To build a ProtoVillage that will exemplify abundance - this is the dream of Kalyan Akkipeddi.

Public institutions must be held to their core promise: to build cities whose horizons are defined by the equality of opportunity for all

“If green politics emerges as a binding agent of various marginalised groups and concerns, it definitely has a future in India.”

Enthusiastic bands of young people from this small tribal community in Arunachal Pradesh are trying to ind their future to their traditional roots

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

To become water-wise, people need granular data. Aquifers can be mapped within five years with smart, crowd-sourced, ground-up information, obtained with satellite data.

Ecological economists like Tim Jackson, Peter Victor, and others talk about prosperity without growth and highlight the need for greening the economy on a community scale.

Perhaps most promising was the ‘fish bowl’ session where anyone seeking or offering collaboration stepped into the middle and invited potential collaborators to discuss taking their ideas forward together.

"A majority of the water harvesting structures constructed by TBS in Alwar district of Rajasthan were private assets and not community assets. Even in the case of community structures, no mechanisms were developed at the village level to ensure that benefits were shared systematically and equitably."