A group of local village women attended the Barefoot College Parabolic Solar Cooker workshop, and then started a cooperative to cut, weld, build and use more of these themselves.

Organic food is poised to take deeper root in urban India. A great diversity of organic initiatives exists in…

Young investors provide working capital to women entrepreneurs in rural India through an online social lending platform.

“If a farmer has two punnai trees on his land, he can reduce the diesel cost considerably. I run the motor for about five months using the oil during summer,” says a farmer who uses oil extracted from the seeds of that tree to run a diesel pump for irrigation in summer months.

Over the last decade Khonoma, a village near Kohima in northeastern India, inhabited by the Angami, one of the indigenous or tribal people of the state of Nagaland, has demonstrated a resolute will to conserve biodiversity and wildlife.

The book Wrong Theory by Girish Abhyankar is an attempt at a unified theory addressing questions on appropriateness and cost of technology and related issues, the emerging philosophical aspects concerning human life and, finally, a case-study.

This is the story of how a local farmers' market was born in an arid corner of Rayalseema...

To fight the threat of infectious diseases like diarrhea, Grampari has launched an innovative program for rural children, teaching them how to make hand washing a habit by putting themin charge and making it hands-on and fun!

"Vikalp Sangam bahut achchha idea hai, iske saath Sankalp bhi jod deejiye"/ "Alternatives Confluence is a great idea, add Commitment to it"