by James H. Wandersee and Renee M. Clary Project your imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think of the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for [...]
Janet Unruh is a person who believes that everything can be recycled 100% – provided we learn how to design things properly and set up the right systems for materials recovery. With her knowledge and experience in manufacturing, having worked for the last decade in the truck manufacturing industry, she has founded “The Institute for [...]
We feature two articles here, both relating to how bird conservation in a relatively unknown area of Mangalajodi on Chilika lagoon in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa is being enabled through community participation and eco-tourism. Chilika lake, along the Bay of Bengal is India’s largest inland lake and Asia’s largest saltwater lagoon. Though recognised under the [...]
Anshu Gupta is a social innovator par excellence. He has not only identified social problems that are outside the radar screens of most NGOs and Government funding agencies, he has also been able to structure imaginative solutions to pressing social issues by recycling urban waste resources such as clothing and school materials. GOONJ (which means [...]
by Bhavani Prakash Jeremy Gratham, a top hedge fund manager at GMO has raised quite a few eyebrows. Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO) is a Boston-based asset management firm with more than US $107 billion under management as at December 2009. According to Wikipedia, “Grantham is regarded as a highly knowledgeable investor in various stock, bond, and [...]
