POV498088: Qutb Minar tower: most perfect ancient example of minar to exist anywhere, close-up of carvings and deeply inscribed verses from Koran, highest stone tower in India, 72.5m, Indo-Islamic architecture, within Qutb Minar complex=first monuments of Muslim India, Unesco World Heritage Site Delhi, India / Bridgeman Images
POV499104: Metalworker (female) casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from war debris and melted in an earthen kiln in remote ethnic Lao Lum village, Ban Naphia, the "War Spoon/Bracelet village" where, in cottage industries, war scrap (bomb and plane metal from Second Indochina War) is melted down and moulded into spoons - 150000/year - and bracelets, motto: "Make Spoons/Bracelets not War" Phaxay District, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos, Southeast Asia MORE INFO: RISE (Rural Income through Sustainable Energy), a project supporting remote communities in gaining access to sustainable and locally produced clean energy and using local resources to generate income while safeguarding the environment, implemented by Helvetas Laos, a Swiss Association for International Cooperation & Development, see: www.helvetas-laos.org / Bridgeman Images
POV498033: Array of photo-voltaic solar panels on school roof (advanced solar energy system making school energy self-sufficient), peaks of Zanskar Range in bckgnd. Druk White Lotus School (Padma/Pema Karpo Educational Institute, World architecture award: Best green building 2002), Shey, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himalayas, India / Bridgeman Images