Master plan for anarchy

The judgement to relocate polluting factories in Delhi leaves several questions unanswered. Will the powers-who-be work to turn good intentions …

Cleanup time

A campaign by an organisation to clean up the polluted lakes of Udaipur has finally paid off. The Rajasthan High Court clamps down on erring …

Tamil Nadu readies pond plan

My god v your resource

Recent Supreme Court order in Vedanta case holds hope for tribal community life

A close hard look

Malaria is easy to check. Just do not let mosquitoes breed. This is the essence of the bioenvironmental way to control such tiny big disease …

Charting a new course

A unique drinking water project meets a long-standing demand

Community forest management THE NEPALESE EXPERIENCE

Nepal government decided to hand over certain forest areas to rural communities.

Why only panchayats?

Other local associations can also manage watersheds effectively

Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

Tribal women in Chattisgarh beat the poverty trap with fortunes from traditional medicines

Tree is not timber

What it takes to clean a river

It is the tale of two European rivers. The Rhine and the Danube. No river system in the world has a density of industrial agglomerations …

Water revolution

It is not easy to initiate a movement for water conservation in the face of drought. But the Madhya Pradesh government pushed forward in all the …

Changing gears

Agents of change

Gramdoots, or village volunteers, mobilise people to get government machinery moving

Plastic Unlimited

New rules to restrict the use of plastic in India may end up promoting the polymer industry

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …

Forestland benefits

Under the Lok Vaniki scheme, a farmer can extract benefits from his land by selling its produce, including timber

Pitching in for a pond

The government and people of Madhya Pradesh have joined hands in their fight against drought through various jan sahyog programmes

Call of the wild

A unique festival epitomises efforts for conservation of Assam rainforests which have been lying in a state of neglect for decades

Rajasthan mine workers form cooperatives

Tragopan country

Message in a baton

The decades after Independence saw rampant destruction of trees. This was followed by years of drought. It was then that the villagers realised …

Rajasthan village goes beyond caste, fights for water resources

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves