Rural Women’s Quiet Resolve Ignites Water Conservation in Bundelkhand
It is such women who will create the new India, a country based on equality of all sections of society.
Bharat Dogra
•5 min read
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Ecologically Destructive Mining: The Root of Bodepurva’s Extreme Migration
Just for the one-time high profits of a very small number of highly powerful persons, the sustainable livelihoods of many, many villages like Bodepurva have been sacrificed.
Bharat Dogra
•4 min read
Pesticides and other threats endanger honey bees and their crucial ecological roles
If natural pollination processes are disrupted then the threat to the potential of natural farming will be very high as this farming depends more on natural systems.
Bharat Dogra
•4 min read
The Forest Within You
The future of the rainforest is inseparable from the future of humanity itself.
Shoiab Mohmmad Bhat
•6 min read
From Migration to Identity: Water, Hard Work, and Women’s New Flight
“We used to think this land could only survive on rain. But when water came, we understood that the real strength was always in our own hands.”
Vikas Meshram
•8 min read
AS COTTON CULTIVATION BECOMES UNVIABLE IN MANY VILLAGES OF INDIA, GM CROPS FACE MORE CRITICISM
Whatever the short-term gains, if any, these are quickly exhausted, leaving farmers burdened with more pests, more pesticides, higher costs of seeds and pesticides.
Bharat Dogra
•11 min read
BIWAL’s Sustainable Development and Climate Resilient Initiatives Bring Hope to Bundelkhand’s Villages
BIWAL has offered a model that increases hope of farmers with just 1 to 4 acres of land by reducing their costs and increasing their net income, while also improving nutrition and health.
Bharat Dogra
•7 min read
The Contemporary Relevance of Halma, Sarvodaya, and Gandhi’s Swaraj
Halma presents an entirely different economic model—one that functions without money, where relationships are not measured in currency.
Vikas Meshram
•7 min read
Aama’s Ecology
Today, I feel that the greatest environmentalist in my life was my Aama—i.e. my grandmother. She taught me that cutting a green tree was a sin; that the…
Rajshekhar Pant
•4 min read
Their Share of the Environment
If environmental discourse fails to connect with villages, farms, water sources, mountain slopes, and local livelihoods, it will remain confined to seminars, speeches, and newspaper columns.
Rajshekhar Pant
•6 min read
ECOCIDE: Development under the shade of financial gain
Why the global movement to recognize ecocide as an international crime is gaining momentum and what it means for India’s Great Nicobar and beyond.
Afifa Ahmad
•7 min read