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Eco India, a joint venture between Scroll.in and DW, recently launched its 8th season. Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top stories this week explore topics like food wastage, wildlife conservation and green entrepreneurship.
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The people of India are venturing pragmatic solutions to combat climate change and are setting an example for the rest of the world to follow.
With schools now reopened in Bihar, India’s poorest state is now encouraging girls to start sustainable enterprises by designing the curriculum to equip young girl students to break stereotypes with green enterprises vital in solving the climate change at the community level. By providing internship opportunities with the local entrepreneurs on sustainable techniques such as organic farming and waste management, these hands-on-experience training provided at the school level can break new grounds in creating jobs for young people.
In the informal settlements of Mumbai, leopards live alongside people. Though the authorities had offered protective and preventive measures against human-leopard conflicts, the ecologists and animal activists argue that the leopards necessitate the much-needed ecological balance. Acknowledging this, to focus positive action by Mumbaikars to assess and assist leopard conservation and mitigate human-leopard conflict, the ‘living with leopard program’ is a proactive step to help humans live in harmony with wildlife.
In the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, diesel-powered rickshaws are known for their heavy carbon emissions. To effectively curb pollution and address gender inequalities, Vahini, a green entrepreneurship mission has created a social enterprise based on electric vehicles (EV). The e-rickshaws produced by them had created microentrepreneurs among the marginalized sections of the society, especially women who prefer to earn respectable wages by driving e-rickshaws in the city. While doing so, they also help bridge the gender divide by positively impacting women's mobility, girls’ dropout rates in schools, etc.
In a food surplus country like India, resolving the food waste issue remains challenging. Food waste also tends to emit greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide if left unattended in the environment. To manage the food waste in better ways and to put them into effective use, enterprises in northern India have created a sustainable solution for recycling waste into animal feed. India, with the largest livestock population with the lowest productivity, had found its restorative remedy in form of recycled food waste that is highly sustainable and economically viable.
Rhesus macaque, a sand-colored primate native to forests had overgrown its population exponentially in the city of Delhi. Apart from reduced habitat, the locals feeding the monkeys is also one of the reasons for their thriving numbers. Wildlife experts had suggested long-term population control measures such as sterilization and contraception or relocation to alternate forests as a remedial measure to protect the civilians from being attacked. On the flip side, animal activists invalidate such practices that promote aggression among the monkeys and advocate for human-primate coexistence.
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