Now, ACT.

Many people have asked me, after presentations or via email, What can I do? Stories should be sparks and the listeners/readers, tinder. The last thing I want is for you to set A River Runs Again/Elemental India down and walk away wiping your hands clean. So, if you’re so inspired….

Here are some of the organizations I focused on in the book as well as others whose efforts I’ve come across in my research. No organization is perfect. I write and explore the efforts, successful and struggling both. So don’t consider this list an endorsement, necessarily, but an excellent starting point for you to make your own explorations and decide to become a member, send a donation, get involved, or simply learn more.And, please, if you know of other individuals or organizations that are enacting eco-swaraj in India or elsewhere, please contact me and let me know. I hope to make this a dynamic collection.

 

Earth (Organic agriculture)

• Kheti Virasat Mission
• Navdanya
• System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Network via Cornell University
• Kellogg Biological Station
• Long-Term Ecological Research Network

 

Water

• Tarun Bharat Sangh
• CSE: Water Management
• International Rivers

Fire (clean cookstoves & renewable energy)

• Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
• Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
• Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
• Aprovecho Research Center
• d.lite

Air (species conservation)

• Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
• Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE)
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Peregrine Fund
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• International Center for Birds of Prey

Ether (population and women’s/girls’ health)

• Apne Aap
• Pathfinder International
• Malala Fund
• Janani

General environmental organizations in India & elsewhere:

• Centre for Science and the Environment 
• Kalpavriksh
• Aprovecho