Environment and Ecology

Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits

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This section relates to initiatives that promote the principles of ecological integrity and limits. These are initiatives which envision models of decentralized conservation of land, water and biodiversity, based on a respect for both local and modern knowledge, and considering environment as an integral part of life and work. It also highlight attempts at linking livelihoods to ecological regeneration and restoration at local and landscape level. It will feature innovative attempts to deal with problems of pollution and waste. Overall, this section will try to work towards an understanding of the ecosystem which includes sociological, historical and geographical considerations while deciding on the path that local urban/ rural communities and the larger society take towards well-being.

शहर में प्रकृति के करीब जीवन (in Hindi)

शहर में भी कम खर्च में बिजली और पानी का प्रबंध सुचारु रूप से किया जा सकता है

Bargur buffaloes from Erode recognised as specific breed

Adapted for grazing in the hilly terrain, the small Bargur cattle is mainly reared for milk and manure

Nila – A river and its relationships

A revival of traditional arts and crafts along the River Bharathapuzha in Kerala

Darjeeling Himalayas gets a people-centric early warning system for landslides

All it takes for the system to work is a tipping bucket rain gauge, a rainfall threshold chart, whistle, mobile messenger and a billboard.

आदिवासियों की हरियाली यात्रा (IN HINDI)

हरियाली बढ़ेगी, कुपोषण दूर होगा, जैव विविधता बचेगी और पर्यावरण भी बचेगा।

Delhi’s social Butterflies: Why the city’s citizen scientists are counting butterflies in crowded residential areas

They flutter like eyelashes, dip like fish, or float languidly in an undulating rhythm that is mesmerising to watch, like ripples on a lake.

We are what we eat!

“The uncultivated food plants are voluntary plants. The rural poor who understand their benefits the best refuse to call them 'weeds'”

Tech that saves 35 percent of water to grow paddy

Can water consumption for cultivating paddy, as also emission of greenhouse gases, be reduced in 15 districts of Telangana?

Gutter gas fueled tea boosts chaiwala’s livelihood

Can a Chai stall be run with Zero expenditure on Energy?