India's coastlines hold immense potential for seaweed farming. Here’s how cultivating this 'blue carbon' resource can help protect our coasts, create jobs, and combat climate change.
A threat to your safety or any uncomfortable situation, this personal safety app lets you send SOS alerts to their loved ones and even set up a fake call, all with with just one voice command.
Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district has 400 villagers who have doubled their income by turning dry leaves, the source of their forest fires, into briquettes.
"Almost no one was doing anything constructive about the pine needles. We wanted to elevate this material and make something that had a potential for mass appeal."
This in turn prevents farmers from burning stubble after harvesting their crop. Having sold over 50,000 straws so far, he hopes to process 5 tonnes of waste to produce more. Here’s more about his process.
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District Magistrate Heera Lal helped motivate the people, who raised a district brought to its knees by drought all the way to the cusp of water self-sufficiency.