Economics and Technologies
Community-based alternatives for production, consumption, and exchange
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Community-based alternatives for production, consumption, and exchange
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This section features stories of initiatives that help to create an alternative to the dominant neo-liberal or state-dominated economy. These include: localisation of economic activity with democratic control, producer and consumer collectives, local currencies and trade, non-monetised exchage and the gift economy, ecologically sensitive products and processes, macro-economic concepts that respect ecological limits, and approaches to human well-being that go beyond growth, GDP and other narrow measures and indicators.
What we do not feature are superficial and false solutions, such as market and technological fixes for problems that are deeply social and political, or more generally, ‘green growth’ kind of approaches that only tinker around with the existing system.
How Forest-Dwelling Communities are Braving the Pandemic
Local communities and gram sabhas better understand the local complexities than local administrations while dealing with a crisis
A rainbow recovery post-COVID
About creating dignified livelihoods, protecting nature, ensuring justice for all, and reviving solidarity.
COVID-19: Time to rethink development
It is also an opportunity to help people value the importance of happy and fulfilling lives over one based on earning money.
Press Release – Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan – Farming Reforms Acts 2020
3 Farm Bills - passed as Laws - pose a serious threat to the food security of Indian citizens
How to leverage trained water professionals
Who are the trained people, where are they, and what do they already know?
How Vishala Reddy is bringing millets back into vogue — and she’s ‘banking’ on it big time!
The Millet Bank will help farmers set up a processing unit
She sells cow dung products but not milk to save India’s desi cows
Burning of cow dung logs is much less polluting than burning wood.
Lady of the lakes: Meet this 19-year-old eco-warrior, app developer who aims to end water pollution
Using the lockdown time to analyse the 1,800 data points about water from their locality that students shared ...
In a First, a City Frees a River Using Funds Meant To Concretise It
The best way to mitigate flood damage (by rivers) is to let (their) floodplains be(!)