India Climate Justice The latest issue of Mausam, the e-mag published by India Climate Justice, is out. Here’s the list of contents: CONTENTS Experiencing the Change: Climate Change and Everyday Life in Coffee Plantations of South India Anshu Ogra Human Trafficking and Climate Disasters Sayantoni Datta Betting on the Wrong Horse: Fast Reactors and Climate Change MV…
Read More about New issue of Mausam, India’s only Climate Change journalAzim Premji University Azim Premji University, Bangalore, is holding a non-residential introductory course, Understanding Rural India: Life and Livelihoods at the Base of the Pyramid, aimed at those who are relatively new to the development sector. Dates: Nov 16 – 26, 2015 Venue: Bangalore Rural India is undergoing unprecedented transformations, which have profound impact on the…
Read More about Course: Understanding Rural IndiaJohn Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report (Click here to view original essay and comments) There are certain advantages to writing out the ideas central to this blog in weekly bursts. Back in the days before the internet, when a galaxy of weekly magazines provided the same free mix of ideas and opinions that fills the…
Read More about Political Violence – The Last Refuge of the Incompetent?How climate change helped spark a bloody civil war By Audrey Quinn and Jackie Roche, Mother Jones This comic was produced by Years of Living Dangerously and Symbolia Magazine. You can read more of their comics exploring the impacts of climate change here.
Read More about Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic StripScience Express is a unique exhibition train running on the Indian Rail network since 2007. Its next phase is focusing on climate change and science. Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Centre (VASCSC) is looking for young science postgraduates/graduates with excellent communication skills, to interpret the exhibition for the visitors and facilitate various activities of the…
Read More about Wanted: Science Communicators for Science Express – Climate Change SpecialLetter from Shreekumar of Sangatya Commune, who hosted the first Ecologise Camp We had a good beginning to the Ecologise programme with the first orientation camp held at Sangatya Commune, Nakre, Karkala.
Read More about Report on Ecologise Camp 1Climate Change: A Warning From Islam Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum Photos Ziglab Lake, Jordan, 2009 On August 19, a convocation of some sixty leading Muslim clerics and religious scholars from around the planet, spurred by the growing siege of climate disasters affecting the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, issued an Islamic…
Read More about Islamic Declaration on Global Climate ChangeThe Ecologise Camp is a programme through which those living in cities can explore living in an ecologically more sensitive and sustainable manner. Specifically, it is a programme involving stay and work on an organic farm for varying periods, as a volunteer. The programme will be preceded by a weekend orientation workshop , during which the…
Read More about First Ecologise Camp at Nakre, near Udupi, KarnatakaTask Force Report (TFR) of the 38th Indian Social Science Congress 29th March – 2nd April, 2015; Visakhapatnam, India. Prepared by Dr. Claude Alvares, Dr. J.B.G. Tilak and Sumana Nandi Introduction: The Indian Academy of Social Sciences (ISSA) in association with Andhra University held the 38th Indian Social Science Congress on ‘Knowledge Systems, Scientific Temper and…
Read More about 38th Indian Social Science Congress – Task Force ReportPrayas (Energy Group) Prayas (Energy Group) or PEG is a leading energy policy research and advocacy organization based in Pune, known for its analysis based policy advocacy. Based on a rigorous analytical approach backed by policy and institutional innovation, PEG actively intervenes in regulatory and policy spheres in the energy sector with the objective of promoting public interest…
Read More about Prayas looking for Energy Policy Researchers at PuneA publication by FLEDGE, Chennai From the Preface: While a large amount of time and energy is spent on deciding the future of sustainability using the Rio+20 outcome document ‘The Future We Want’, limited space is available for local communities to tell their stories on how simple, on-the-ground initiatives are being pursued enabling them to…
Read More about Sustainable Development: Stories from those making it possibleAustralian artist Stuart McMillan has spent over 700 hours creating this amazing cartoon of the life and work of M.King Hubbert. McMillan writes on his blog about what he aimed to do with this cartoon: I knew that I couldn’t produce the definitive account of Peak Oil, through the medium ofcomics. I could simply never…
Read More about Peak Oil: A Graphic StoryThe Breakthrough Institute From the Introduction: To say that the Earth is a human planet becomes truer every day. Humans are made from the Earth, and the Earth is remade by human hands. Many earth scientists express this by stating that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans….
Read More about Breakthrough Institute: An Ecomodernist ManifestoLocal Exchange Systems: Designing Community Initiatives A discussion paper on Alternate Economics to Strengthen Local Economy and Facilitate Sustainable Adaptation Mihir Mathur & Mithika D’Cruz – Watershed Organization Trust, Pune Abstract Economic Globalization in its current form is a centralising juggernaut which often causes large-scale resource depletion in remote eco-systems, unpredictable price variations in essential commodities…
Read More about Mihir Mathur: Local Exchange SystemsThe Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University The Future of Humanity Institute is a leading research centre looking at big-picture questions for human civilization. The last few centuries have seen tremendous change, and this century might transform the human condition in even more fundamental ways. Using the tools of mathematics, philosophy, and science, we explore…
Read More about Three Leading Think-tanks Studying Global CrisesVijay Kundaji, Bangalore Notes Badanavalu is 10 kilometers from Nanjangud along the road to Chamarajnagar in Mysuru (Mysore) District of Karnataka. In 1927, a Khadi and Gramodyog Center was established here by Dalit women and Gandhian activists, which later grew to enlist many hundred workers, producing close to 50,000 lbs of handspun cotton yarn by…
Read More about Badanavalu Satyagraha – A ReportHarry Lehmann, Sudhir Chella Rajan Co-authors: Sneha Annavarapu, Claudia Kabel, Christian Löwe, Astrid Matthey (Indo-German Expert Group on Green and Inclusive Economy) Green Economy has been recognized by the Rio+20 Summit as “one of the important tools available for achieving sustainable development”. It is emphasized that Green Economy should “contribute to eradicating poverty as well as sustained…
Read More about Sustainable Lifestyles: Pathways and Choices for India and GermanyThe International Journal of the Commons (IJC) is an initiative of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). As an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, the IJC is dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively. These resources may be part of the natural world…
Read More about The International Journal of the Commons (IJC)New Report Explores The Commons as a Paradigm to Align Movements David Bollier, Shareable.net The proliferation of activist initiatives calling for systemic change around the world has never been more impressive. Yet collaborations among like-minded organizations, projects and movements have been disappointingly modest. As neoliberal economics and policies tighten their grip on American society—notwithstanding the dismal…
Read More about Report: A New Alignment of Movements?Ecological Agriculture in India – Scientific Evidence on Positive Impacts and Successes Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA) Note on the book by by Kavitha Kuruganti of ASHA: Very often, when ecological agriculture (whether it goes by the name of organic farming or natural farming or bio-dynamic farming) approaches are advocated for large scale replication…
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