Olivette Riverside Community and Farm Shares Harvest Bounty With Western North Carolina Nonprofits Battling Food Insecurity

Diverse examples show the importance of air movement and the creative ways in which contractors and manufacturers have dealt with it successfully.

Change for Social Transformation — Design for Change

Power outage? Grab a length of steel automotive brakeline tubing, the straw from a box of Yoo-Hoo, D-cell batteries to make a 6V. Also may require generous amounts of duct tape, electrical tape, bell wire, and boredom.

The many ways in which officials in a region gripped by crisis try to deal with it can be intriguing. Even entertaining. From advising farmers to plant crops in line with zodiac signs to suggesting they bear arms against moneylenders — it's all happening in Vidarbha, writes P Sainath.