Moving air — gentle as a breeze or strong as a storm.
Windmill farms harness moving air to generate electricity.
Rainwater harvesting and traditional stepwells (Bawadi, Vav) store water for later use.
Dumping waste into water sources makes water unfit for use.
Using sunlight, starting the food chain that feeds everything else.
Solar cookers, solar water heaters, and solar panels for electricity.
Dense plant growth feeds and shelters wild animals, birds, and insects.
In the early 1970s, women in Uttarakhand hugged trees to stop them from being felled.
Formed as rocks slowly break apart over thousands of years, through Sun, water, and earthworms.
Granite and marble for construction; aluminium, gold, and iron extracted from minerals.
Petrol, diesel, kerosene.
Cooking, CNG for vehicles.
Generating electricity.
Replenished naturally within a reasonable time — air, water, forests.
Take millions of years to form and are limited — coal, petroleum, natural gas, minerals.
Things we get from nature.
Things people create from natural resources.
Replenished naturally, e.g. air, water, forests.
Limited, take ages to form.
Coal, petroleum, natural gas.
Collecting and storing rainwater.
Formed from broken-down rock over time.
Substances in rocks that metals are extracted from.