Based on worldwide public nominations, our independent regional panel chose these six projects for the first series of Saving the Planet. These were drawn from Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand.

The stories are:

• Environmental Education for children and adults in three floating villages on the Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia
• School and Community Farmland Bio-Diversity Conservation, Thailand
• Biyaheng Ayta, a theater cum workshop educational initiative of indigenous youth, Philippines
• Young People Transforming Education, Lao PDR
• "Kude Se Dhan” – Growing food on waste, Dindigul, southern India
• Radio Sagarmatha public radio station, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal