Humanity faces serious challenges in the coming decades. With rise in economic activity, there has been increased environmental degradation and adverse social impacts. Today, we face some of the gravest challenges. The “climate” situation has moved from being called “climate change” to “climate emergency” threatening to further worsen in the …

The future is green and it is inclusive or there is no future.  As we turn the decade and the new year, the one lingering image of the past year is of the FUTURE – our youth demanding that governments and national leaders that hold power and money either change …

Development is a course of action that marks growth, progress, positive change in the physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components of a community or region.  It also means effective utilisation of local resources by bringing the necessary institutional, structural and attitudinal change of the local population.  The idea of …

The story of India’s water crisis today is not an accidental occurrence. What is unfolding in front of us has been warned by both experts and practitioners several times over. By 2030, the crisis can deepen by 40% more if business as usual continues. The Central Ground Water Board in …

Are we killing the environment or is it killing us? When we look at what we eat and how we grow it, we find extensive evidence for damage both to our food (from pollution and soil depletion) and to our environment (from the toxicity of growing foods industrially). How what …