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.

Gurgaon Residents Have a New Weekend Hobby: Grow Their Own Vegetables on Land Leased from the Govt

"... growing one’s own vegetables is the best way to eat healthy”

Motorcycle Ambulance In Chhattisgarh Has Saved Over 200 Lives In Remote Villages Of Bastar

The motorcycle-ambulance has successfully ferried over 300 patients to the hospitals from “adverse areas”, of whom 80 per cent are pregnant women.

On a sustainable path

Community efforts led by Shivaji Kagnekar have transformed the lives and landscapes in 26 villages of Belagavi district of Karnataka

जलभूमि बचाने का संघर्ष (in Hindi)

भेरियों में शहर के मैले पानी को सूरज की रोशनी से शुद्ध कर मछलियों, सब्जियों और धान की खेती होती है।

Behind the beautiful forevers

The difference it can make for women in slums to have safe, clean sanitation facilities, the time it can free up for them, the freedom it gives them.

Dancing away from drugs

“Children who are addicted to correction fluid and alcohol fall while dancing, but it is my job to make them stand again,” he says.

Ensure Irrigation Water for 15,000 Villagers

When the irrigation lake developed a breach, poor farmers in Surendranagar (Gujarat) took it upon themselves to save it.

Conservation: Lessons from ancient India

Ecologically safe engineering marvels of water conservation have existed in India for nearly 1,500 years, including bawaris

Kids in India Are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums

A new project aims to give young Indians a voice in the city-development process.