India

 False predictions

For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to meet their ever-growing

Publication Date: 
30/05/1998
Down to Earth
7
19980531
0
Tags:
Forests, Crop Residues, Firewood, Biomass, Rural Habitat, Household Energy, India
India

 The answers within

Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India s rural communities

Publication Date: 
30/05/1998
Down to Earth
7
19980531
0
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Religious Beliefs, Rural Development, India
India

 All in a day s work

For women in the hill area of Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, life is not easy. They have to wear the skin off their knuckles to scrape together a living

Publication Date: 
14/05/1998
Down to Earth
6
19980515
0
Tags:
Kumaon Himalaya, Rural Habitat, Workers, Women, India
Biodiversity

 Compensation be damned

As the Laos government basks in the glory of building a model dam, thousands of villagers are unlikely to be compensated

Publication Date: 
14/05/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dams, Rural Habitat, Compensation, Laos
India

 Return to haven

A couple decided to give up the city life and experiment with a sustainable, agrarian lifestyle. Their efforts are bearing fruit after 15 years of toil

Publication Date: 
14/05/1998
Down to Earth
6
19980515
0
Tags:
Organic Farming, Rural Habitat, India, Gujarat, Sustainable Development
Transport

 Bridging gaps

A simple procedure could save many villages from being off during the monsoons

Publication Date: 
30/12/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Roads, Rural Technology, Developing Countries
India

 Light of life

Solar photovoltaic cells can help provide health care facilities in remote villages

Publication Date: 
30/08/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Health Care, Solar Cells, Rural Technology
Energy

 The great energy divide

IN RURAL areas, the use of collected biomass continues to burgeon because the availability of alternate sources of energy has increased more tardily than expected. The poorest of the rural poor are

Publication Date: 
Thursday, March 30, 1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Firewood, Biomass, Rural Habitat, Energy, Statistics
India

 The sun in your kitchen

Virtually inexhaustible solar energy could be the cheapest cooking fuel the world has known

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Solar Energy, Rural Habitat, Household Energy, Solar Cookers, India
India

 Killer stalks sanctuary

Anthrax has claimed three elephants in Jaldapara wildlife sanctuary in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, sparking fears that the infectious disease could wipe out animal life in the reserve. The

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Cattle, Rural Habitat, Infectious Diseases, Elephant, Sanctuaries, Diseases

Pages