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.

Pride of Place

The transformation of a waste-picker's dark and ill-ventilated house into a bright, airy and safe home.

E-rickshaws in Jaipur: Freedom on three wheels

Housewives and young girls from slums in Jaipur are finding their freedom on three wheels

Open a door: No room for discrimination and communal profiling in West Bengal

(They) intervene in cases where people complain of discrimination and mobilize the locals to eliminate discrimination.

KSEB aims to generate 500 MW electricity from rooftop solar plants

Offer to install roof top panels at maximum number of residential and commercial buildings across the state (12 sq. meter area required for 1 kW).

An alternative school in rural Kerala is teaching tribal children life lessons

Gothrathalam school aims at preventing Dalit and Adivasi students from being isolated

Passive Solar Housing keeps people warm in icy Ladakh

The south face of a building needs to be all windows, as it gets maximum sunrise to sunset exposure in winters.

Speech and Hearing Impaired Individuals Run the Show at This Mumbai Restaurant!

Diners are required to simply mimic these hand-gestures to place their orders.

Chandigarh’s first organic market has grown and spread

“We know the farmers well enough to have faith in their produce and other allied processed products,”

Kitchen gardens start yielding returns for city residents

Residents in flats have started sharing their produce regularly forming WhatsApp groups and displaying pictures to attract buyers.