Aseem Srivastava
Aseem Shrivastava is an Indian Ecological Economist known for his critiques of unfettered capitalism and its impacts on the environment. He has written and spoken extensively about the global ecological crisis, emphasizing the need for deep structural changes in the global economy to address these challenges. He has been associated with various academic institutions and has been a voice in environmental and social debates both in India and internationally.
Balachandra Hegde
Balachandra Hegde is a Landscape Ecologist and practicing farmer from a remote village near Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. He is actively involved in wildlife and nature conservation across the Western Ghats for the last twenty-five years. He is presently working on understanding the impact of climate change on tropical forests and agroecosystems, with continuous monitoring in ecosystems.
He is also actively involved in developing nature-based holistic education facilities in a few schools of the Uttara Kannada district.
Ananthalakshmi Sitaraman
An educator by choice, Durga (Ananthalakshmi) Sitaraman is passionate about holistic education that fosters ecological consciousness in children. Holding a M.S. degree in Economics, she started her career in economic and statistical research. She has been working at Prakriya for the past 18 years, co-developing and co-holding a spectrum of practices and institutional policies that focus on humanising education and taking nature’s principles to the classrooms.
Rema Kumar
With over 25 years’ experience of teaching in schools in India, Rema Kumar is currently a Trustee of KNA Foundation for Education. Bhoomi College and Prakriya Green Wisdom School are both institutions run by the trust. These are two institutions which she has co-created, partnering in the vision of humanising education in tune with nature’s principles. Rema is also keenly involved in programmes on deep inner-work and institution-building and is a facilitator for the Sankalan Programmes.
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Bhoomi College
Bhoomi College is committed to joining the younger generation to co-create meaningful and empowering learning environments to address challenges for ecologically and socially sane living on Earth today.
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