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.

Darjeeling zoo showed the world how to save red pandas. Now it’s on a global award shortlist

It became the first and only centre in India to establish a genetic biobank facility to preserve the DNA and genetic material of endangered animals like red pandas, snow leopards, and Himalayan tahrs.

Vikalp Sangam: a decade of exploration on alternatives in India

The more democratic, participatory, diverse, and exciting one can make the process, the more the likelihood of at least some aims being met, and unanticipated benefits being incurred.

पश्चिमी हिमालय के 25 संगठनों ने सामाजिक और पारिस्थितिकी मुद्दों के लिए मिलकर काम करने का संकल्प लिया (In Hindi)

बातचीत और चर्चा में सतत विकास मॉडल, सामुदायिक संरक्षित क्षेत्र और पश्चिमी हिमालय में मानव-वन्यजीव संघर्ष, लिंग समावेशन, भूमि कानून और पर्यटन सहित आम चुनौतियों सहित ‘विकल्पों’ के उदाहरण साझा करना शामिल था।

25 Organisations across the Western Himalayas Resolve to Work Together for Social and Ecological Issues

Such gatherings serve as a platform for diverse organisations to come together, reflect on the values that drive their work, and chart pathways for collective transformational change in the Himalayas.

When people’s participation propels science

Giving authorship builds a sense of ownership among local communities who could become ambassadors of species conservation.

Sangham Sisters: Empowerment for Ecological Justice

The film explores the relationship between ecology and democracy, with the case study of Deccan Development Society Sanghams

Naming Ants and Seashells

On the role of local nature on children’s language acquisition and the role of language in protecting our living world

कचरे से खिलौने बनाकर विज्ञान पढ़ाना (In Hindi)

अरविंद गुप्ता कहते हैं कि आप केवल मूर्खतापूर्ण खिलौने ही खरीद सकते हैं, चतुर खिलौने हाथों से बनाएं जाते हैं