Environment

Neha Bagoria from Mumbai has founded Tapu Sustainable Solutions and launched a device named EcoTrapIn that converts urinals into odourless and waterless ones.

N Ramakrishnan of Basaveshwaranagar has set up horticulture, solar power units, composting systems and rainwater harvesting in his home, while also influencing 4,000 people to go green.

Naren Handsa is a Santhali folk singer from West Bengal, who offers free education to underprivileged children, has adopted 30 orphans, and is working to convert barren lands into mini forests through his NGO Sido Kanhu Mission Foundation

The Sukhet project is the brainchild of Dr Ramesh Chandra Srivastava, vice-chancellor RPAU, a vermicompost evangelist who is on a mission to popularise it in the state of Bihar.

A native of Durgapur, Sumita Banerjee moved to Kolkata a few decades ago. A former school teacher, she found her calling as a green activist when she noticed a blatant disregard for the well-being of Kolkata's second-largest water body, Rabindra Sarovar.

In Odisha's Berhampur district, school teacher Sudhir Rout defied the destruction caused by frequent cyclones for 16 long years to script a stunning success story of environmental conservation

Vikhroli today has 16 mangrove species, 208 bird species, and a thriving biodiversity, thanks to the vision of one man.

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Dr Varad Giri is a herpetologist who has created hundreds of citizen scientists by helping them discover new species of amphibians and reptiles

Former Mumbai resident, George Remedios is creating food forests with saplings of papayas, guava, pomegranates, bananas, mangoes, drumsticks and more, while also helping communities like the tribals of Yeoor hills benefit from the harvest.