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COVID-19: Time to rethink development
It is also an opportunity to help people value the importance of happy and fulfilling lives over one based on earning money.
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Community Forest Rights & The Pandemic: Gram Sabhas Lead the Way!
Empowerment of villagers to govern and manage local natural resources can sustain economies!
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जनता पार्लमेंट : दि.१८ आँगस्ट २०२० रोजी पर्यावरण सत्रात पारित ठराव (in Marathi)
पर्यावरण सत्रांत ८ विषयांवर ३० पेक्षा अधिक प्रस्ताव पारित केले गेले
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जनता संसद : पर्यावरण सत्र में पारित प्रस्ताव, 18 अगस्त, 2020 (in Hindi)
८ विषयों पर ३० से अधिक प्रस्ताव पारित किये गए
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Re-imagining food: Do we have the stomach for it?
Hunger ... is not due to lack of food, but lack of justice
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Stop messing with the environment and people’s rights!
There is serious inequality in who causes the problem and who is most badly affected, a situation of grave ecological injustice
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She sells cow dung products but not milk to save India’s desi cows
Burning of cow dung logs is much less polluting than burning wood.
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Reimagining Wellbeing: Villages opening spaces for Self-Governance
resisting mining ... and moving towards social, political, economic and ecological transformation
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Gandhi and green democracy: The evolution of eco-Swaraj
Swaraj - my own autonomy, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, my independence, both as an individual and as a community