Shrishtee Bajpai, from Global Tapestry of Alternatives,reveals how local struggles for self-determination connect across cultures and what is being done to weave a 'pluriverse' of possibilities rooted in social and ecological justice www.populationbalance.org/podcast/shri...

🌊 Fourth Indus River walk, 28th-31st August 2025 The fourth Indus River walk by Kalpavriksh and Snow Leopard Conservancy India trust was hosted on the banks of river Indus close to Shaara village where the team camped for 3 nights.

▶️ ICYMI: Watch the latest seminar from our Strengthening Democracy: A Research-Practice Exchange series, Expanding the Demos: How Do Nonhumans Have Political Agency? with Lakshmi Venugopal and @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social 📺 Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=eM9H3LzkpUw&feature=youtu.be

River Parliament: A Sacred Confluence Speaks Out - a meeting of South Asian rivers, sharing plight, strategising how to be free - darknlight.com/projects/sho... @robmacfarlane16.bsky.social @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social

What can #indigenous communities contribute to overcoming the global polycrisis? Their struggles and their ways of living and organizing provide a roadmap for the future, as @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social argues: berlinergazette.de/autonomy-for... #PluriverseOfPeace

Everyday ritual of seeking inspiration from nature to write! #writing #naturewriting #poems

The law of the land is walk gently, slowly, and being awe struck at everything around us. Learning from yellow throated longclaw 😀

Lovers singing a song ❤️

What opens up in us when we are seen by eyes that are not just human. What sort of infinite is opened? One begins to dissolve in fluid, translucent and another shape of awareness. From one of the spectacular evenings of quiet drizzle by grey clouds, cicada chorus, sharp winds, shy full moon.

We would like to invite you to the launch of ‘We Value our Traditional Governance Systems’, on 30 January 2025, 4 pm - 5.30 pm, a declaration by several Adivasi and other traditional communities in India. Register us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Join us for our 4th episode with wonderful @SumanaSiliguri on 27th Jan, 1PM GMT. Registration link globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_...

Earthy Governance and Inter-Species Justice-looking forward to this conversation with TACC along with @ashishkothari.bsky.social . We hope to explore dimensions of this article that we wrote news.mongabay.com/2024/10/if-a... Register here:https://evo.re/tacc

Nothing like spending a winter morning in dry deciduous forests looking for tigress and her cubs and eventually finding them in all their playful glory. No better way to start the new year with the most precious humans and non-humans. #NewYear2025 #wildlife #NewYear #photography

2024 has been a difficult year for many communities across the world. GTA continues to work in weaving a world (many worlds) of solidarity, care and conviviality. Here is a review of our activities globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:updat...

Last blog post of this year - "Like a vanishing dewdrop"- Ikkyu, Tagore and Indus River . Reflections from many streams! Hope you enjoy reading. medium.com/@shrishtee/l... #nature #environment #naturewriting #rivers #philosophy

KV members at @Pagdandiworld with Dr. Asad Rahmani at launch of his new book Living with Birds @ashishkothari.bsky.social

Major new research finds “shockingly” fast changes to flows of Earth’s c. 3 million rivers, mapped across 35 years. “Rivers are dynamic and beautiful beasts & humans should never take them for granted or squander the resources they provide us with.” (Hannah Cloke) www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/c...

Lovely to see 3 wolves today at Kadbanwadi, Maharashtra, this one with what seems to be a Chinkara (Indian gazelle) bone. @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social @arnazk.bsky.social

Just looking through darkness for some light every moment, everyday!

The issue with large scale solar and generally with false solutions to the crises! india.mongabay.com/2024/12/sola...

In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative? How do we go beyond Trump, Modi, Putin, Macron etc, so-called democratic leaders, towards real people power? scroll.in/article/1075...

scroll.in/article/1075... @davidwengrow.bsky.social @ashishkothari.bsky.social

Spent some beautiful days last week walking, birding, and learning in one of the most precious landscapes, Kachchh. Possibly one of its kind in the whole world. Photos from a landscape which is being proposed for a so -called large scale ‘green’ energy project. #nature #naturephotography

An evening bloomed As the wasp struggled and the grasshopper counted its last while a spectator marvelled! Kutch, Gujarat

Don't rush! Find a moment of joy looking at hundreds of cranes passing through a waning crescent! Morning at Chari-Dhand in Kachchh, Gujarat. #nature #naturephotography

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Excited to host our third episode and we will be joined by Åsa, Francis, and John. They will share about the different ways of communicating with the forests, speaking from the Sámi tribe's traditions as well as from scientific perspectives of forest intelligence and sentience.

The Indian desert gerbil kept popping out of tiny burrows, as we walked along the ancient city of Dholavira, the Harappan civilisation's southern centre that was inhabited for the period between 3000-1500 BCE.

Let's keep afloat in these scary times.