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SM Raju has found a way to plant nearly one billion saplings in only one day: by hiring people who are below the poverty line in India to plant and then to protect trees. The plan is to pay people who would otherwise be unemployed to plant and grow trees as a family. Each year [...]

Cell phones are handy devices and can be used for seemingly endless purposes. Indian farmers are using SMS to help them earn more money from their crops.
Standing in a grove of lush green banana trees I find Kapil Jachak.
He’s busy checking his mobile phone for text messages containing practical information for farmers.
It’s a new service [...]

Doctors WIthout Borders has released a press release that says that an HIV/AIDS drug can now be made generically. This will lower the cost of the drug allowing more people access to it, this is very important for people living in the developing world. The company that held the patent, Gilead Sciences, claimed to [...]

In every science text book I’ve seen only European thinkers are praised for their discoveries and this was to go unquestioned. As a result of my education I take great pleasure when those who wrote the books (so to speak) are proven horribly wrong. It boils down to the fact I like seeing credit given [...]

Mercury, a dangerous heavy metal, has not been allowed to be traded in the EU, and recently the UN has called on a global ban on mercury. This near-global effort to limit mercury use has now hit India, as the country is feeling more pressure to at least regulate their mercury trade. India is currently [...]

The Air Car is hitting the production line! Last time we mentioned it on ThingsAreGood, we were aware that Indian car maker Tata had signed on to make the vehicle.
EcoGeek is reporting that the Air Car is about to roll out in India. The company behind the car have also signed a deal to bring [...]