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.

जनता संसद : पर्यावरण सत्र में पारित प्रस्ताव, 18 अगस्त, 2020 (in Hindi)

८ विषयों पर ३० से अधिक प्रस्ताव पारित किये गए

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.

Reimagining Wellbeing: Villages opening spaces for Self-Governance

resisting mining ... and moving towards social, political, economic and ecological transformation

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 ...

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