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Environment and Ecology
Todas: The Naturalistic People
The values these people espouse are linked to the fact that their sacred homeland is now at the heart of India’s very first biosphere reserve.
Livelihoods
Collaborative Training for Telangana Women Weavers
As a first step, women weavers will directly interact with buyers and showcase their handloom products in Hyderabad on March 30 and 31, 2018
Food and Water
Taking firm root: A cooperative success story off Salem
Member-farmers do not cultivate the same crop; the produce is purchased by the society; and farmers are debt-free.
Very Much on the Map: the Timbaktu Collective
Very Much on the Map: the Timbaktu Collective. Kalpavriksh Pune, Maharashtra.
Environment and Ecology
With Sickle and Stick They Saved a Forest
A story of transformation of village women into an unwavering collective which can stand for its rights and for values they cherish.
Energy
Surat becomes first district to have 100% solar powered health centres
All 52 PHCs in the district are now solar-powered. This will bring down the electricity bill by 40 percent, also helping fight global warming.
Environment and Ecology
Sunder Nursery in full bloom
Spaces for families to enjoy a picnic, soak in some culture at the amphitheatre, marvel at the flora and fauna and use for exercise.
Economics and Technologies
Meet the man who is digitally conserving and restoring the Ajanta caves
The paintings in the 2000-year-old Ajanta Caves are in a precarious state and can’t be fully restored. But there is an attempt to restore them digitally
Food and Water
Floating gardens for the landless
Bamboo beds with layers of dried water hyacinth, silt, vermicompost and farm yard manure, dry leaves of leguminous plants, etc. float on the water bodies.