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When Worlds Collide #119: Long way to lowering Lanka’s Deadly Diesel Hazard
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 29 August 2014 Progress is slow and incremental. Those who take all-or-nothing positions often end up with…nothing. So let’s hail Sri Lanka’s leading petroleum distributor introducing a … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Biofuels, Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Energy Conservation, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Public policy, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged air quality, Air Resource Management Center (AirMAC), Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, ‘Lanka Super Diesel 4 Star’, cancer, carcinogen, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), diesel subsidy, diesel sulphur content, Dr Sunil Chandrasiri, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), National Environmental Act, PM10, Professor Oliver Ileperuma, Sri Lanka air pollution, sulphur dioxide, super diesel, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organisation (WHO)
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When Worlds Collide #115: Fast-tracking Road Safety in Sri Lanka
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 18 July 2014 The Apollo 8 space mission, which lasted from 21 to 27 December 1968, was the first time that a manned spacecraft left Earth orbit, … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Communicating Development, Disaster, Education, Environmental management, Poverty, Public health, Public perceptions, Public policy, Road Safety, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged Achini C Jayatilleke, Apollo 8, Astronaut Bill Anders, ‘pirimi kama’ (masculinity), ‘Transport for Health: The Global Burden of Disease from Motorized Road Transport’, celestial mechanics, Decade of Action for Road Safety, Dr Achala Upendra Jayatilleke, Dr Jim Yong Kim, Dr Samath D Dharmarathne, Global Burden of Disease 2010 report, Global status report on road safety 2013, helmet use, Isaac Newton, National Council for Road Safety (NCRS), Peradeniya University, road safety, road traffic crashes, testosterone, The Lancet, World Health Organisation (WHO)
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When Worlds Collide #97: Living on the Edge – South Asia’s Coastal Scramble
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 14 February 2014 Many different worlds collide on the coast – both literally and metaphorically. Coasts are where land meets the sea. A precise coastline cannot be … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Commerce, Climate change, Communicating Development, Disaster, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Indian Ocean, Poverty, Public policy, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Travel, Urban issues, Water, Water management
Tagged Bangladesh, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Chandra Bhushan, climate impacts, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), coastal resource management, coastal zone, Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP), coasts, commercial ports, Ibrahim Naeem, India, industrialisation, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), Livelihoods, Maldives, Pakistan, Pondicherry, PondyCAN, Probir Banerjee, SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre, South Asia Convention on Coastal Management, Sri Lanka, Sunita Narain, thermal power plants, tourism development, urbanisation
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When Worlds Collide #89: Our Long Road to Cleaner and Safer Cities…
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 27 October 2013 Indian environmental activist Sunita Narain was seriously injured while cycling in New Delhi last Sunday, October 20. She was hit by a car while … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Poverty, Public health, Road Safety, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged air pollution can cause cancer, Altaf Makhiawala, Anumita Roychowdhury, ‘cycle satyagraha’, Bogotá, bus rapid transit system, car centred cities, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), cycling accident, cycling in New Delhi, Decade of Action for Road Safety, eco-mobility, Enrique Peñalosa, Global status report on road safety 2013, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Kolkata, non-motorised transport, Sunita Narain, University of Michigan, World Health Organisation (WHO)
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When Worlds Collide #73: Stuck in Fast Forward? Slow Down!
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 7 July 2013 I’m a slow reader of books. I do it deliberately hemin-hemin. Oh, I can read fast when I really have to — … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Business & Commerce, Culture, Environmental policy, Poverty, Road Safety, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged Carl Honoré, Carlo Petrini, Cittaslow, Festina lente, In Praise of Slow, John Miedema, Luddites, McDonald’s, slow art, Slow Food movement, slow media and even slow cities, Slow Movement, slow parenting, slow sex movement, slow travel, time poverty
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When Worlds Collide #64: Good Governance for Clean Energy
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 28 April 2013 One of my favourite cartoons on energy is one drawn years ago by Australian cartoonist Ron Tandberg. It shows two men standing on … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Biofuels, Climate change, Communicating Development, Energy Conservation, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Power & Energy, Public health, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged Asoka Abeygunawardana, coal, Dr Janaka Ratnasiri, energy efficiency, Energy Forum, energy independence, Good governance, Lalith Gunaratne, National Energy Policy and Strategy (NEPS), petroleum, power sector regulation, renewable energy, Ron Tandberg, Smart grid, solar photovoltaic, Sri Lanka oil imports 2012, sun, the ocean, transparency, trees, wind
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