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Marudam Farm School: Where nature’s wisdom is the only teacher
The moment I entered Arun’s home in the Marudam Farm School, I knew I was in an unfamiliar but welcoming place. There was a joyful little bustle of a few people in the main room: Karthik was preparing...
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Despair and hope on the roof of the world
Hanle village and the Indus river in the Changthang plateau of the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. “It boasts the highest motorable road, the highest pass, and many other ‘highs’, but it is now...
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How to teach a girl to farm and transform her life
A participant in Landesa’s Security for Girls Through Land Project fetches water for her family’s garden. Photo cc Erika Schultz In the beautiful backwaters of West Bengal, one of the poorest parts of...
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How reinventing the wheel could help us deal with waste
The finished product gives no clue of its origins in waste It is only very recently in the history of industrial and product design and training that the consciousness of environmental sustainability...
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One of our states could turn 100% organic by end of 2015
In the early hours of a Friday in July, as the market town of Singtham in South Sikkim still sleeps, the hills overlooking it are astir. In the darkness, one sees flashes of light moving down the...
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This community program transformed people’s attitude toward the snow leopard
Ladakh is home to a sizable population of the snow leopard, which is one of the most endangered animals on the planet. Snow leopard is a beautiful and charismatic species. Yet people, who share habitat...
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