By Bhavani Prakash It is a rare opportunity indeed to meet someone who deeply understands the connect between ourselves and the living planet, and is taking direct action in terms of mobilising people into planting millions of trees, whilst simultaneously giving the practical tools to profoundly change one’s own inner wellbeing. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder [...]
By Bhavani Prakash One of the things that easily catches one’s attention during a train journey in India is the so-called ‘goods’ trains that ferry coal to and fro many parts of the nation. While railways have provided a vast network of sustainable transport options for millions of Indians every day, it is still predicated on [...]
“Power Shift is the name of an annual youth summit which has been held in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Other Power Shift Conferences are also being organised by members of the International Youth Climate Movement including Africa, Japan and India. The focus of the events is on climate change policy. [...]
By Bhavani Prakash Zeitgeist roughly translates from German into “spirit of the times.” The movie Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, directed by Peter Joseph was released globally on January 25th, 2011 as a sequel to “Zeitgeist“(2007) and is available to everyone free for non-commercial use as a public commons. I haven’t watched the 2007 movie at the [...]
By Bhavani Prakash The effect of climate change is often reflected in erratic weather patterns. This was revealed in Sindh province of Pakistan last year in the form of devasting floods. According to a PBS report, ” Even today, four months on, hundreds of thousands of people in the southern Sindh province are still in tent [...]
By Bhavani Prakash The end of December is a not only a good time to reflect upon the year that has passed, but also to take stock of why we are here on this planet as human beings. “Do we have a higher end?” is a question to which every individual, every society, every civilisation [...]
Asha Edmund is an award winning Singaporean singer and composer, steadily making a name in the international dance music scene. Earlier she shared with us some of her favourite Songs For the Environment. She’s back with a bang against the backdrop of the Climate Change talks at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico, with her choice of [...]
The UK non-profit organisation, Oxfam has released a series of videos that show how much of a day-to-day reality Climate Change is for the people of coastal areas of Bangladesh. It’s interesting that all those featured here are women, young and old. A Treehugger article brought out the reality that women are more likely to [...]
An important eco-film making a debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival at Utah, USA is Climate Refugees,” by Michael Nash who also directed the critically acclaimed movie on oil and biofuels called “Fuel.” The festival is running between 21st and 31st of January 2010. According the movie spotlight by the Sundance Film Festival 2010 which features “Climate [...]
The Climate Scoreboard is a new tool (using the C-ROADS model created by Sustainability Institute, MIT, and Ventana Systems) which represents the long-term climate impacts (till 2100) of proposals which are currently under consideration in the Copenhagen negotiations to produce a global climate treaty. It shows the Business as Usual scenarios, current proposals and the goals for target emissions. This scoreboard [...]
