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Our daily conveniences are somebody else’s suffering

By Staff Reports | August 2, 2013

Jain nun

I grope my way up the stairs in near-complete darkness, unaccustomed to the uneven concrete floors and unexpected corners of the building I first entered only a few hours earlier, following a seven-hour bus ride from Jaipur, India. My only guide through the dark, labyrinthine hallways is the flowing, spotlessly white robe of the young Jain nun walking ahead of me. Finally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Spirit Tagged With: ascetics, DIY, Fred Pearce, hydroelectric power, India, Jainism, Mark Boyle, nonviolence

Letter from India: It takes a village

By Erik Curren | December 13, 2012

Gurgaon office tower

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. - Max Mueller Returning to the world's second-biggest nation after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Gandhi, globalization, India, population growth, Village, Village Life

Abandoning the middle class, governments lose legitimacy

By Erik Curren | September 28, 2011

Susan Sarandon

People who care about climate change and peak oil have long despaired of convincing their national governments to take decisive action or even, in some cases, to acknowledge that there's a problem. Now, the world's democracies seem to be losing the confidence of their citizens to deal with the economic crisis too. Following on the Arab Spring, the ouster of Gadaffi and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Adbusters, anti-corporate activism, India, Israel, Occupy Wall Street, plutocracy, youth protests

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