Environment

Biogas can help improve lives of people and communities and bring economic and environmental benefits. Here are five examples to illustrate its advantages:

Google recently declared that all its data centres and offices spread across the world will be switching to clean and green power from the year 2017.

Women of Madhubani district are using their creativity and tradition to prevent deforestation in the area by making beautiful paintings on trees!

A Bangalore-based start-up called A2 Naturals is revamping wedding traditions by promoting eco-friendly wedding invitations. The invites contain a 7.5 cm high ‘Seedball Ganesha’ idol, which is embedded with plant seeds!

Delhi-based environmentalist Rakesh Khatri, Founder of the NGO Eco Roots, teaches children to make artificial nests for birds.

Both in their 60s, the Khatris have successfully converted a police junkyard into a biodiversity garden, creating an example in beautiful living.

After working amidst a Dalit community in a village, Abhilash Salimath realised his true calling was to undo the damage that humans have done to this planet and make a difference in society. Read on to know more about this young entrepreneur with a futuristic vision.

After meeting the gardeners at Lodhi Garden and hearing their stories full of passion, love for the trees, and disappointment towards a few insensitive visitors, we finally found our next #DelhiHeroes characters to represent the gardener community.

Tarun Sebastian Nanda, a British Dutch Indian ecological engineer, will be conducting workshops in Delhi to train people in building floating wetlands: an eco-friendly, chemical free and low-maintenance method to make the water bodies pollutant-free.

16-year-old Sonali Sheokand from Haryana reported her father for stubble burning to the authorities out of concern for the environment. And was rewarded by State Pollution Control Board for her brave act.