“Being sustainable is no longer enough. (We) need to create diverse regenerative cultures, ecosystems and facilitate design for humans with nature rather than against it. Whole systems thinking is the vehicle for regenerative design. The sooner we get there the sooner we will be able to heal the current human - nature communities.” - Himanshu Arteev, Co-founder, Ananas Design
Yesterday, the planetary #carbon concentration was 416 parts per million while the temperature in Delhi, India was 40°. Last year in 2019, we emitted 36.8 billion tonnes of carbon. Hear Abhilasha Purwar, Co-founder & CEO, Blue Sky Analytics for #OurClimateSolutions series by SELCO Foundation and India Climate Collaborative. She believes, “Unless we pour all our energy, and capital into solving this today, I fear no amount of effort will save us a decade from now.
Pratiti Priyadarshini, has been working for the last 10 years at Foundation for Ecological Security to connect practice, theory, and policy for better governance of natural resources, especially water.
Minimalism is gaining momentum as a way of life for sustainable living. Phaneesh Krishna, who is 27-years-old, left his IT job to work for Ragi Kana -a socio-cultural platform for encouraging sustainable practices and RRAN (Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network) - an organization working for water conservation and rejuvenation of traditional biodiverse and multi-cropping systems for farmers and the environment.
Ahila, a mother of 2 children, is the Joint Director at Rural Organization For Social Education. She believes in order to achieve true sustainable development, it is important to work with the marginal farmers and women in the agrarian sector. Working at ROSE, she has indigenous knowledge and has designed a sustainable alternative farming system to cope-up with the climate change challenges.
“It is the small efforts by all of us as individuals and as communities to make our surroundings clean and safe, which will help us live in a healthy, sustainable environment,” says, Mayurika, a young Community Action Member at Mahila Housing Trust.SELCO Foundation & India Climate Collaborative bring to you #OurClimateSolutions for a month-long campaign featuring young leaders voicing their solutions and forward for climate action.