Atulya Bingham: The forest man
Ludwig Appeltans is an experienced permaculture teacher who has lived in the forest for four years. He runs the Earth Ways permaculture project, aiming to reconnect people, land and nature. Here, he is...
View ArticleNEWS UPDATE #172
HIGHLIGHTS: *India’s budget ignores environment and climate change *India ranks 177 out of 180 in Environmental Performance Index *Study: India’s farmed chickens dosed with world’s strongest...
View ArticleGail Tverberg: Nine reasons why globalisation can’t be permanent
We know that economies need to grow, or they collapse. The wage disparity that high-wage countries have been experiencing in recent years is evidence that the world economy is already reaching energy...
View ArticlePetition: Safeguard our minerals, our children’s inheritance, from theft
From Change.org: India’s National Mineral Policy is open till Feb 9, 2018 for public comments. Minerals are a shared inheritance. The present mining system in India is leading to enormous losses of our...
View ArticleProject Puchki: Raising awareness on sustainable living and menstrual hygiene
Minhaj Ameen writes: Project Puchki has impacted 70,000 students in 1600 schools across 6 Indian States through 80 interns. It is our to take Project Puchki to all rural households of India and create...
View ArticleGeorge Monbiot: Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path
“Is western civilisation on the brink of collapse?” the lead article in this week’s New Scientist asks. It’s a good question, but it seems too narrow. These pathologies are not confined to “the west”....
View ArticleEcologise Foundation course in Energy and Energetics of Nature and Human Society
Most courses on energy deal with it in an instrumentalist manner, as if it were another substance that humans can tap and use for their benefit. Platform for Sustainability and Equity and Ecologise are...
View ArticleThe ‘Gujarat Development Model’ rests on the twin pillars of authoritarianism...
Atul Sood writes: Why are we not talking about the facts on the ground amidst the cacophonic discourse of the success of the Gujarat model? The need to impose Section 144 every time the Vibrant Gujarat...
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