Heat waves and action plans: How does India fare?
TerraGreen
As climate-induced heat waves are on the rise, affecting people's health and livelihood, and India's economoy, there's a need to implement heat action plans.
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Where waste ‘lights up’ villages
Village SquareWhile waste disposal is a huge problem – moved from neighbourhoods to dump yards – villages in Tamil Nadu are turning their wet waste into biogas to generate electricity.
Can small wind turbines contribute to large renewable goals?
Mongabay IndiaIndia has ambitious renewable energy targets and to achieve this, the country is relying on large-scale wind and solar projects. However, small wind (SW) turbines and small wind-solar (SWS) hybrids have the potential to meet energy needs through grid-connected and off-grid systems.
How crowdfunding can fill the finance gap for farmers to go solar
IndiaSpendCrowdfinanced loans are a viable solution for enabling farmers to get solar-powered pumps, which bring long term savings on electricity & diesel costs, facilitate sustainable farming and ultimately reduce farm power subsidy bills, say experts'
'We will bring change': the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system
The GuardianThe Casteless Collective are repurposing the bawdy gaana style to confront class conflict – and call out everything from corruption to violence against women
Oil palm in Andhra Pradesh: prosperity at what cost?
China DialogueMany farmers who have switched to oil palms are making more money, but the water table beneath them is falling dangerously
A win-win-win model: urban investors finance rural agriculture
Rural 21A new business model that could catch on – with their company “I Support Farming”, two brothers from South India’s Chennai are bringing investors from the city together with farmers who lack capital for necessary investments. The investors bear the risk, while the profits are shared.
India’s women hawkers and platform vendors are left bereft of livelihood during lockdown
Women's Media CenterSelling flowers, vegetables, fish and the like on thoroughfares or walking from street to street with their headload of wares, women hawkers’ livelihood was severely affected by the pandemic-induced lockdown.
Tharuvaikulam’s palmyra climbers turn sustainable fishers
Mongaybay IndiaA drought that saw palmyra trees wilting and the ban on toddy tapping in 1987 made the people of Tharuvaikulam village in Thoothukudi district switch to fishing. The villagers decided to adopt sustainable fishing practices, after realising that trawl nets were destroying the corals that were homes to the fish.
