Bringing India Back From the Brink

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 10, 2015

In A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and micro-enterprises determined to revive India’s ravaged natural world. An engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates, villagers resuscitate a river run dry, cook-stove designers persist on the quest for a smokeless fire, and biologists bring vultures back from the brink of extinction.

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