Return of the woods

Two decades of toil have given back to Seed village in Udaipur a forest that villagers felt had been destroyed forever

A few good men

Seven months of hard work and sheer dedication has made Pithoragarh free from polythene bags

Power of the people

As megacities across the world boom, simple pleasures of life like fresh air and clean water have been lost. Initially, governments tried to …

River Parliament

Messiahs to rural folk

A few individuals are trying to bring about changes at the grassroots level through dedicated and sustained work

Terms of un-endearment

What should be the new terms of engagement?

Moses of Longleng

How the efforts of an individual brought prosperity to a remote town in the Northeast

GREEN WARRIOR

Changing colours

After blindly destroying much of their forest cover, people in Anantapur district attempt to reclaim their barren lands

Cities of joy

Better late than never. Germany has initiated the Agenda 21 process across the country. Already nine per cent of all municipalities have plans …

Neemi's water conference

Jal biradari launches movement to drought-proof villages

Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…

Recession is elsewhere

Restoring the past

A civil engineer revives an age-old system of farmers managing irrigation tanks in Tamil Nadu

Blood on the beach

Fisherfolk on the coast of Saurashtra kill whale sharks to make a living. If this is replaced by an ecotourism scheme the people and the fish …

Eco-wisdom

Two Tamil Nadu Villages protect their natural wealth and prosper

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

Fishing in troubled waters

People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada's biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural …

Jharkhand tribals build their own government homes

Managing a crisis

People of the Arwari basin in Alwar, take proactive measures to battle drought

The road ahead

India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of …

For the love of air

International experts meet to develop a blueprint for future action to improve air quality in Delhi

A quiet Revolution

Six years ago, the Andhra Pradesh government decided to manage forests jointly with the people. This effort is breaking new ground in Naxalite-…

Creating a wonderland

In the barren wildness of the savannahs in Colombia, a visionary establishes an extraordinary community

TEARS FOR CROCODILES