Earth Rights
Vandana Shiva writes about the inevitability of recognizing the Rights of Mother Earth, if we are to really pay heed to issues of human rights. […]
Ecological Wisdom
Trees are the Answer
An interview with Wangari Maathai For many years, before humanity became aware of the dangers of climate change, Wangari Maathai was advocating the planting of […]
Liberation Ecology
What keeps us creating, as societies, a world that we as individuals abhor, a world violating our deepest values and common sense? Why is poverty […]
Meeting Fukuoka San
Masanobu Fukuoka’s wisdom of naturaI farming appIies to aImost every aspect of life. Clad in a Japanese blue sarong, a bag of rice grains in […]
MIRRORING The GOOD LIFE
Along with reflections on his personal journey, the author articulates some of his co-ordinates for a Good Life. My eyes can’t help zooming into the […]
Education for Happiness
New ways to measure human wellbeing. THE TINY HIMALAYAN kingdom of Bhutan is an unlikely place for the birth of an international trend. Yet Bhutan […]
The Learning Curve
The most important discovery of the past two centuries is that we are joined in one fragile experiment, vulnerable to bad judgment, shortsightedness, greed and […]
What Counts – and What is Counted
Our instruments, which mostly measure what is easily counted rather than what matters most, often fail to take into consideration values of community, reverence, respect, […]
Unconscious, Unintended Learning – What we learn without trying to
Educational Planners design content for various courses- but do we take into account the power of what children learn unconsciously? While we human beings think, […]
ECOLOGY of Learning
Mechanizing an organic process of learning is like replacing a rich and diverse ecology with an unhealthy monoculture. A holistic understanding of education goes beyond any specific method […]