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.

Reviving an Urban Lake – Doddagubbi Kere

“Our pond is the only documented example of a simple, Natural Pond-Forest revival, a Solution for the looming urban environmental and water crisis"

Questioning the consumption based developmental paradigm

Taking up personal and social initiatives in order to create awareness and reduce environmental impact...

A 500-year-old fort is the site of a new battle-to clean it up

Like cleanliness, heritage conservation has also remained neglected. So I thought we should combine the two.

This Himachal teenager is bringing the forests back, his dream is 1 billion trees

“Because of him, the number of students doing voluntary tree plantation has almost doubled,”

Environmental & Economic Sustainability, Social Harmony and Social Transmutation : an example towards Self-rule/Swaraj

On an average, around one hundred people worked daily for around one and a half years to dig the canal through the mountain.

From Close Quarters: Protecting an Adivasi Culture the State Wants to Destroy

The unrest in and around Bastar is fundamentally about respect, dignity and trust in our behaviour towards other people

Conservation Education: Planning to Educate, Educating to Plan

The deliberations were focused and upheld a high quality, stressed on group activities and ensured a high degree of participation.

Spotlight on Regeneration: The Timbaktu Collective bridging community and conservation

The Kalpavalli Community Conservation Area is an experiment in regeneration that has become an example of coexistence.

How a village in Phek dist. revived millets and became gender wise

Like millets and paddy, men and women should work and produce together.