SM Raju is a civil servant in the Indian state of Bihar who has taken a novel approach to improve the poors life circumstances and at the same time enhance the environment for generations to come. What he calls “social forestry programme” takes advantage of the central government’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which [...]
Manasvi reports:
As we need transportation for soil, seeds, seed balls and saplings in Maharashtra and Gujarat, Earth Reforest System bought a used Jeep. The transfer papers for the Jeep are currently being processed by the authorities and will be ready within a month. After this we will be able to drive the vehicle on Maharashtra‘s [...]
Amai Mahalinga Naik, an illiterate farm worker who used to harvest coconuts as a freelancer dreamed of his own plot of land. One farmer satisfied with Amai’s work helped him to get two acres of barren land on a hilltop from the government. When Amai got the land nothing was growing there and there was [...]
How about trying what the sound designer and composer Diego Stocco did: Spending a sunny afternoon out in the garden and composing and recording a piece of music played on a tree! It’s quite interesting, how many different sounds one can create with a tree. What do you think: did the tree enjoy this playful [...]
