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India’s Highways Have Quietly Planted 3.61 Crore Trees in Five Years — And They’re Being Built With Plastic Waste and Fly Ash
When people picture the environmental cost of India’s highway-building boom — and it has been a genuine boom, with the national highway network expanding at a pace few countries have matched — the image that usually comes to mind is trees felled, land cleared, dust and disruption. A new data release to Parliament offers the…
India Just Signed a Deal to Protect Rare Medicinal Plants — And Make Sure Tribal Communities Actually Benefit From It
For decades, the pattern in India’s biodiversity research has been depressingly familiar: scientists document a plant that tribal communities have used medicinally for generations, a company eventually commercialises a compound derived from it, and the community that held that knowledge for centuries sees little to none of the resulting value. It’s a version of what’s…
48 Lakh Indian Homes Now Have Free Solar Power. Here’s What It Took to Get There
Ask most people what India’s clean-energy story looks like and they’ll picture a solar park somewhere in Rajasthan or Gujarat — rows of panels stretching to the horizon, owned by a utility, feeding the grid from a distance. PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana is trying to write a different version of that story, one…
Andhra Pradesh’s Madanapalle Turned Its Dumpsite Into a Park. Here’s How the Whole Town Got Rebuilt Around Waste
There’s a small park in NVR Layout, in the temple town of Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, where the benches, the fencing and several of the sculptures are made from tyres nobody wanted anymore. It’s called the Waste-to-Art Park, and it sits on land that, until recently, nobody would have wanted to walk through at all —…
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Discover the best khus (vetiver) curtains for natural cooling this summer. These eco-friendly, zero-electricity cooling curtains are biodegradable, sustainable, and perfect for Indian homes.
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5 Eco-friendly Ganesha Idols We Can Buy Online for Ganesh Chaturthi 2024
Ganesh Chaturthi or “Vinayak Chaturthi” is one of the most sacred Hindu festivals. The festival celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha – the supreme God of wisdom and prosperity. The festival is marked with the installation of Ganesha clay idols privately in homes, or publicly on elaborate pandals (temporary stages) across the country. In this post,…
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