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, …
Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …
What car is this anyway?
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta
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 …
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
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
Churning the stilled waters
The citizens of Udaipur are increasingly taking on the government to check degradation of the city's famed lakes
A motley crew of forest protectors
In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …
Project brings cheap cement to the village
Narasimharaju's dream of providing inexpensive cement for rural use will come true when his plant starts production later this year.
Children teach elders with play on street
Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their …
United, these survive, save and survive
A voluntary organisation is transforming the lifestyles of villagers by involving women in collective work. The men are also following suit, but …
Fishing cooperative 'dies' of too much prosperity
So successful was the Siandi experiment in cooperative fishing and prawn culture, vested interests just would not allow it to continue
A step towards health rights for women
Saheli, a Delhi-based women's organisation, has, for some time, been fighting against long-acting female contraceptives like Net-oen and Norplant-…
Contacts with young minds
Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition