Welcome to Homo Giftus
Sarita kare na paan, vriksh na fal chaakhe kadi, Khet na khave dhaan, parhit neepjey sekhra The river never drinks its own water. The tree […]
The Way of Gifts
Other Worlds, a woman-driven education and movement building collaborative offers many essays and insights in their website www.otherworldsarepossible.org. This article shows that other worlds are […]
Issue 14: Good for Us… Good for the Planet
Editorial: 9 Ways Good for Us… Good for the Planet From the early years of the 20th century, there have been several great visionaries who realized […]
FOOD Beautiful FOOD
Food from the trees and vegetarian food grown organically are an ecological imperative. – Sathish Kumar Big problems are consequences of small actions. Global warming […]
The Transition Initiative
Changing the scale of change – Jay Griffiths A while ago, I heard an American scientist address an audience in Oxford, England, about his work […]
A New Agenda
For humans, local adaptation is not work for a few financers and a few intellectual and political hotshots. It is work for everybody, requiring everybody’s intelligence. […]
Issue 13: Crafting our Future
Editorial: Crafting our future There is an old story about a girl and her red shoes which illustrates well our modern civilisation’s struggles with a machine-dominated […]
The Joy of Making
Re-engaging with the raw materials from which our lives are shaped is a potent reminder of the difference between what is real and what is […]
By Hand: The Looms that can Lead India
The artisan weaving cotton textiles on the handloom has been unfairly relegated to a peripheral status in the textile industry. Not only does handloom still […]
Where the HAND has EARS
Everything ‘speaks’, and to those who know how to ‘hear’, craft is the powerful embodiment of the mystical life force, wrote Amadou Hampate Ba The […]