Gobar Times is a monthly environmental education magazine for the young adult, published by the Centre for Science and Environment.

The icon of the magazine, Pandit Gobar Ganesh, the pondering panditji is an Indian elderly who takes the reader through current issues, subjects and ideas relating to the environment.

Waste gobar serves as an insecticide and is used to plaster mud houses and is a waterproof coating for walls.

As he correctly reflected, the widespread and diverse use of gobar in Indian society stands up to every principle of good environmentalism.

In May 1992, the Society for Environmental Communications started India’s only science and environment fortnightly, Down To Earth (DTE).

Over the years the magazine has informed and inspired people about environmental threats facing India and the world - a dimension underplayed in mainstream media.

This inspection or survey of environmental practices at schools[1][2] is a way for them to audit their immediate environment across the key areas of water, air, land, energy and waste.

The data collected by students is compiled and rated such that it becomes a self-assessment tool of environmental practices followed by the school.

The aim of the rating is, to understand what can be done to improve the schools performance on its environmental sustainability index and to implement measurable changes over the coming years.