Transforming a Karachi slum into a tidy suburb
The success of various programmes initiated under a pilot project in Orangi, a Karachi slum, has inspired its leader to predict the squatter …
The grapes of growth
After setting the trend of grape cultivation in Sangli district, Ganapathyrao Mhetre is all set to introduce organic farming techniques
A dying tradition
Dearth of knowledge has frustrated attempts to revive a traditional but viable method of making iron.
Solutions forever
Dharamitra, a Wardha-based organisation, has been working on many projects and, with active participation of the local people, is ensuring a …
Under the umbrella
A residential school in Chamtagora has relieved the anxieties of migrant workers native to the area, who spend most of the year away from their …
A never-ending battle
After four years and innumerable trips to courts of justice, Kodaikanal's skyline may not look very different. But for the Palani Hills …
Beyond backwardness
Villagers in Bidar have taken up the cudgels against industrialists and lax state officials responsible for turning this backward district into …
Ungreening the revolution
A programme initiated with much drum-beating, the green revolution has not just backfired but even eroded traditional systems of farming. Farmers …
Born again
The dense Melaghar forests in Tripura that were destroyed during the Bangladesh war have been revived through the efforts of the Acharya Jagdish …
A village betrayed
The people of Salehpur get a raw deal from the forest department of Haryana in return for the services rendered by them
Dirty RIVER blues
Children of Delhi rediscover Yamuna. And see how everything is being done to reduce it to a drain
Emerging alternatives
A novel project in Kerala tries to introduce a sanitation technology that promises a cleaner and healthier environment
Silk route to success
With the launch of a sericulture project in Vidisha, a district in Madhya Pradesh, the lifestyle of the rural women undergoes a metamorphosis
Cooling Earth
Municipalities in the Netherlands are exerting pressure on the national government to reduce carbon dioxide emission by half by AD 2010
The pitfalls of protection
To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good …
Saving to survive
Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans
A tradition that got washed away
For more than a century, the people of Motepur used to build an earthen dam on the Punpun river every two years. Today, wage labour has replaced …
Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles
Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed …
Helping women irks men in Haryana district
A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.
Gandhian scheme provides rural health care
A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.
Tribals solve problems through self - reliance
The Budakattu Krishikara Sangha, with its emphasis on people-oriented strategies, has improved tremendously the lot of the tribals in and around …
A school with an ecological curriculum
For 45 years, a school in Kausani has been inculcating ecological consciousness in hill women
From reservations to recognition
Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda.…
Taking the magic out of miracles
Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do
Value addition
A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.