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Energy
Discoms to hand-hold residents to boost rooftop solar power in Delhi
Community-based demand aggregation programmes, which will be expanded if the pilot projects are successful.
Energy
In Ahmedabad, women act to make slums climate-resilient, one house at a time
“We focus on the 4 prevalent stresses of the slums - heat stress, floods, vector-borne diseases, and water scarcity,”
Economics and Technologies
Reviving the Thar Desert’s Camel Culture
Protecting the camel is synonymous to protecting its habitat—large, open, desert areas used by villages as commons
Environment and Ecology
Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course
"This wetland should be declared amongst protected areas associated with Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary ....”
Environment and Ecology
The Indian school where students pay for lessons with plastic waste
Students collect over 10,000 pieces of plastic each month and transform them into eco-bricks for construction.
Environment and Ecology
A group of women protect Sindhudurg’s mangroves through ecotourism
Demonstrating a model of mangrove ecotourism, they have also encouraged other groups of women to adopt similar ventures.
Knowledge and Media
Kolkata Has The World’s First Tram Library
Passes by 30 educational institutions; book launches, book reading sessions and literature festivals are on the cards
Economics and Technologies
Goonj Initiative Helps Bihar Villagers Build Bamboo Bridge Amid Floods
With 250 pieces of bamboo sticks, the determined locals toiled for five days to build a 400-metre-long and 1.5-metre-wide bridge.
Economics and Technologies
Handmade collective goes online
... to help farmers, weavers, spinners and dyers, who are all part of the cotton value chain and were affected by the pandemic