Recycling: Five cafés offering food in exchange for plastic

Local administrations have launched these cafés where rag-pickers and other residents can exchange plastic for [...]

Meera Chandran: This woman quit TCS to fight invasive plant species & restore degraded forests of the Western Ghats

So far, her non-profit Forest First Samithi has restored over 300 acres of land in [...]

Meghalaya: How this school dropout is preserving centuries-old living root bridges & empowering tribals

Through his Living Bridges Foundation, Morningstar Khongthaw is spreading awareness among the Khasis, Jaintia and [...]

This Kerala-based geologist is making edible & biodegradable cutlery to replace single-use plastic

His green startup Thooshan makes plates, bowls, and straws from natural wheat bran and rice [...]

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Neerja Palisetty’s Sutrakaar: Weaving paper yarn to make ecofriendly handicrafts

A small group of homemakers work with thin strips of discarded paper on a sunny [...]

Ecological empathy is the key to living in harmony with nature

Prof Shyam Sunder Jyani, associate professor of Sociology at the Government Dungar College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, [...]

Arunachal: How environmentalist Jibi Pulu is using ecotourism to turn Mishmi tribe conservationists

About 15 years back, working as a travel agent in Delhi, Jibi Pulu would ferry [...]

Panzath: Kashmir village where a 900-year-old spring cleaning festival has conserved traditional water bodies

Every year in the second week of May, men, women and children from half a [...]

10 Environment warriors fighting to protect our biodiversity

India is the world’s eighth most biodiverse region and is home to over 50,000 species [...]

People in this Kashmir town breathe cement dust; finding brides and grooms is difficult

Cement dust mixed with coal smoke hovers like clouds on the streets, and accumulates on [...]