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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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Sustainable access: Correcting the wrongs of lopsided development

'We cannot solve our problems with the same technology and lifestyles that created them.' - Albert Einstein

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.