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Ms. Nirmala Nair

Ms. Nirmala Nair
Founder, School of Practical Sustainability, Cape Town

To be able to sustain oneself well one needs to be deeply in love with life, it is that love that leads to explore deeper questions. Especially when the world of matter stifles the well-being, muffles the inner voice and forces one to succumb to live life as a sheep. The wild woman wanderer self in me have escaped the fate of being a sheep (at a vast price) I was fortunate not being in a formal school for the first 12 years of my life. Subsequent degrees I may have obtained, in retrospect was all a waste of my time. I have navigated from many shades of development and change work. For the last 20 years the focus is on local adaptation - I use the word adaptation not exactly in the linear climate Science dictionary sense. Talk to me if you want to know the difference.

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Programme Offered

The course provides an orientation and introduction to the Green Economy in the Indian context.  Designed and offered as a stand-alone hybrid programme consisting of 8 online interactive sessions and a weeklong bootcamp. This course was initially designed and offered  in the international township of Auroville The course is offered at the Bhoomi College in 2023. The schedule of the course at Bhoomi College with the boot camp being held at the Bhoomi College campus is provided below.

Registrations are open for the Sept-end commencement cohort of the programme at the Bhoomi College in Bangaluru.

Please register using the QR code.bhoomi-registration-link

Critical Perspective on Green Economy:  This course is designed to explore Green Economy (GE) from a critical perspective. The course is structured as short classes thoughtfully put together drawing insights from a wide-ranging field, as well as synthesizing some of the complicated information for easy grasp without being a technical expert.