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.

Sherdukpen: finding a recipe to fit the future

Enthusiastic bands of young people from this small tribal community in Arunachal Pradesh are trying to ind their future to their traditional roots

Rooftop farmers reap rich harvests

These urban farmers educate people about the benefits of organic farming and also do their bit to make the city a cleaner, greener place to live.

Sunny balconies and hanging gardens in Goa

Terrace kitchen gardens are slowly making their mark here.

WHAT IS LIVING AND WHAT IS DYING IN THE LIVING ROOT BRIDGES?

Can the Living Architecture (bio-engineering achievements) of the Khasis and Jaintias be transplanted to other areas...?

Solar Panels and Solidarity

The adivasi women of Edamalakudi, Kerala’s remotest panchayat, have helped light up their villages with solar power!

Setting right water woes

Valvemen send direct alerts through an interactive voice response system about when the water valves are opening.

Wild About Plants

My strongest childhood memory is tinted green ... big spreads of bamboo and banana groves, in the sprawling greens of rice fields ... big thatch roofs dominated by green pumpkin creepers ...

Haryana gets its first village secretariat in Jind

Each village of Haryana will soon have its own secretariat which will ensure people get better access to various government schemes.

Cloth as currency – How Goonj is creating a parallel cashless economy

Using clothing, furniture, food-grains, and such, Goonj is helping rural communities develop their own infrastructure through cashless transactions.