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The Honeycomb Effect: Small Causes, Small Changes – Big Impact [Part 2]
Continuing our changemakers series (read Part 1), here we present to you a very diverse bunch of people – an apartment owner who composts her kitchen waste, village women who stitch washable sanitary...
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Dharavi Diary – From Story Telling To Slum Innovation
Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world, has managed to carve out a unique identity for itself. The industrious residents of the slum have taken to recycling waste from across the country in...
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Event Alert: Eco-Productive Cities, A Three-Day Conference at Auroville
Eco-Productive Cities A three-day conference 5th to 7th September 2013 at Auroville (near Puducherry), India Registration Fees: Rs.9500 Auroville Green Practices, a part of Auroville, an international...
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Community Catalysts – Harnessing The Power Of Gated Communities
Change is possible only if each of us accepts our responsibilities and it gets even better when your entire community is willing to support and stand by you. The idea of harnessing the power of gated...
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A Union That Accords Dignity And Safety In Numbers To Women Waste Pickers
Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP), a union of scrap collectors started by Dr Baba Adhav in 1993, has now become a force much larger than just a collection of waste pickers, mostly women. It...
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Citizens Come Together To Make Their Locality And Environment Clean
It can be seen from the examples below that when residents and stakeholders in a community come together to solve an issue, the results are not only positive, but also long-lasting. Here we learn of...
View ArticleWaste Warrior Jodie Underhill – Cleaning The Mountains And Now The Plains!
We have written about Jodie Underhill and the wonderful work she and her team of volunteers is doing in some of the most crowded pilgrimage trails along the Himalayas to keep them free of garbage,...
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That Water Bottle You Discarded Is Being Recycled By Lakshmi In A Mumbai Slum...
Ever wondered what happens to all your trash plastic once it is picked from your home? Apart from its consumption by animals and water bodies, of course. It is interesting to know how what goes around...
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These Women Walk And Talk Non-Stop So They Can Improve Hygiene And Sanitation...
Meet the women who strongly believe that there is a spirit of ownership among villagers that can be tapped into by someone within their own community. And to honour this belief, they walk for miles...
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Revolutionary Technology That Can Convert Plastic Waste Into Petrol And...
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun have invented a technology that can convert plastic waste into high-grade petrol, diesel or aromatics. What’s more, this new fuel will cost...
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YOUR VIEW: Here Is How You Can Create A Tiny Organic Farm On Your Terrace
In the YOUR VIEW section, we highlight some of the most pertinent and interesting letters and opinions sent to us by our readers. Have something to say? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com with...
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How This Waste Collector In Bengaluru Is Making Entrepreneurs Out Of Ragpickers
Using technology and people management skills, read how Mansoor is making waste collection a well organized profession. Thanks to his efforts, Bengaluru now sees ragpickers with ID cards, fresh...
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All It Took Was 2 Bins And 1 Bag For This Apartment Complex To Manage Waste...
Several women from an apartment complex in Bangalore came together and enabled the entire community to follow an effective waste management model. Here’s how they made it possible. The ladies in the...
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This 24 Year Old Works in a Hotel so he can Support his Ideas for Saving...
Manjunath not only works in the hotel but also educates them about food waste management, recycling and much more. Here’s all you need to know about this young changemaker and how you can help him save...
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Two High School Boys Had a Casual Chat. Now Hundreds of Underprivileged Kids...
A casual conversation which flirted with the idea of change through the medium of education, led two high school boys to undertake an initiative which is now providing hundreds of underprivileged...
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This Udupi College Collects Used Cooking Oil from Hotels to Produce Biodiesel...
In five-star hotels, hundreds of litres of used cooking oil is thrown away as waste. Sometimes, they sell the oil to street-side food vendors at Rs 20 per litre. Or, soap manufacturers buy it from...
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Two Dutch Students Spread Awareness about Plastic Waste in Delhi Using a Mural
Two students from Netherlands came to India and saw the abysmal state of plastic waste and littering. They stayed, and decided they would raise awareness against it, starting with a mural in Delhi. If...
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This Mumbai College Produces 100 Kg Waste Everyday. But Doesn’t Send Any of...
The Vivekanand Education Society, which produces 100 kilograms of waste, has a zero-waste campus. While dry waste is given away to recycle, wet waste is used for composting. In the end, none of the...
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5 Apps That You Can Use to Get Rid of Trash and Keep Your Neighbourhoods Clean
Free your house and neighbourhood from the menace of growing waste with these apps that have revolutionised waste management in India. If you're tired of seeing garbage piling up on your street, all...
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Why Clog the Landfills When You Can Now Convert Organic Waste into Compost in...
Bioneer is a revolutionary machine that can create compost from organic waste in just 24 hours. An innovation of Mumbai-based Excel Industries Private Limited, this product is in the market now....
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