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India’s unseen foods
The surprise that people would throw away or not notice edible, tasty and nutritious plants echoes from Punjab to Bihar to Assam, if you talk to local foragers.
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The Garden of My Childhood
We can and must conserve our natural legacies, and become the guardians of so many values, so many little sovereignties and stolen afternoons ...
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SayTrees is making Bangalore Smile by giving it a new green cover
SayTrees has helped Bangalore reclaim some of its natural beauty by planting saplings around 14 lakes, and at several other locations.
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Harley Davidson and the art of lake maintenance
On every Sunday a group of citizens living around the Jakkur Lake assemble, discuss, carry out bird and reptile censuses, clean, and design and implement ways to manage the lake.
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Sustainable access: Correcting the wrongs of lopsided development
'We cannot solve our problems with the same technology and lifestyles that created them.' - Albert Einstein
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Local Alternatives to Globalized Development
Local Bites interviews scholar/activist, Ashish Kothari about his book, Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India, co-authored by Aseem Shrivastava.