Cauvery Row: When Source is the Cause
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are sparring over the dwindling Cauvery water. Kodagu, where the Cauvery begins its journey, is witnessing landscape changes which is impacting […]
Barefoot Hydrogeologists: The Next Generation
Kunti and Priya have come a long way since they first undertook responsibility for their groundwater. I first met Kunti and Priya at a meeting […]
Connecting Beyond Boundaries: Nadi Festival
How Shillong’s Nadi Festival used River Systems to mediate policy between 5 countries. Maps draw up a political boundary, but people living for generations close […]
Peak Oil, Transition Towns and Cities of Tomorrow
With the fossil fuel era coming to a close, the future calls for a radical and drastic reduction of our energy consumption and the equitable […]
“Transition Towns is the only ethically defensible thing to do”
Transition Network is an approach which is about what a community-led response to climate change, the end of the age of cheap energy and the […]
The Sharing Economy: Capitalism’s Last Stand?
Is the sharing economy the first part of a New Economic Paradigm or is it capitalism’s latest trick to survive at all costs? Arthur De […]
Transition Stories from Rural India
The word ‘Transition’ has become a buzz word amongst those who are concerned about sustainable living, largely through the concept of Transition Towns which began […]
Issue 27: Yugantar
Editorial: To live is to share. Whoever or whatever we are, sharing is inevitable – we at least share the air we breathe, the space […]
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 […]