Environment and Ecology

Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits

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This section relates to initiatives that promote the principles of ecological integrity and limits. These are initiatives which envision models of decentralized conservation of land, water and biodiversity, based on a respect for both local and modern knowledge, and considering environment as an integral part of life and work. It also highlight attempts at linking livelihoods to ecological regeneration and restoration at local and landscape level. It will feature innovative attempts to deal with problems of pollution and waste. Overall, this section will try to work towards an understanding of the ecosystem which includes sociological, historical and geographical considerations while deciding on the path that local urban/ rural communities and the larger society take towards well-being.

Gandhi and green democracy: The evolution of eco-Swaraj

Swaraj - my own autonomy, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, my independence, both as an individual and as a community

Videos – Environment Session of Janta Parliament, 18 August 2020

Organised by several dozen networks and organisations of people's movements and civil society

The Ecosystem of Learning

Reimagining an Earth-centric and child-centric education

THE ‘ECOPOLITICAL’ IMPERATIVE AND THE JANTA PARLIAMENT

the imperative of bringing the ecological question on to the centre-stage of politics

Capacity building for water conservation needs: A young mind at work

The community was educated, their trust gained, and constant support provided to them

How a restoration project in Karnataka is helping revive ecology, community livelihood

... a powerful livelihood alternative, a win-win for the forest-dependent communities and the ecology of the area

What’s wrong with the trees of Lutyens’ Delhi?

Can we afford to go on watering the evergreen trees the British chose for Lutyens’ Delhi?

Janta Parliament: Resolutions Passed in Session on Environment, 18 August 2020

Over 30 resolutions relating to eight subjects passed at the Environment session

Jan Sarokar – People’s Policy for Post COVID-19 Times, August 2020

Opportunity to redesign our economy towards generating tens of millions of ecologically sustainable and dignified livelihoods.