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Films worth exploring

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28 published entries

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Eco India: Why decentralised renewable energy is key to India's long-term development goals

Explore decentralised renewable energy and rural livelihoods.

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Eco India: How Chennai's children are redesigning their sweltering city

Explore young people taking part in neighbourhood climate design.

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Eco India: Can sustainable architecture really beat the urban heat?

Explore construction and cooling approaches for a hotter urban environment.

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Eco India: How Bengaluru's citizens are working towards making it water positive

Explore community responses to water scarcity.

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Eco India: Are Water ATMs a solution to Delhi's water problems?

Investigate the promise and limits of water dispensing infrastructure.

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Eco India: Why Delhi needs to increase its reliance on treated wastewater to meet its water needs

Explore treated wastewater and urban demand.

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Eco India: An innovation incubator lab at IIT-Delhi may have found an alternative to stubble burning

Explore an historical crop-residue alternative to open burning.

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Eco India: How Amritsar's e-autos are fast changing its transport landscape for the better

Explore reporting on electric three-wheelers and transport change.

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Urban Nature-based Solutions: Living rivers

Explore nature-based approaches through a living-rivers example.

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Eco India Shorts: Gujarat's green schools is helping its students understand the environment better

Explore how schools can support environmental understanding.

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Aravalli Biodiversity Park : How a sand mine was restored to a 350 acre forest

Explore reporting on restoring a former mining site to a biodiversity park.

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Eco India: The artisans recycling floral waste from Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak temple into natural dyes

See a reported use of discarded flowers in natural dyes.

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Changing India: HelpUsGreen

Explore a reported business approach to recovering floral waste.

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Eco India: Why plastic producers must partner with informal waste pickers for a circular economy

Explore the role of informal waste collectors in circular systems.

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Eco India: Are Delhi's waste-to-energy plants trading one environmental crisis for a deadlier one?

Examine reporting on the trade-offs around waste-to-energy plants.

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Eco India: How can we manage our growing pile of sanitary waste better?

Explore the difficulties of handling sanitary waste responsibly.

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Eco India: A Pune woman is making sure waste is not wasted

Investigate leaf management and composting as an alternative to burning.

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Why plastic pollution is high on the agenda for this year's UN Environment Assembly

Understand how UNEP framed the plastic pollution problem in 2022.

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Eco India: A green oasis in Delhi NCR is fighting to be recognised as a forest by the government

Understand a local forest protection and recognition debate.

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Eco India: Why native plant species are more reliable to regenerate forests

Explore native-species approaches to restoring an ecosystem.

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Introducing the Interceptor | Cleaning Rivers | The Ocean Cleanup

See how the project team describes intercepting river plastic before it reaches the sea.

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India's Water Revolution #5: Permaculture Rescue for Dying Farmland

Explore a filmed approach to water and degraded farmland.

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India's Water Revolution #2: The Biggest Permaculture Project on Earth! with the Paani Foundation

A village-scale look at water harvesting and collective organisation.

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India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation

Explore community participation and watershed work through the Paani Foundation story.

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UNEP's Inger Andersen calls for collective action on Clean Air for Blue Skies Day 2022

Look beyond personal habits to monitoring, regulation and regional cooperation.

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Eco India: Is growing air pollution leading to increasing risks of chronic diseases in India?

Explore reporting on pollution exposure and chronic disease risk.

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Eco India: Could a network of local air quality sensors be a solution to Delhi's deadly pollution?

Explore local air-quality sensor networks as an information tool.

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How can India combat its surging air pollution problem? | DW News

Understand the Delhi pollution debate and the demand for action.

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