Category Archives: Environment

Videos showing Small Scale Production of Biodiesel

Here is a good video showing you how you can make or Produce your own Bio-Diesel on a small scale if you have a small space or a garage at you disposal.These type of videos are a huge hit and … Continue reading

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Ten Difficult Ways to Save the Environment

So here is a list of 10 difficult (easy with practice) steps that you could learn and follow to make the environment green and friendly. Take a bus and leave your car home. Don’t ever drive an SUV (sports utility … Continue reading

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Double Standards

While the Agarias wage a constant struggle with the forest department, the government has allegedly turned a blind eye to pollution by two soda ash-making units run by major industrial groups. At Mithapur in Jamnagar district’s Okha taluka there are … Continue reading

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More pictures from the Rann

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Salt making in the Little Rann of Kachchh – Gujarat, India

I took these pictures while doing a story on Agariyas of Gujarat. Surviving in an extremally difficult terrain, under the blistering sun, Agariyas manufacture for us a commodity that we call COMMON SALT. What we do not see is the … Continue reading

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Hello World-Welcome to Wildandhappy.org

Hey People, Welcome to “Wild and Happy” First the name (there is a lot in the name!) Why are we “wild and happy”? I was desperately hunting for a good name for my blog and was frustrated that anything I … Continue reading

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Toxic Waste kept for Safe Disposal in Bharuch Catches Fire

A Fire at a facility especially set up to safely store and dispose of hazardous waste at Ankleshwar in Bharuch district of Gujarat has revealed how callously dangerous waste is managed in the country. In what could have been an … Continue reading

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No Return of The Native

Wizened old Jidemadamma has to depend on her neighbours for meals. Her son and daughter-in-law have gone to Kodagu to collect pepper from trees and will not be back before two weeks. They took the children along because I cannot … Continue reading

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