Economics and Technologies

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 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(!)

Invitation to join Vikalp Sutra

Open to organisations, institutions, government agencies, businesses, support groups, networks, and individuals

Tula: A Return to India’s Regenerative Cotton Roots

Tula has a policy of not exporting their fabric or clothing, despite many requests.

Landless tribes fulfill nutritient needs by growing vegetables in bags

Bori bagicha, which means garden-in-a-bag, was initiated as the villagers do not own land where they can grow vegetables

सौर ऊर्जा से रोशन होते आदिवासी गांव (in Hindi)

जो महिलाएं कभी घर से बाहर निकली थीं, वे गांव गांव जाकर सोलर बल्ब की मरम्मत कर रही हैं।