Bhoomi International Conference 2019 - In Search of Wellbeing
Organised by
Bangalore, India
Our International Partners
USA, Ladakh & Mexico
We invite you to participate with pioneering thinkers, activists, educators and other concerned citizens to promote learning and positive action to live with ecological wisdom on our Planet.
This Conference is for you…
- If you are an educator, student or parent concerned about the environment we live in.
- If you belong to an organisation that wishes to be part of the solution.
- If you are concerned about the ecological disasters that await us - like water famines and floods, children getting addicted to social media, globalised big business or climate change and many others.
Participate in positive action…
We need positive thinking and collaboration for meaningful action…
This conference will focus on two themes:
- Seeing the whole picture by decoding our economic system and its effects on our individual and societal wellbeing.
- Beginning shifts in learning communities - bringing together many thinkers and doers who have focused on re-thinking education.
Meet inspiring thinkers and doers – our speakers
Devinder Sharma
Agriculture, food and trade policy analyst, India
Rebecca Martusewicz
Professor of Education, USA
Dr Erach Barucha
Aseem Srivastava
Environmental economist and author, India
About Bhoomi Conferences…
Bhoomi Network has organised national and international conferences on themes related to education for sustainable living. Since its first conference in 2009 on Food, Health and Climate Change Bhoomi has focused on highlighting many fundamental issues for ecological wisdom that need to be given more importance in our society today.
Bhoomi Network and Bhoomi College are units of KNA Foundation for Education, a not-for-profit organisation (estd. 1995) which also runs the Prakriya Green Wisdom School.
About Local Futures, our International Conference Partner
Local Futures, founded by Helena Norberg Hodge, with its offices in the US, Mexico and Ladakh, is a pioneer of the new economy movement. Local Futures has been raising awareness for four decades about the need to shift direction - away from dependence on global monopolies, and towards de-centralised, regional economies.
Local Futures has focussed on “Economics of Happiness” as an alternative to economics for materialistic growth alone. It has conducted a series of conferences around the world titled “Economics of Happiness” and will be anchoring this theme at the Bhoomi Conference 2019.
About Youth for Seva, our Local Partner
Youth for Seva is a nation wide volunteering movement which aims to create positive change agents in the society through the culture of volunteering. The youths are inspired to volunteer and thus serve their community through the social sector.
