Sustainable Model Village
Another story from Annie Leonard The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap.
Govardhan Eco Village, situated in the Sahyadri mountains near Mumbai, is a model ISKCON farming community and retreat center.
We are completely sure that many of you remember Annie Leonard’s presentation on the Story of Stuff. It might not address all the contemporary issues our society has to face, but it certainly gets to the point about some of them.
Of course it is much more than the figures show. Clicking on the link below, you may have some perception on global production, consumption, emission and pollution. Second by second… To watch the World Food Clock click here. (Showed in several pages.)
You may watch a short film on ploughing in Krishna Valley. It is a 12-minute footage on sustainable agriculture worth to see it once in live…
I thought it is worth giving a detailed answer to our reader’s timely question, which I reckon may sound interesting to many of us.
Intensive meat and dairy production is having an increasingly devastating impact on human society and the environment, according to the Meat Atlas that has been published just recently by Friends of the Earth Europe and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Landscape in Krishna Valley at the time of its foundation, back in 1993 was quite similar like that of outside its territory: huge areas of arable land with some tree lines. Today’s agriculture aimed at small-scale, sustainable farming has established a mosaic-structured landscape on the whole terrain of Krishna Valley, which are apparent if you […]
A few days ago I got a letter from a friend of ours, a loyal reader of our website. The question was: “Do you always dig your garden? Which side do you take in the debate on whether to dig or not to dig?” The up-to-dateness of the question inspired me to come up with […]
There is a huge misunderstanding that we have to lack fresh vegetables from the garden or tray from the balcony during winter. Naturally, we have to grow most of high-nutrient tubers and root-crops in general growing period, nonetheless, vegetables that can be produced in wintertime may be used as complement food, one that supplements our […]