Food and Water
Keepers of the seeds

Like other women have done for generations in Rajasthan, Chamnibai Meena has been saving local seeds and preserving indigenous knowledge

Environment and Ecology
Food fest to revive tribal cuisine

Group organises 'wild food festival' at Bhimashankar to preserve culinary art, get young ones to take pride in dishes

Economics and Technologies
Setting right water woes

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

Environment and Ecology
The nature of belief (in Lepcha language)

As hunger for growth and energy threatens a community of nature worshippers, they point to a different path towards development

Economics and Technologies
Paaduks: Shoes with soul

Inspired by an article that spoke of the possibility of using waste tyres as soles for shoes, the team dove into exploring this idea

Food and Water
Non-Bt variety of cotton escapes deadly Whitefly infestation in Punjab

In the other plot, a non-Bt variety of cotton too was far less affected by whitefly

Energy
How One School became an Electricity Supplier

"School buildings can adopt rooftop solar systems to meet their own electricity needs and to augment the grid supply"

Food and Water
Back to the earth, the hard way

The Internal Control System used by the Organic Mission for certification brings farmers’ holdings on a village or block level into collectives so they can avoid seepages between farms.

Economics and Technologies
Paper environments: Using waste to create sensitive furniture

Bhave’s products build in a level of sensitivity and softness - in the materials he uses, as also in their approach to production.