🇮🇳India

The world's largest beach cleanup, started single-handedly by Mumbai lawyer Afroz Shah in 2015.

An Indian solar micro-grid developer builds decentralized, community-owned power plants that bring round-the-clock electricity to villages beyond the national grid.

A Delhi cleantech startup built a device that clamps onto diesel generator exhausts and turns the captured soot into usable ink and paint.

SELCO Foundation designs solar-powered solutions for low-income Indian households, clinics, and small businesses to improve livelihoods.

An Ahmedabad-founded women's NGO training female construction workers in Delhi to monitor air quality and demand clean-air action.

One man who single-handedly grew a forest on a barren Brahmaputra sandbar over four decades.

The world's largest operator of community solar mini-grids delivers round-the-clock renewable power to rural villages and small businesses across India and Nigeria that the national grid has never reached.

India's 'Waterman' Rajendra Singh turned a dying craft of earthen check dams into a movement that brought dried-up Rajasthan rivers back to life.

Five worried Delhi mothers turned lockdown blue skies into a pan-India movement demanding clean air for every child.

A former journalist's grassroots mission is replacing Punjab's smoke-choked stubble fires with mulching, composting, and organic farming.

Rural grandmothers from dozens of countries train in Tilonia, Rajasthan to become 'Solar Mamas' who electrify their own villages.

Yuwa fields girls' football teams and runs a free school in rural Jharkhand, using the game to keep girls in the classroom and out of child marriage.

A rural Odisha NGO refuses to install a single tap or toilet in a village until every household, rich or poor, agrees to join in and build them together.

Magic Bus uses weekly sports sessions led by young community mentors to keep India's poorest adolescents in school and out of child labour and early marriage.

Kheyti's 'Greenhouse-in-a-Box' gives Indian smallholders an affordable, low-water greenhouse that multiplies yields and incomes.

A grassroots NGO built waste-collection systems from scratch in Himalayan towns and national parks that had none, one trail and one household at a time.

Villagers across rural Bengal stage forum theatre plays that let audiences step onstage and rehearse standing up to domestic violence, child marriage and corruption.

In flood-prone Gorakhpur, women farmers are turning the city's peri-urban wetlands and fields into working flood buffers that also feed their families.

A volunteer-driven Delhi non-profit that turned parental worry over toxic winters into a Supreme Court petition and a citywide clean-air education movement.