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Health and Hygiene
There is a Cure
Chittorgarh shows the way to affordable healthcare - generic drugs at cost price.
Food and Water
Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming
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.
Economics and Technologies
Troubled waters get hold of a saviour
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
Learning and Education
Communitisation of Education in Nagaland
Nagaland state's legal move to decentralise a part of the governance of education, health and power has had interesting results
Energy
Decentralised Water and Energy Conservation in Urban Setting
"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
Food and Water
Kerala Organic Farming Policy announced
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, on Monday, officially announced the Kerala State Organic Farming policy aimed at making farming sustainable and ensuring toxin-free food to public within 10 years.
Food and Water
Decentralising ration procurement in Odisha’s anganwadis
“Earlier there was delay in delivery of ration and rice near us. We could hardly give some lentils and rice to the children. However with money coming directly to our hands, we are trying to give best to the children,” says an anganwadi worker in Nuapada district.
Livelihoods
The key to the handloom crisis
By placing all components of textile production in the hands of weavers and artisans, the Malkha intervention seeks to make them autonomous owners of their means of livelihood.
Learning Un Learning Program
The program of Learning Un Learning will be at Adliabad from March 24th till 28th at Guruji s Kalashram. Learning un learning in short is a program to initiate deep enquiry in to the biological roots of cognition and to explore the cognitive damages inflicted by modern coercive education.