Dear Maheshwariji,
You can contact:
Director,
Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources
29, Zone II Maharana Pratap Nagar
Bhopal 462001


You can also get in touch with
Acon Power Consultants
45 Satyanand Vihar, Rampur, Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh 482008
Ph: 2667261

Mailhem Engineers Pvt Ltd
14, Vishrambag Society
Senapati Bapat Road
Pune 411 016
Ph: (020) 4002285
E-mail: sarath@vsnl.com

Dear Shankarji, A lot of queries. I’ve tried to answer:
1. Address of Coir Board:
Coir House, M G Road,
Kochi 682 016
Ph: 0484-351807, 351788, 351954, 354397
E-mail: coir@md2.vsnl.net.in
URL: http://www.coirindia.org

Bharatiya Cattle Resource Development Foundation.
Ahimsa Bhawan, F-125 Lado Sarai.
Mehrauli, New Delhi 110 030

2. Most of the food grown by your local vegetablewala would probably be organic. Rice and pulses from small village farms are usually organic even though they do not have a label. If you grow vegetables in your kitchen garden without chemical fertilizers, it is organic
food too.

For buying labeled organic food you can get in touch with:
Navdanya
A-60, Hauz Khas
New Delhi - 110016, and Aurobindo Ashram on Aurobindo Marg, opposite IIT Delhi.

There are a lot of labelled organic food available with ‘upmarket’ stores.
Naturally dyed fabrics are found in various parts of India. Khadi Bhandars and many other outlets and small shops have naturally dyed clothes. Recycled paper too is sold by a number of organisations and shops. In Delhi, you can contact:
Development Alternatives,
B-32, Tara Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area,
New Delhi 110016

3. Among magazines on environment, Down To Earth of course is probably the only one of its kind in India. Sanctuary Asia is another popular magazine on wildlife and conservation. You can subscribe to international journals like The Ecologist, Resurgence. Please take a look at the library section of CSE (www.cseindia.org) for more information on magazines and journals. And if all else fails there’s always Gobar Times!

4. Yash Vasant Joshi is from Mumbai, not Delhi. He won the Intel Achievement Award, 2001 for his project Reprocessing of Plastic Wastes at Place of Generation. You can contact him at: