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India Budget 2023: Green only in name?
All economic activity must be regenerative, in that it sustains the ecological and socio-cultural conditions it depends on for a thriving society
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Gross family happiness, the farm living way
I started feeling that my economic needs (including my wants and desires) are not unlimited.
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Videos – Environment Session of Janta Parliament, 18 August 2020
Organised by several dozen networks and organisations of people's movements and civil society
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Press Release by Janta Parliament (जनता संसद) 18 Aug. 2020
Janta Parliament calls on urgent action for ecological security
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Gandhi, Tagore, Modernity
Both were the earliest harbingers of the planetary ecological crisis, the latter warning of its imminence in multiple literary genres
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समता, न्याय और सातत्यता की तरफ भारत: एक जन घोषणापत्र – फरवरी, 2019 (in Hindi)
आगामी राष्ट्रीय चुनावों के संबंध में राजनीतिक दलों को भेजा गया ...
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People’s Manifesto For a Just, Equitable, and Sustainable India (2019)
Sent to political parties in relation to the upcoming national elections...
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This is not the future we want
Any decent ecological assessment of a project needs a year of study (over all seasons), so the 180 days limit means short-cuts.
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ACT one: Anti-dam, pro-people
"... We should also start coming up with new ideas, showing alternatives (to livelihood).”