Cleaning up the frontyard

Some Delhi residents tackle the Capital's mountainous garbage problem as civic authorities apathetically look on

Budding brains

Children from all over India recently came together bursting with ideas on how to build a cleaner country

We can overcome

It was the most polluted city in the US, and now, it is the recipient of the UN Best Practices Award. Chattanoogans have spearheaded this …

Joy of learning can be a pain

Children fell victim to organisational inefficiency and indifference at the National Joy of Learning Festival held recently in the Capital

The roots of prosperity

The woods march back to barren forest department land as villagers in Gujarat's Panchmahals district grab the spade

Banking on thrift and credit

Cooperative banks initiated with assistance from an NGO in the Capital have plucked slumdwellers out of the red

Counting on origami

The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics

Literacy on the move

A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation

Tubelights give more than light to labs

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

A bank to save the embarrassment of riches

Surplus food from hotels in the Capital is no longer thrown away: A non-profit organisation that started recently collects the food and …

Home is where AIDS care is in Uganda

Instead of treating AIDS patients in hospitals, an organisation in Uganda is effectively extending health care to them in their own homes

Teaching children they will inherit the earth

In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …

Family plot

Timely practices of mulching, watering and pruning have allowed the Kachares to thrive on "barren" ground

Caught between boars and bureaucracy

Authorities of a wildlife sanctuary propose to curb the menace of rampaging wild boars by providing affected villagers with, among other things, …

A multi-pronged attack

The people of southern Zimbabwe have found a variety of ways and means to upgrade the quality of the environment in their part of the world

Money for nothing?

A revolutionary system of trade, the LETSystem, helps communities meet their requirements without depending on hard cash

Dharohar's dividends

Farmers and activists in Bastar reject high-yielding rice varieties to preserve traditional varieties

Coimbatore attempts to save waterbodies

Jharkhand tribals build their own government homes

Reviving nature

A professor heralds hope and greenery into a remote Orissa village to set it free from a web of untouchability, superstition, illiteracy and poverty

Out of the depths

Women water-users are determined to have their say in water management policymaking

Rising above the muck

The residents of an unauthorised colony in Delhi battle all odds for a cleaner life

Water in the sand

Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch

Organ thieves, beware

Ground truths

Villagers in Nepal flummox experts by 'reading' satellite images