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A 10 month apprenticeship course at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, Kerala
Learn the critical dimensions of the current water crisis in India and emerging developments in water policy and regulation from experts.
Intern with an ongoing social change initiative for a month. Gain a dynamic understanding of the pertinent issues faced by today’s society.
Ted Trainer writes: The prize has gone to three people studying how the poor can derive more benefit from existing “development” practices. It sees no reason to question the existing market and growth-driven economy and its derivative, development theory. It doesn’t threaten the massively unjust and environmentally destructive global systems that keep billions in poverty.
The fact that the language of localism is being increasingly co-opted by authoritarians around the world is itself a sign of localism’s appeal. Left uprooted and adrift by the globalized economy, people are desperate for a sense of connection: to one another, to the living world, to a place and culture that’s familiar to them.
