Silk route to success

With the launch of a sericulture project in Vidisha, a district in Madhya Pradesh, the lifestyle of the rural women undergoes a metamorphosis

A silent worker

How NREGA helped Panihari village

Cooling Earth

Municipalities in the Netherlands are exerting pressure on the national government to reduce carbon dioxide emission by half by AD 2010

The pitfalls of protection

To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good …

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

The spirit of water

Mahadapur goes green the 'group irrigation management' way

A tradition that got washed away

For more than a century, the people of Motepur used to build an earthen dam on the Punpun river every two years. Today, wage labour has replaced …

Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Tribals solve problems through self - reliance

The Budakattu Krishikara Sangha, with its emphasis on people-oriented strategies, has improved tremendously the lot of the tribals in and around …

A school with an ecological curriculum

For 45 years, a school in Kausani has been inculcating ecological consciousness in hill women

From reservations to recognition

Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda.…

Taking the magic out of miracles

Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do

Value addition

A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

Saved from the axe

Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.

Oases of fertility

The Sarvodaya Ashram in Uttar Pradesh has helped regenerate of hectares of saline land.

Extinguished!

Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community

Flower shower

Reform begins at home

Pouring prosperity

The micro-watershed development project in Maharashtra has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of deserting the drought-prone …

Die hard

Up in arms over water

Farewell to fertilisers

The Netherlands' position as an agricultural superpower stands threatened... unless it shifts to eco-friendlier organic cultivation