Life Breath
I’ve been building with natural materials now for 11 years. What started out as an exercise in seeing how far I could go to create […]
Holistic Thinking
Education for Essentials
What is most essential for children to learn considering the undeniable reality that our biosphere is in peril? First and foremost they will need to […]
Networking Together for a Better World
“Everything that exists or has ever existed, every idea that can be thought about, every datum that is true – every dharma, in the language […]
Nature and Human Beings are One
In his talk at Bhoomi Network’s Yugaantar Conference, Satish Kumar says that the name Yugaantar is very symbolic of what we are experiencing today; the […]
Musings on Yugantar
Before we look at foundations for an ecological era, we need to re-visit the seed ideas of our modern civilisation and the Industrial age, says […]
Listening to Tagore
Aseem Shrivastava connects Tagore’s perspectives on nature with the crying need today for a philosophy for an Ecological age. It is fascinating to see how […]
Livelihoods & Deadlihoods
Ashish Kothari writes on how we need to break the false divisions between work and leisure and make both more meaningful. Economic development and modernity […]
Issue 25: Smart Cities or Regenerative Cities?
Editorial: What do want? Smart Cities or Regenerative Cities Very often a word, a phrase or an idea can mislead us, or mislead even several […]
To Save Our Cities, Put Children First
What’s the universal design principle that can regenerate our cities, make them great? Kid-friendliness, says architect Jason McLennan. This article talks largely about American cities […]
Green Cities and Smart Cities
The definition of “urban sustainability” overlooks key facets of a city’s ecological footprint (such as food systems, resource consumption, production related greenhouse gas emissions, air […]