Welcome to Green Life: Working towards a Sustainable Future
Green Life seeks to reflect the concerned citizen's perspective on the physical and natural environment. It relies on journalistic insight to report relevant research, best practice and community initiatives so that examples of sustainable ways of living may become easier to access and replicate. Such sharing also makes it possible to refine and improve these efforts in the true spirit of open societies.
Preserving the natural environment is one of the foremost concerns today and this is the philosophy guiding this web page. Industrial society has waged war on natural resources everywhere, creating destruction at various levels to supply ever greater levels of consumption. The need to maintain economic growth rates in a narrow sense has prompted governments and the corporate sector to ignore concerns regarding the environment. They are depriving future generations of a healthy future that is rightfully theirs.
This effort raises its voice, however small, against such mindless and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. It is edited by Gopal Anant,
a journalist and amateur photographer based in Chennai, India and it welcomes initiatives from like-minded individuals and institutions anywhere on the
planet to collaborate and report on these concerns. It celebrates nature,
which India is richly endowed with, by preserving what is left of it. We are
unrelenting in our opposition to conversion of natural habitat for industrial
use. Green Life advocates the use of alternatives, opposes all anthropogenic pressures on forests that threaten to alter their character and cause loss of biodiversity, campaigns for organic agriculture and conservation of wetlands through the involvement of local communities rather than giant bureaucracies.
The major concerns espoused on this page include sustainability, environmental protection and biodiversity conservation, organic agriculture,
rural development and urban renewal through best practices. We would like to
report on little-known facets of rural and urban India, which the mainstream
media finds unimportant or is unwilling to publish. If you have any good practice that can be highlighted here, please email the Editor.
