About Associated Projects

This section contains on going projects that began independently of the Pari Network but would like to continue an association with the Network. If you wish to add one of your own projects to this list then please write to Siraj Izhar at s-izhar@parinetwork.org or F. David Peat at dpeat@parinetwork.org

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Ongoing Associated Projects

Clean Air Island

Clean Air Island, a Society set up for the rejuvenation of urban spaces, has with support and participation of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, initiated action and carried out field projects since 2000 covering:
  1. vermiculture of public wet waste of 4 tons / day through deep burrowing earthworms, recycling about 5000 tons
  2. the use of Electric Vehicles to transport this waste from 7 to 8 sites daily and for watering roadside plants with sewage recycled water
  3. setting up an Enviro road with greening, road waste recycling and public awareness through environmental theatre
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Ecology and Eco-Villages

There is great concern about the damage we are doing to the planet, threats of global warming and global dimming, also the health of human societies. For these reasons many people are exploring such things as alternative energy sources, ecologically friendly farming and the creation of eco-villages. Some artists are also looking to ways in which their work can sensitize us to the environment.

We shall shortly be adding examples of an Eco-Village in Goa, India; one in New England; and the work of some artists at the RANE project in Falmouth, England.

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The Schweitzer Earth Corps

It is easy to grow hopeless today. How can we stop global warming or species decline? How can we gain economic justice in an era of global capitalism? How can we find inner calm in a postmodern world getting ever more frenetic? Yet, when idealism dies, we risk becoming either apathetic or cynical and egocentric. Students participating in the Schweitzer Earth Corps learn how to effect change, both within and without. They do so through a combination of experiential and academic studies, directed towards:
  • cultivating dynamic balance in their own lives;
  • encountering the other through reverence, a deep way of beholding that springs from a realization of oneness rather than division;
  • understanding the science of chaos and complexity and discovering how complex systems work—and how they can be transformed through the art of gentle action.
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