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‘India should lead way in clean cook stoves’

Experts draw attention to high child mortality and morbidity among women and children because of inefficient cook stoves

A tale of two villages beguiled by JRY

The panchayats of Sonrai in Uttar Pradesh and Palana in Rajasthan share a Jawahar Rozgar Yojana experience. Both ignored the water needs of the …

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Southward bound

A Green ban

Kanchanpur has some unusual people: drunk men and green women. Ignored and uncared for by the men, the region's lands were barren. Then, the …

Campaign

Friends for a cause

Moving mountains

Learning to live with noise pollution

The fruits of people's power

A small village has proved that people's management of forests can bring prosperity

Green is a common word

The commons have gone green in some villages in the Tehri Garhwal district, with the people coming together to afforest an invaluable legacy

Harvests of change

Women and children are among the happiest

Fenced out of a livelihood

The traditional craft of wooden toy making in Sawai Madhopur near the Ranthambore tiger reserve is dying out because of changed consumer …

Fulfilling labour

Parched water tanks in Kanyakumari come alive as locals undertake the revival programme

Arresting 'axe'tion

Dwindling forests in a Rajasthan sanctuary get a fresh lease of life with villagers effectively banning the use of axe

Water guardians

The fourth estate joins hand with civil society to check water pollution

Decentralising supply

Finding it difficult to cope with frequently interrupted and extremely poor quality of water supplied by the government, a Haryana village …

Insensitivity at its best

Women to the fore

Dial tol-free

Treading a different path

Making of an activist

How an ordinary individual helps improve the environment

The Green Brigade

Locals get firm