A retired Engineer from Bengaluru, Nataraja Upadhya has created an urban jungle on his terrace with many trees, and lots of butterflies and birds. Bengaluru is a concrete jungle now. Waiting for a hot summer,…

Environmental scientists visited and recorded the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Ludhiana and found it 275. But the AQI in the Office of Rohit Mehra at the India Revenues Service (IRS), was just 78! Read…

When we, the Good Shepherd Sisters, decided to build our new Provincialate in 2018, in Nagpur, I dreamt of a chapel which would reflect emerging spirituality. I wanted it to embrace the Universe and its…

Gujarat Woman Revives 675 Water bodies to solve Water Crisis of 5000 families in Kutch. On World Water Day (22nd March), Gazala Paul, founder of Ahmedabad-based NGO ‘Samerth’, talked about how she helped 97 villages…

Farmers of Yethadka, near Kasaragod, Kerala, pool money to build 16 temporary check dams on tributaries of the Chandragiri River, with available resources. An 11-metre high granite wall with water to the brim, they call…

Frustrated by the erratic power supply, Gitaram Kadam built a windmill and a solar power plant in Maharashtra, to help irrigate farmlands in his village.  [auth] He bought a 12-acre land in the village to…

Kerala Woman Climbs Coconut Trees to Support Her Family [auth] The lockdown forced Sreedevi Gopalan, 25, a final year B.Ed student to return home in Malappuram, Kerala. Her father has been a coconut tree climber…

In late 2016, farmers of Khaparkheda village in MP were surprised (or perhaps shocked) to see the farm of Laxmi Parate produce a high-quality surplus harvest of tomatoes, earning her a bumper profit. A few…