Community Rights of Jamguda were recognized - rights such as those to manage the forest, to collect and sell minor forest produce, etc. - in 2010.

The malkha process explores an alternative to the present situation where both farmers and weavers are dependent on spinning mills, a way in which both farmers and weavers could benefit from each other, and in which spinning could also become a rural occupation. It is the missing link in a fully rural cotton textile industry using local raw material and local skills. Not only would it create more employment, the links between farming and local production would strengthen rural society both socially and politically.

Vijay Jardhari of the Beej Bachao Andolan has been conserving and growing a huge variety of traditional crops, crucial for the future of agriculture and food security.

The festival of colours – Holi – is round the corner, and we need safe, plant-based colours. Such colours are being offered by Maitri, Sirsi, and by Ecoexist, Pune

Chittorgarh shows the way to affordable healthcare - generic drugs at cost price.

Veteran farmer Bhaskar Save's organic farm yields more than any farm using chemicals, going by any criteria including total quantity, nutritional quality, taste, biological diversity, ecological sustainability, water conservation, energy efficiency, and economic profitability.

A river is not a mere water source, but an entire ecosystem, with rich flora and fauna along its course and on the riverbed. So, a project undertaken by the Atholi panchayat, as part of its efforts to protect the Korapuzha, aims at protecting the river in its entirety

Nagaland state's legal move to decentralise a part of the governance of education, health and power has had interesting results

"We decided to live in a house that would have a minimal ecological footprint so as to limit the damage to the environment. So we designed a house that had waste treatment and recycling and recharge and energy saving properties...", says Rahul Banerjee