The waste of nations

There is a seamier aspect to the outsourcing boom: waste

Useful excreta

A Sri Lankan company uses elephant dung to make paper and profits

Poop-corn culture

The Inca empire thrived on innovations to boost maize production

Every cow-pat counts

Even the lowly cow-pat has ownership rules in rural India. But rights over dung, an important source of energy and soil fertilisation, vary from …

Efficient use of a scarce resource

Many organisations promote the use of fuel-efficient stoves for cooking, which is the biggest consumer of energy in India.

Organic chemistry

Hollagaru farmers reap rich dividends by going organic

Biogas rediscovered

Innovative Vidarbha farmers make biogas plants viable.

Biogas can solve nation's energy problems

Both government and voluntary agencies are helping to spread biogas technology, which can provide clean fuel and enriched manure as well as …

The Bandipur-Brazil corridor

In Bandipur: dung sold at Rs 3,000 a lorry load.In Brazil: a ravaged coffee crop. Asks nitin sethi : what's the relation?

Liquid asset

What exactly is this US patent on the cow urine-antibiotic combination?

Punjab's spiritual farming

Organic Universe

Organic is all the rage. Organic food, cosmetics, clothes and even organic medicines. But mostly it is food. There are speciality stores that …

Seeking the right symbol

The challenge of the chulha

Potters’ wisdom for last journey

Agents Of Change, Animal Dung, Bihar, Scientists, Forest Conservation, Traditional Knowledge

No pesticides no debts

The logic of importing lowly dung

Poop pays

Manure magic

Farmers living in the upper reaches of Nepal have developed an ingenious way of maintaining soil fertility

Doting on dung

Kenyan ingenuity uses elephant dung for making paper

Blast from the ancient past

No to organic farming

Rice originated in India

Fresh evidence from dung of dinosaurs changes many conceptions

Falling prey

Dung magic

An investment of Rs 300 can bring electricity to every household in rural India. Humble cow dung can do this and more