ABOUT US
Down To Earth is a product of our commitment to make changes in the way
we manage our environment, protect health and secure livelihoods and
economic security for all. We believe strongly that we can and must do things
differently. Our aim is to bring you news, perspectives and knowledge to
prepare you to change the world. We believe information is a powerful driver
for the new tomorrow.
Down To Earth was started by environmentalist Anil Agarwal, who had a
dream and commitment to make us aware of our challenges and believed that
we could be the change in the world. It started in 1992 as a print magazine
– our first cover was the ecological globalisation in the inter-connected world.
Since then we have come a long way (or not) as the world is more aware of
the dangers of climate change and yet even less prepared to deal with
challenges of local and global environmental management.
Down To Earth is available in print – every fortnight we bring you detailed
analysis and perspectives on the world around us. You can also get this print
edition in digital form – download it on your IPAD or get a pdf copy. Like all
publishers all over the world we are struggling to get the balance between our
website and print edition. But we believe we need both – and we hope you will
agree. We ensure that our print/digital subscribers get exclusive content –
including the monthly children’s magazine Gobar Times.
The team at
Down To Earth is skilled and passionate. It knows you crave for
new ideas; you want to know what is changing in our world that is for the
good. It also knows that we all have a duty to hope. We look at ways people
are working in forests, farms and factories to make a difference. We try and
tease out how these small experiments in our world’s development laboratory
can be scaled up. In our experience scaling up invariably requires a change in
some policy, rule or regulation. Our objective is to provide this understanding
for impact.
We know we make a difference. We know this because our articles are used
to push policy; used to challenge status quo; used to spread the word about
what is possible. We know you believe in our independence. We have your
trust. Our information has purpose. It is credible.
We cannot sustain our work without your help. One, we need your
involvement in taking our ideas further. We do not have the marketing muscle
to get into each house; we are also limited by language. But we know if you
can be our messenger, multiplier and our friend, you can spread the word, use
our information; take the word to action; bring us back the news about this
impact. Help us to do what seems so impossible: turn the tide so that our
present and future is secure.
Two, and I will be blunt about this we need your support in terms of
subscriptions. We cannot do without this. We hope you will believe in us and
will contribute to
Down To Earth . The link to our subscription options is here.
I will look forward to hearing from you
Sunita Narain
(
sunita@cseindia.org)
