Gandhi at 150: A contemporary fable

Gandhi’s personal lifestyle choices are not what make him crucial to the future of our species. What matters more is to understand why …

Gandhi at 150: The pilgrim's progress

Environmental protection was not a direct agenda in Gandhian programmes. But most of his ideas can be directly related to environmental protection

Gandhi’s prescription for a healthy life

On the 151st birth anniversary of the father of the nation, Down To Earth presents excerpts from Mahatma Gandhi: The Great Indian Way by late …

Why I should be tolerant

In this exclusive extract from the book, Narain says the most powerful nations would like to believe there is no other side. So, there is no …

An idea that lasted

CSE and DTE have continued the tradition of bringing out an annual report card on the environment for four decades; the latest edition has …

`Bioregionalism could become a global movement'

French architect Didier Prost is an advocate of bioregionalism, which calls for a renewed focus on local people and knowledge to innovate for …

Gandhi on capitalism

A rare interview extracted from 'An Interview with Gandhi' by French Journalist Charles Petrasch, which he took at London in 1931 (Courtesy: …

Gandhi as a human ecologist

Gandhi-Luthuli Chair Professor, School of Politics, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Building a true green economy

The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth

‘People often talk of the Gandhian model of development, but if such a model is genuinely Gandhian then it is not about development’

Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection. However what he said and did makes him an environmentalist. His writings are replete …

Time for new environmentalism

Wishing all our readers a happy World Environment Day, with the hope that the world will continue to work towards paying more than mere lip …

African philosophy ‘Ubuntu’ can help us fight climate crisis

Indigenous philosophy focuses on altruism; climate impact on developing world greater, so alternates to Western environmentalism needed