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Traditional House Restoration in Ladakh
This short video highlights the importance of using local and sustainable methods and materials for construction.
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This Unique Mud Hotel Harvests Rain, Has No ACs & Runs on the Sun
"In the future, even if the building is being demolished, I wanted to ensure that the materials would become one with the earth again,” says Lokesh, Founder of Hotel Sunyata
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Women Are Climate Leaders, Not Victims
Roofing with an affordable material that is stronger, cooler, waterproof, fireproof and made of recycled materials.
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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,”
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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.
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With dream dam farmers show what is possible
The old, unused bridge came as a blessing for the farmers - how?
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Thannal Hand Sculpted Home
Built in less than a month and a half.
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Rolling back the architect
"Each village community is different, so with each village the approach had to change."
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Dump the AC, Use These 3 Green Cooling Solutions While Building Your Home!
"Everything we build from now onwards has to be eco-sensitive, energy efficient, cost efficient, people-centred and value-based."