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.
प्रशासन व ग्रामसभा में हुआ करार अनोखी पहल : लेखा-मेंढा ग्रामसभा से ऐतिहासिक शुरुआत (in Hindi)
जैवविविधता संवर्धन व शाश्वत विकास इस संकल्पना से आदिवासियों के उपजीविका के विकास के लिए गौण वनोपज पर आधारित यह प्रकल्प शुरू किया गया है.
Fish on their plate, money in their wallet
The low-cost eco-friendly aquaculture model reboots rural economies and reduces people’s vulnerability.
Gadchiroli Admin’s Initiative for development through gram sabhas
The project will incorporate concepts of bio-diversity conservation and sustainable development with the participation of gram sabhas.
The Art of Getting by – COVID-19 and Self-reliance
How a spontaneous switch to a barter economy saved a little hamlet in the Sundarbans during lockdown
Two young women in Nagaland are leading a crusade against e-waste
They want to expand to other districts in Nagaland and also collaborate with others from the northeastern region.
Redefining India’s development on Gandhi’s ‘swaraj’ path
Self-sufficiency in the economy involves reduction in the distance between production and consumption to a minimum.
Ranchi shows how India’s biggest cycling lessons lie in its smaller cities
Ranchi has taken critical and innovative steps that can be adopted locally by the bigger cities that are looking at turning to cycling for transport.
देशज् तकनीक से बना मिट्टी का घर (in Hindi)
स्थानीय मिट्टी, पानी और लकड़ी से बना घर बहुत उपयोगी है। इससे सैकड़ों बेघर लोगों के मकान का सपना साकार हो सकता है।
Balkrishna Doshi honoured with the Royal Gold Medal 2022, the world’s highest honour for architecture
Despite the availability of divergent technology, he remained closely connected with the local climate, and new and old crafts in the 20th century.