Environment

The recent open streets initiative held in all seven sectors of HSR layout, Bengaluru, was a fantastic attempt to reduce pollution caused by motorized personal vehicles.

Marol police headquarters which had 96 acres of barren land now flaunts an orchard with 550 fruit bearing trees. Here is how the men in uniform became environment enthusiasts and made it possible in just a month.

India has been ranked third on US Green Building Council's annual ranking of top 10 countries for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Plastic consumption has been growing and has now reached an alarming scale. There is one man who is sending plastic back to where it came from.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests is going to introduce the Environmental Laws (Amendment) Bill to add violations like littering, throwing waste in the open, dumping electronic waste, defacement of public places and use of banned plastic bags to the non-cognizable criminal offense category.

Dhananjay Chakroborty, a taxi driver in Kolkata, has decided to use his green hands and transform his taxi into a miniature, mobile garden. A green crusader on the move.

Jadav "Molai" Payeng started planting bamboo saplings when he was 16 years old. Today he is 47 and lives in his own forest with tigers, rhinos and elephants!

Their mission was to rehabilitate 50 wells by the end of the year 2011, and they they did three times more than that by June, Read their story of how they brought the change.

Kaas is Maharashtra’s own Valley of Flowers. But unlike its namesake in the Himalayas which is accessible only after an arduous trek, Kaas is at an easily motorable distance from Mumbai and other places. It is this easy accessibility that’s the bane of Kaas. And it is in this context that the conservation efforts of a few dedicated people become extremely significant.

Jean Giono’s 1953 story, ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ tells the tale of a shepherd named Elzeard Bouffier, who planted trees all along an Alpine Valley to recreate a desolate forest. Whether Bouffier ever existed in reality or not, we may never know. But in Kasargod district of Kerala, there lives a man in flesh and blood who actually did this - a man who bought 32 acres of barren land and planted a forest there - all by himself! Read more