Greening India: Back to the Future

Welcome to the Planning Site for India's First Grassroots Green Festival

This site has been established to organize and publicize the 2009 Greening India Conference, Expo and Festival in the fabled historic oasis of Udaipur, Rajasthan. These events are intended to explore and introduce the most cost-effective eco-friendly technologies for renewing urban and/or rural communities, and build new grassroots networks and global alliances to further their development and diffusion. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Together we can make it happen.

Whatever happened to Alternative Tech?

Back in the Sixties and Seventies, the grassroots development community was afire with the buzzword "alternative tech". Creative compilations of elegant low tech solutions were being amassed by the Whole Earth Catalog in the US, the Center for Alternative Technology in the UK, and many other international organizations. It seemed we would soon enjoy an ever growing knowledge base and resource trove for community development workers around the world.

Sulabh is perhaps the world's largest provider of clean toliet facilities. That's a claim that even Gandhi-ji aspired to but never achieved.
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How to use this site

This site heaves with ideas and information. Have a look at this page to get a better idea of how the site is organised.
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