Latest Stories
Environment and Ecology
Harvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India
Permaculture farms offer food throughout the year, reduce waste and pests and keep the soil healthy and productive.
Learning and Education
Sonam Wangcuk – winner of Magsaysay award
It’s not a conventional school, but a place to pursue practical, environmental, social and traditional knowledge, values and skills.
Environment and Ecology
Wetlands of Tamil Nadu soon to have protected status
Through notifying 100 wetlands as “priority wetlands”, the state’s choking urban wetlands may finally breathe.
Economics and Technologies
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.
Environment and Ecology
Youth drive revival of traditional rice varieties in West Bengal
“Traditional rice cultivars are inherently endowed with higher nutritional value than their chemically grown counterparts.”
Environment and Ecology
Ducks wade through paddy fields to bump up profits
"... considering our low cost/zero cost inputs in comparison to the chemically grown rice, our profits per bigha are higher,”
Learning and Education
University of Ingenuity
... training small farmers to adopt natural resources for sustainable livestock farming, fishery and crop husbandry, and that too, free of cost.
Livelihoods
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.
Livelihoods
Unheard Echoes: How A Bangalore Restaurant Is Unique With Its Differently-Abled Staff
“They are happy to work amidst a set of people they can relate to. ... they have a lot of fun and mingle with each like members of a family.”