The United Nations Environment Programme has praised farmers of Kuruvai village in Palakkad district for their success in cultivating paddy without chemical pesticides.

Main advantages include - Needs barely 5-6 l of water, No solid waste output, Only colourless, odourless liquid is output

Are there alternative ways of meeting human needs and aspirations, without trashing the earth and without leaving half of humanity behind?

Challenges can be overcome if people themselves fight for the demands made at last year's climate marches: "Keep the climate, change the economy!"

At Sadhana Forest, on the outskirts of Auroville, a community plants trees and lives in rhythm with nature.

A narrow focus on growth-led development is the cause of the world’s sustainability crisis, not its solution

There can be small beginnings. For instance, people can cycle to their offices instead of using cars, and offices can frame a policy to buy and eat only what is grown locally.

Ladakhis are working quietly towards sustaining, reviving and reconstructing society in ways that could bring back some harmony between humans and nature.

Women make houses, women make homes.