The practices of extracting excessive biomass from forests and poor land management practices have begun to threaten the fragile mountain ecosystem. 60% of the families in the hills use torchwood and kerosene for lighting their houses, as power grid lines have not reached many of these areas. Village Pinswar is one such village that is about 18 km away from the nearest power grid line. Excessive land degradation and deforestation in this village has triggered recurrent landslides and floods. The problems of the village are remoteness and marginality, poverty, drudgery, lack of infrastructure and awareness and over dependence on environment for livelihoods. The purpose of the project is to provide community owned solutions for using renewable sources of energy to reduce biotic pressures on fragile mountain environment and providing opportunities for supplementary livelihoods to people living in remote areas of the Himalayas.