Together, 33 years.
Arjun Ved arrives. At home.
Royal Challengers Bangalore wins the IPL title. After 18 years of waiting. Punjab Kings are runners-up. Celebrations in Bengaluru led to stampede-like conditions around Chinnaswamy stadium, and death of eleven people, mostly teenagers. 3 lakh people turned up to the stadium with a 35,000 capacity.
Our Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity co-awardee, a globally renowned soil scientist, Prof. Rattan Lal, is now the Global Ambassador of regenagri. To promote soil health, guide standards development, and support advancing sustainable farming and environmental restoration worldwide. Regenagri is the world’s foremost regenerative agriculture standard. It stands for innovative agroecosystems to restore degraded soils, mitigate climate change, strengthen biodiversity, improve the environment and advance Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations while producing safe, healthy, accessible and nutritious food for all. Prof RL is a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration (Lal Carbon Center) at The Ohio State University; previously, President of the International Union of Soil Sciences; a recipient of the World Food Prize, Japan Prize, World Agriculture Prize, MS Swaminathan Award, and the Borlaug Award.
Prof. Mahendra Dev is appointed as the Chairman of Economic Advisory Council for Prime Minister of India.
Cycle, bicycle, and pedal cycle. Two billion cycles in use worldwide. Chain-driven cycle was developed only in the 19th century. The bicycle is extraordinarily efficient biologically, mechanically. An inexpensive, fast, healthy and environmentally-friendly mode of transport. Cycling requires as much power as walking requires. But, cycling can cover 3x the distance. Intense cycle use is coming down. 60% cycles are from China. We have various types, categories of cycles. Geared, motorized included. Child, adult cycles. Man, woman cycles. Sports. Mountain. Can we continue to walk, jog, run or cycle?
Environment. Natural Environment. Natural. Ecological. Biotic, abiotic. All living species, climate, weather, natural resources. Natural is a continuum. There is loss in natural, due to human behaviour – climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Plastics are being added up. Urbanization, deforestation going hand-in-hand are impacting ‘natural’ significantly. The planet is warming, and warming rapidly. Can we free the planet from plastic pollution? Can we fight climate change? Can we cool the planet? Can we go to scale with more trees, multi-layered vegetation 365 days, private and beyond the private lands, water et al, deepened, saturated, and scaled natural farming, natural living, as default? Changed curriculums, policy changes, human, technical and financial resource availability? Extension, handholding, and troubleshooting peer agents? Can we offer the support for N-learning facilitation, apprenticeship, practice, on the scale?
Can we transcend to natural gradually, can we support those who would like to transcend?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. In harmony, in sync. In N? prakrtidharmayoga for 7L.