Urban environment

A Navy veteran built a sustainable home in the suburbs of Bengaluru, which is self-sufficient in terms of power and water. Here’s how he went about it.

The cycle lane on ORR would help a large number of commuters, especially blue collar workers. But currently it is broken, encroached and uninviting.

Many common plastic products will be banned with Centre’s new Rules. But Bengaluru already has more restrictions due to a State ban.

As water scarcity worsens, more apartments are adopting smart water metering. This helps each household get real-time consumption data, and plug leakages

The forest provides the community free food, and has brought back bird and insect species that had long vanished from the area

A collective of poets, architects, artists and a well-digging community artistically recreate Bengaluru’s water situation at Cubbon Park metro station

As plans are set in motion to ‘develop’ Mallathahalli Lake, a citizen shares stunning images of the biodiversity that is under threat here.

A responsible Bengalurean drops waste plastic bottles into a recycle bin or bag. What happens to it then? How does it get eventually recycled?

Increasing fuel expenses and air pollution is pushing people to switch to electric vehicles. How can apartments set up charging infrastructure for them?

Large scale, unplanned urbanisation is turning Bengaluru into a heat island. Land surface temperatures are hitting 41℃!

Study blames Bengaluru’s changing rainfall patterns on climate change – more extreme events with higher intensity rainfall and more dry spells.

BWSSB now mandates apartments to install internal water meters, but many apartment associations find it’s not easy.