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Photo credit: Saad Faruque By Laura Ross-Perry This year, Earth Day celebrated it’s 43rd anniversary on April 22nd. Across the globe, people gathered to pay respect to the planet, discuss the current state of the earth, and talk about ways in which we can improve how we treat it in order to also improve the [...]

This week, we want to bring you exciting updates from the Wiser.org community in India! WiserIndia is supporting some major initiatives which help us in connecting with communities more effectively and cover issue areas through these efforts. A couple of them are national and some younger initiatives are still regional at the moment, but nonetheless making great [...]

Celeste, Wiser.org’s community manager shares her thoughts on her recent trip to India, which included some incredible experiences, part of which included a broken elbow after hiking. Here she recounts a short story of her visit. India really is an incredible country I came here in early November for our yearly staff and editors gathering [...]

By Suzanne York Original article posted at Six Degrees of Population. Mention India and many contradictory images are often conjured up – poverty and Rajput castles, rich and exotic foods and begging mothers and children, the Himalayan mountains and Rajasthani deserts. But there is no contradiction on the importance of the Indian monsoon. Indian agriculture [...]

Understanding and Adopting Your Social Responsibility We have often attend lectures, meet ups, seminars, and symposiums informing us about the big challenging issues plaguing society. Experts enlighten us in their talks. We sometimes keep up with the jargons and often decide to educate ourselves on the issues later. We gain knowledge, go home thinking we [...]

by Aakriti Sinha Mahindra & Mahindra invited social game changers and enthusiasts to their Spark the Rise’s–Be The Spark Meetup in New Delhi, as a part of their three-city tour in India. The conversation was moderated by Yatin Thakur of Wiser.org, India. The keynote speaker of the event, Professor Madhukar Shukla, Chairperson, Center for Ecology [...]