The merit factor

An Indian idea gets the world on its feet

Suddenly padyatras are being used as a new form of social mobilisation, all over the world

Phone jam

Citizens voice their concernfor a dwner environment

Water for slums

Cleaning up the air

Joint-efforts improve air quality of 10 cities in the US

Autumn of a patriarch

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, famous social reformer, turns 80

Managing biodiversity

Haul your own garbage

Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands-on is the best way to beat municipal overload

Putting trees before human life

On a single day in 1731, more than 350 persons -- 69 of them women -- sacrificed their lives to protect their trees from being felled in Jalnadi …

Mass movement against Dunkel draft

Forty-five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new …

The minister and the menace

A recent workshop on people's management of the Rajaji National Park brought out in full fury the debate whether the local communities are wiser …

Empowering communities

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Learning made easy

The Education Guarantee Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government is a new approach to encouraging rural children to attend school. And the scheme …

Communities to the rescue

Malaria is no longer an unmanageable disease in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe, thanks to a community-based project

Trim that FLAB

The bureaucrat is a generalist and gets to head departments that should be managed by specialists

Turning on the heat

The Green Party in France threatens to pull out of the government over the nuclear energy issue

Tying a green knot

In a small town in Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh, a marriage is also a tree-planting occasion

Reviving Kottayam

The healthy city project is, if nothing else, a pointer to the direction that Indian cities need to move in

Return of the green

A retired police officer takes up the task of restoring greenery in a remote Naga village

ABC of environment education

The North's experiences in environment education are not useful for the South

Rising against liquor

Time to act together

The Delhi government tries to involve resident's associations in managing civic amenities

Planter of Indore

A zoology professor motivates people to plant trees in memory of the deceased

Colombia

Stifling civil society

Two cases of government apathy towards volunteers and activists in Goa