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Rooftop rainwater harvesting at Chhattisgarh school reduces absenteeism
The villagers now have access to clean and safe drinking water, and are also not dealing as much with scarcity.
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Saving seeds
Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch members pledged to regenerate and widely share the enormously rich diversity of traditional crops and crop varietiesas a collective open-source heritage belonging to all
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Maharashtra Vikalp Sangam Concludes with Resolve to Promote Development Alternatives
... to promote practices and concepts that help achieve human well-being based on ecological sustainability and socio-economic equity and justice.
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सध्याच्या विकासाच्या पर्यायांचा पाठपुरावा करण्याचा निर्धार करून ‘महाराष्ट्र विकल्प संगम’ची सांगता (in Marathi)
कोणीही आपल्या मूलभूत गरजांपासून वंचित होणार नाही, व आपण सगळ्यांसाठी समता व न्याय मिळविण्याच्या दृष्टीने प्रयत्नशील असू.
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स्थानीय समुदायों की मदद से पहाड़ी तेंदुओं को बचाना (in Hindi)
अब उनके लिए पहाड़ी तेंदुआ कोई घृणित परजीवी नहीं बल्कि बहुमूल्य सम्पदा बन गया है।
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Indian conservationist wins Whitley award for saving elephants via SMS
Dr Ananda Kumar wins one of seven ‘Green Oscars’ for his system of reducing human-elephant conflict by tracking and texting elephants’ locations to people
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Protecting snow leopards with local communities
The snow leopard was considered to be a despised pest; now it is seen as a valuable tourism asset - by Norbu, as also by scores of other villagers from places where SLC-IT has worked.
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Being Down-to-Earth – from a Ladakh Diary
Work is divided between all the members of the group so that the concerned family is not overloaded with chores.
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Ladakh Diary: Changing Climate
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self.” - Buddha