Goans are finally realising that while all things agricultural, horticultural and floricultural are compatible with tourism — in which so many Goans are engaged in today - industrialisation, urbanisation and the concrete jungles which come along with them are not. Even as efforts to address vital issues affecting Goans such as land use and exploitation of vanishing natural resources continue, there’re a few heart-warming things to cheer about.