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.

Auroville’s innovators

The mystery of Auroville - celebrating a few initiatives and individuals

Indian Students Mail 20,000 Plastic Food Wrappers Back to Manufacturers

Producers, importers and brand owners — not municipalities — are responsible for collecting plastic waste left by their products.

चिराला के हथकरघे (in Hindi)

चिराला, हथकरघा की हस्तकला और कारीगरी के लिए प्रसिद्ध है। यहां की रेशम, जरी वाली साड़ी, विशेषकर पट्टूबादी साड़ी की ख्याति है।

Will citizen technology rescue Bengaluru’s lakes in 2019?

The kit includes instructions to test water for nitrate, phosphate, chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen and fluoride content, using the reagents provided.

Hunger has no religion: Hyderabad man feeds hundreds of hungry people

They started with 30-35 people and today more than 150-200 people are provided food in Hyderabad on a daily basis

Smartphones to map invasive plants in Tamil Nadu

Maps of vegetation are scientifically compiled from contributions by students who get to understand adverse impacts of invasive plants.

New Grading Machine Helps Small Farmers

Agro-waste falls off the upper deck; small grain collects in one tub and the good grain remains in the middle deck, collecting in a separate tub.

We need to go beyond self-interest or we’re doomed: Jean Drèze

There is a natural complementarity between research and action which means using non-violent, democratic means to bring about change.

These Two Friends Started Goa’s First Zero-Waste Store To Beat Plastic Pollution At Its Root

How a zero-waste store can actually substitute conventional departmental stores.