Build local: This architect creates sustainable & sturdy homes without using cement or steel

In a country obsessed with cement and steel for building construction, a Mumbai-based architect has [...]

Daughter, water & trees: How this mantra made Piplantri a model village of India

Losing a young child is devastating for parents; it’s a loss that lasts a lifetime. [...]

How Chennai’s Walk for Plastic is recycling waste to fund education of underprivileged children

For 28-year-old Gowtham B, art and social responsibility go hand-in-hand, so much that most of [...]

Bengaluru engineer revives 11 dead lakes, targets to rejuvenate 45 water bodies by 2025

In a sweltering April of 2017, Anand Malligavad was hard at work, removing debris and [...]

Snehakunja: Preserving biodiversity through empowerment of tribals in Western Ghats of Karnataka

For ages, women in Kalagade-Kanchigadde, a remote village in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, had [...]

Gulmeher: Delhi’s social enterprise turns women ragpickers into artisans; sells ecofriendly products globally

Mehrun Khatun does not remember when she first began rummaging through garbage to collect recyclable [...]

Kutch: Mangrove loss threatens Kharai swimming camel; hurts livelihood of pastoralists

Bhikabhai Rabari is the fifth generation camel breeder in his semi-nomadic family. Living in the [...]

West Bengal’s Gaighata: Where arsenic toxicity in livestock is now adding to poison in human bodies

Biswajit Das, a 55-year-old farmer from Sutia (also Shutia) village in West Bengal’s Gaighata block, [...]

Peoli: NID grads’ slow fashion brand hand spins success story with natural yarns; empowers Uttarakhand women

Two graduates from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, are combining the spinning and [...]

In pictures: India’s 10 Blue Flag beaches that stand out for sustainability, safety & accessibility

India is home to ten beaches with Blue Flag certification, a global eco-level tag given [...]