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.
Re-Storing Hope
People had more than enough things to spare and these items could find a new life - an excellent channel for reuse and recycle.
Youth of northeast India use films to tell stories about their environment and communities
The use of a visual medium helps transcend the differences in language across the northeast region
Dump the AC, Use These 3 Green Cooling Solutions While Building Your Home!
"Everything we build from now onwards has to be eco-sensitive, energy efficient, cost efficient, people-centred and value-based."
Rearing goats empower women in rural Bihar
The women said that income from goats was theirs and they decided its usage.
महिलाओं की मेहनत रंग लाई (in Hindi)
इससे महिलाएं आत्मनिर्भर हुई हैं, उनके परिवार की आर्थिक स्थिति मजबूत हुई है, बच्चों की शिक्षा बेहतर हुई है।
From idea to community-owned enterprise: the journey of the Mukteshwar Farmers’ Producer Company (MKPC)
Based in Uttarakhand’s fruit belt, MKPC is a homegrown enterprise - started by a local NGO, but taken over by the farming community
Woman Collects Fish Waste From Stalls, Turns It Into ‘Fertifish’ to Grow Organic Veggies
When we have a solution to clear up our mess that is killing marine life right in front of our eyes we need to implement it
Unique school in Assam accepts plastic waste as school fees!
... to create a curriculum that would fit the students’ aspirations, enabling them and their families to build a better tomorrow.
B’luru Residents Turn Kitchen Waste Into 100 Kg of Biogas, Help Eatery Cook 3,000 Meals/Day!
Four tonnes of processed domestic waste generate 100 kg of bio-gas which is used by a restaurant to cook 3,000 meals a day.