2018

Dear Friends, Gunter Pauli was born in 1956. Pauli has rich academic credentials. He has been a resident of Japan since 1994 and spends considerable time initiating and monitoring projects around the world. He has been active as an entrepreneur setting up a dozen companies, a lecturer in many universities and commentator on culture, science,…

Dear Friends, Arthur Koestler (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, from his residence in Britain, Koestler espoused many political causes, and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies and…

Dear Friends, John Muir (21 April 1838 -  24 December 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States. In this month, we are giving some of his quotable…

Dear Friends, Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for…

Dear Friends, Satish Kumar (born 9 August 1936) has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is the founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international center for ecological studies. He insists that reverence for nature should…

Dear Friends, Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer…

Dear Friends, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in Tibet. At the age of two, the child was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama. In 1959,…

Dear Friends, Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a multifaceted personality - French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau…

Dear Friends, Sri Aurobindo (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) a philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution. His main literary…