Learning and Education

Learning processes focusing on ethics, sustainability, equity, and well-being

This section features stories of initiatives to create spaces and opportunities for learning and education that enable continued or renewed connection with the environment and nature, with one’s community, and with humanity as a whole. These are stories of efforts to nurture a fuller range of collective and individual potentials and relationships, stories of unlearning the alienating, individualizing ‘education’ that mainstream institutions have been giving, stories where the formal and the informal, the traditional and modern, the local and global, are synergized. Initiatives ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in education would also be covered.

Education in an era of climate crisis

Our hope is that this approach will engender intellectual curiosity in students, inculcate a questioning mindset that can critique the status quo, and inoculate them against misinformation and disinformation (such as “greenwashing”).

Not rescue but revolution: Inside Kranti’s radical classroom

On the Himalayan slopes, far from the red-light districts where its students come from, a small school carves a new path for social change.

A retired couple educating rural kids in the mountains | Library Seems Happy (Documentary Film)

The library is a lifestyle they have developed which exhibits their mindful and responsible way of living. It is not just limited to the rural areas or villages but something every child has a right to receive.

Sacred groves anchor traditional healing: study

A recent study documents medicinal plants used by Indigenous communities in West Sikkim in India, linking traditional healing to the conservation of sacred groves and monastery forests.

Five stories of inspiration in the first month of 2026

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness....."- Howard Zinn

एक सहकारी संस्था का पुनर्जन्म (In Hindi)

ज़ुनफ़ा का पुनरुद्धार एक छोटे से सहकारी संगठन की कहानी है, जो कभी समय के साथ गुम हो गया था, और अब उसे नया जीवन मिल रहा है। यह समुदाय, पुनरुद्धार और मिलकर काम करने की शक्ति की कहानी है।

Art as a tool to enable resilience against tidal flooding

An art exhibition at the Kerala Museum has turned lived realities of tidal flooding into artistic evidence for action. The workshops held at the exhibition help build disaster preparedness among affected communities.

 Pluriverse of Alternatives Online Course

Rooted in the rich ecosystems of Vikalp Sangam and informed by decades of grassroots wisdom, the course brought together participants to explore transformative visions of ecological, social, cultural and economic change.

A Cooperative Reborn

The Revival of Zunpha tells the story of how a small cooperative, once lost to time, is finding new life. A tale of community, revival, and the power of working together.