Polls progress: Phase 5 campaign to end soon. Phase 6 and 7 campaigns peak up.
NCOL – National Cooperative Organics Ltd, Bharat Organics got its Managing Director, Vipul Mittal. Hope his team takes NF to scale in its true spirit.
Now, it is the Gates Foundation soon. Pivotal Ventures may become another large global philanthropy with USD 12.5 Billion endowment. New consortiums and coalitions of philanthropies in the making!
India is 56% farmland; 20% forests. Not counting the ‘green’ outside of these two. We are seeing the disappearance of diverse trees on a massive scale, even in a short time, say the last 3-4 years. Mostly because of changed land use, cultivation practices, including irrigation. Block plantations, mostly mono, may be increasing. It is not climate change adaptation and mitigation.
We are sure we consume more than what we need on many dimensions. Many items. Day-in and day-out. We waste. We throw it away. We stack in the corner. Racks are filled with items which we do not use or rarely use. Can we reduce natural resource consumption? Fossil fuels? Can we reduce footprint in the environment? Food miles? Can we recycle? Reuse?
Do we know how to teach? Participatorily? Practice-centric. Can we have stories, songs, videos, pictures, exercises, games, cases, challenges, practice of tools-skills, homeworks, individual-group works, teaching by the students, river flows, interactive lectures, tests-quizzes, role plays, simulations, pre-reading, post-references, writing, puzzles, creative-casual-routine and exams? Can we combine, hybridize?
Most of us want stories that feed our biases. We do not want our biases challenged. Then, how do we craft stories of truth to get some traction? Do we really want reports of truth that serve the public, which provide the public good? Can they take us to our time, energy, and resource investments that make our collective lives our planet better, with reduced insecurity, disease, and eased poverty-vulnerability-marginalization? Can they reduce inequity? Can they include us in managing our destinies and destinies of next gen? Can we have more trends covered, rather than events? Can we cover the issues with both opinions dispassionately, truthfully, but humanely? In simple words, language. Transcending language, word play to numbers. Basic economics. Value-chains. Culture. Spirituality. Wars, unrest et al get covered. What about suicides, drugs, alochol, smoking, etc.? Public service quality? Education, schooling? Food, nutrition, health, and hospitals? Climate crisis, action? Failures, unfulfilled promises? Social responsibilities? Justice?
How do we care for our well-being? Coping with stress, recovering from setbacks, having satisfying relationships, safe and supportive work ecosystem-hygiene, being productive. Can we be in harmony with ourselves? Can we be resilient? Can we be in sync with our teams? Can we question our assumptions, beliefs, and values? Can we listen? Can we be in the present? Can we have spaces of being and working together? Can we have well-articulated and shared vision, values, results, and approaches? And refreshed often one-to-one, in small teams et al. Can we?
Can we improve our lifestyles? Can we improve our diets? Reduced processed foods. Reduced fats, sugar, and salt. Increased access to nutrients, micronutrients. Variety, diversity in foods. Plenty of vegetables, legumes, proteins, and amino acids. Fruits, nuts included. Milk products. Lots of water. Significantly reduced carbohydrates and cereals. Being active with some regular exercises. Can we try? Why not?
Yes, we can. If we try, practice, coexist, and flow. Towards our 360 deg well-being. In N? In sowakayoga for 7L.
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