Settlements and Transport

Human settlements with sustainability, equity, and fulfillment. Sustainable, equitable means including non-motorised and public transport

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This features both rural and urban areas, and the search to make human settlements sustainable, equitable, and fulfilling places to live and work in. This includes: sustainable architecture, localized generation of basic infrastructural, water and energy needs, urban biodiversity conservation, waste/garbage minimisation and recycling, efficiency and frugality in the use of these basics, the defense and revival of common and open spaces, participatory budgeting and planning of settlements.

We would also like to include stories of sustainable, equitable means of transport that can be accessed by all and that do not create ecological and social problems as is the case with a focus on privatized motorized transport. Stories on the promotion of public transport, cycling, walking, human/animal powered and other forms of ecologically sustainable and equitable transportation, planning for equitable access, reclaiming the roads and parking lots for public use, and so on, are featured.

Expensive, elitist models that may be ecologically sustainable but are not relevant for most people, are likely to be avoided here.

After cyclone Fani, women in a migrant fishing community start resilience fund

A go-to fund created by women to take care of small expenses and activities linked to pressing needs that follow disasters.

Chemistry Nobel Prize has a rural Odisha connection

The Maligaon Solar Micro-Grid is the first instance where a village level electricity generation unit has used Lithium Ferro-Phosphate batteries.

In Gorakhpur, Citizens Use Nature to Prevent Floods

Better agricultural productivity and livelihoods meant that farmers would not feel pressured to sell their land to developers.

Low-cost housing needs dignity, says Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi

“If you empower people then what happens is that it creates incentives for people that are self-generated. "

This Kolhapur Man Runs An Organic Store Which Doesn’t Create Any Waste

"... the oils are wood-pressed, flours and powders are stone-ground, and seeds are of the heirloom variety.”

The story behind Ecoindian’s zero-waste grocery store in Chennai

Redesigning lifestyles so that all products are reused.

Hyderabad gets its first zero waste grocery store

No to Plastic! So where to have your rice, pulses, oils, cleaners, etc. packed only in paper covers, cloth bags and containers?

The Makeshift Huts – Indigenous Agro-pastoral Communities

Simple structure, used for shelter from weather and protection from wild animals, and also to store food. The hearth is under the elevated floor.

Thannal Hand Sculpted Home

Built in less than a month and a half.