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NEWSLETTER

EcoConsumer

This quarterly newsletter is published by CUTS Centre for Sustainable Production and  Consumption (C-SPAC) to report and discuss developments in relation to sustainable consumption world over. It covers issues such as global warming, environment friendly technologies and products, eco-labelling and a host of related topics, including ecofrig i.e. environmentally friendly refrigerator and also reports initiatives taken by various countries to meet the objectives of the Montreal Protocol on the Protection of Ozone Layer, 1987 and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, 1998.

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E-NEWSLETTER

Chapter-4

A publication of the CUTS Centre for Sustainable Production and Consumption (C-SPAC) based at Calcutta, India, which has the mission “to achieve the citizens' right to be protected against unsafe goods, services and environment, and to promote sustainable production and consumption, and provoke questioning and action''. This e-circulation attempts to invoke awareness among the various sections of society about the issues related to sustainable production and consumption.

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BRIEFING PAPERS

Sustained Advertising Promoting Unsustainable Consumption  (No.2/1996)

Consuming Sustainably-About Consumption and Production Patterns (No.7/1996)

Ecofrig: Make the Right Choice Now! (Sustainable Consumption Series, No.1/1998)

Advertising and Consumption: The Unholy Nexus (Sustainable Consumption Series, No.1/1999)  

Water Sustainability- Issues for Development (No.1/2002)

South Asian Consultation on Atmospheric Issues (No.2/2002)

World Summit on Sustainable Development (No.3/2002)

Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol- Options before South Asian Countries (No.4/2002)

REPORTS

10 Years of Montreal Protocol: The Ecofrig Revolution

An international consultation held at Zurich-Ruschlikon, Switzerland during September 2-3, 1997, and jointly organised by CUTS and the Swiss Coalition of Development Organisations. It addressed the issue of the application of chloro-fluro-carbons (CFCs, major ozone-depleting substances) in the refrigeration and cooling sector. It was decided to launch an international information and education campaign on environment-friendly refrigerator in developing countries. (#9706 Rs.100/US$25)

Ecofrig: Make the Right Choice Now! 

A national consultation on ecofrig campaign launched in New Delhi, India during September 16-17, 1998. It took stock of the growth of ecofrig in India and evolved a strategy to promote environment-friendly refrigerator among consumers in India and elsewhere.  (#9813 Rs. 100/$25)

Regional Workshops on Sustainable Consumption and Ecofrig

A series of three workshops held at Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai, India during Janury-March, 1999 to deliberate upon the strategies to reach out to consumer and environmental groups in different parts of the country.  (#9904 Rs100/$20)

Training Workshop on Sustainable Consumption and Ecofrig

A report of the proceedings of the national workshop held in Jaipur in 1999, which evolved a comprehensive strategy to deepen the campaign on sustainable consumption and ecofrig in India. It provides beautiful explanation for sustainable consumption and in the context of India. The report is good asset for anyone who wants to know more about ecofrig and sustainable consumption.(#9911 Rs100/$20)

STUDIES

Green Advertisements: Are they telling the truth?
The study tries to analyse how International Organisation of Standardisations' ISO 14021 standards on self declared environmental claims are been violated in India with the help of 16 case studies. It also tries to find out if there was any need to indulge in self-declared labels and claims and the possible reasons behind industry's effort to avoid Indian Ecolabel Ecomark or even abort it. (#C-0101, Rs. 100/$25) ISBN 81-87222-42-5

Greening the Lead Acid Battery Sector: Structure, Problem and Needs
CUTS has implemented a project titled 'Targeted lobbying and training initiatives to promote Ecomark for primary batteries/ cells and facilitate environment friendly lead smelting" with support from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India in May 2001. This document looks at this effort in the retrospect analyses the effort and explains what needs to be done in light of the battery (Management and Handling) rules 2001 enacted on May 16, 2001. (32pp #C-0102, Rs.25/$10) ISBN 81-87222-43-3

Quest for a better environment
In India, multi-national refrigeration companies are trying to promote their products as environment-friendly under the pretext of using ozone-depleting-substance-free technology. But actually they are using hydro-fluoro-carbon technology that is adding to global warming. All these manufacturers have the capacity and the know-how to produce HC-based refrigerator in India. But they hardly have any regard for the Indian consumers. Hence, CUTS Centre for Sustainable Production and Consumption (CUTS-CSPAC) felt the need of exposing the double-standards of these multinational refrigerator manufacturers through continuous public education with the objective of generating consumer awareness and putting pressure on these companies to change over to environment-friendly product. This monograph is an effort to present our activities in this regard, in the quest for a better environment. (30pp #C-0103, Rs. 30/$5) ISBN 81-87222-45-X
 

DISCUSSION PAPER

Sacrificing Our Future - The New Economic Policy and The Environment

A collection of three articles documenting the impact of new economic policy on the environment during the periods 1991-93, 1993-94 and 1994-95 written by Ashish Kothari with Miloon Kothari which critically analyses the economic policy of the Govt of India since reforms were adopted in 1991 and their adverse impact on the ecology, and suggests ways out.(#9510 Rs 20/US$ 10)

MONOGRAPHS

Snapshots from the Sustainability Route — A Sample Profile from India

Consumption is an indicator of both economic development and also social habits. The disparity in consumption pattern has always been explained in the context of the rural urban divide in India. The monograph analyses the consumption patter of India from the point of view of the global trend towards sustainable consumption. (#9903 Rs.15/$5)