Hello Folks, A few weeks ago, a bunch of us had met at Cubbon park, to (also) discuss what people would like to do on World Environment Day. While things have been slow to progress (as tree planting is entirely a volunteer driven effort) there has been some progress off late. More on that later. GREEN had been invited by the kind folks at RMZ Corp to have a stall at their campus. It has been 2 days of hectic fun interacting with IT people - a significant chunk of them green thumbs who were very interested in the #BambooPyramid and in the upcoming Self Discovery & Systems Thinking course at Coop Forest on June 17th and 18th! From relevant producers in the network, we had acquired many products for the specific purpose of promoting those entrepreneurs and their products. We sold seeds, jaggery, cold-pressed oils and the red rice porridge (khichdi) mix, all with the phone number and photo of the entrepreneurs themselves from whom it was acquired for the special purpose o
A 1 day workshop on the topic " Spiritual Organic Farming Systems " was conducted at Dodballapur. This blog post is the 'minutes' of the meeting. There was some delay for all people to reach the venue on their own. The tragedy was that the person due to whom the course was delayed was stuck somewhere in the vicinity and was struggling for nearly 40 minutes to reach the venue. Another person joined 15 minutes later. Due to delays, we skipped some theory parts and went direct into action. The theory part we skipped, in hindsight, may have been some of the most important foundations to have been covered - it involved vedic philosophy of reality, of doing objective science, and how modern objective science has also validated that the vedic theory of creation may be right. By 11:00 we all finished learning Transcendental Meditation. We had some more lectures in pipeline planned about Brihadaranyaka, but that was skipped too due to delay, because we had to ha