We need positive thinking and collaboration for meaningful action…
This conference will focus on two themes:
Agriculture, food and trade policy analyst, India
Professor of Education, USA
Environmental economist and author, India
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.
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.
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.