Environment

The program is meant to focus on scaling innovations for smart cities, cleantech, agri-tech, life sciences, and education.

Treepedia's primary objective is to help farmers with the best-suited plantation techniques and post-plantation care. The app also wants them to know about the plant species that are native to particular areas of Tamil Nadu and guide them into planting more of these, thus decreasing the number of exotic species grown in the state.

From a Rs 10 device that allows women to avoid UTI by standing and peeing, to the machine that could filter 90,000 litres of water in six months without electricity, here are our top ten picks for 2018’s coolest Indian inventions!

She is currently working on a project called Wildseve which has helped over 7000 families file wildlife-compensation claims and receiving their rightful benefits.

Till date the school has saved over 4000 trees, 59 lakh liters of water, one-month's electricity to over 10000 households and helped over 7000 underprivileged kids by recycling 2 lakh kgs of newspapers! #Education #GreenIndia

They are not the heroes we deserve, but the ones we need, especially at a time when our insatiable needs are eradicating almost all large forms of life on the planet.

Stepping up its own efforts for a sustainable future, India is making it very clear that world needs to do much more than what they are currently committed to doing. #GreenIndia

A native of Ekalkhori village near Jodhpur, Ranaram Bishnoi has been defying his age for decades years now, in his crusade to turn the barren desert adjoining his village totally green.

The initiative focuses on two main categories—the first being waste segregation and composting and the second, solar power generation and rainwater harvesting.

ERVIS, Kazi’s first ever innovation, is a prototype ocean cleaner ship that can suck out plastic from the surface of the ocean.