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Working in collaboration with Principal Madhu Sareen of Mahila Mandal, Big Med co-director Premilla Dixit has located and organized some of the most influential and environmentally progressive leaders in Udaipur's rich educational community. The new network is crystalizing under the title of "Educators for Environmental Education and Sustainable Development" and will be helping to pioneer green school audits and curricular transformation over the coming year. For more info, please click here . |
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Founded in the Thirties at Mahatma Gandhi's request, Udaipur's Mahila Mandal has educated tens of thousands of tribal and impoverished girls from the region's most disadvantaged communities. Today this inspiring school continues to pioneer the social frontier and is now starting to train its 1500 strong K~12 student body in environmental wisdom as well as trades and academic skills. Click on logo for more info... |
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This is a Project Heading note for the project to connect Mahila Mandal and Sulabh International. Basic Idea Sulabh has first-rate sustainable solutions to public sanitation systems. Mahila Mandal is a school for disadvantaged girls in Udaipur. A win-win project has been proposed to bring Sulabh and Mahila together. More information Contact
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This is a Project Heading note for the Ethical Feast insert to Greening India. Basic idea Model the Ethical Feast on an exclusive, high dollar, gastronome adventure tour. But instead of restricitng the sensual celebration of amazing food to a merely private gratification, we invite our guests on an immersive engagement with the world of ideas, issues, and opportunities in "right" food. For example: - All food is locally sourced from small, traditional growers. And we visit them and talk with them and perhaps even lend a hand.
- All food is prepared by hand in a homestyle fashion. And we participate in the preparation.
- The Feast(s) are a contribution to the communities that host them. We introduce ourselves to the community and exchange stories about our worlds.
- The profit from the Feast are invested in school gardens and traditional medicine gardens.
(these are initial thoughts to be extended and refined over time) We suggest a maximum of 30 people, the Feast takes place over 5 days in concert the with Greening India Festival. Based in Udaipur, and with some field feasts in regional settings (Valle, Jhadol, etc) . For more info and to get involved Contact
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Back in the Sixties and Seventies, the grassroots development community was afire with the buzzword "alternative tech". Creative compilations of elegant low tech solutions were being amassed by the Whole Earth Catalog in the US, the Center for Alternative Technology in the UK, and many other international organizations. It seemed we would soon enjoy an ever growing knowledge base and resource trove for community development workers around the world. |
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