[Reader-list] [Fwdfyi: [urbanibalism] Suprabha Seshan interview (at Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, Kerala)

[Patrice Riemens]

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Subject: [urbanibalism] Suprabha Seshan interview
From:    "theun" <theun at fo.am>
Date:    Sat, August 28, 2010 12:33
To:      "Luminous List" <luminous at fo.am>
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Hi

A unique opportunity to hear Suprabha Seshan, head of the Gurukula
Botanical Sanctuary in a radio interview behind a tiny microphone in the
middle of the forest.
GBS is a selftrained family-run garden, restoring the rainforest with
unpresedented successrates of growing endangered species in their
microclimates, with local tribal women. The Kerala rainforest is the
origin of many of our spices and medicines.
Cocky and myself visited the Sanctuary in 2005 for 6 weeks.

Speaking on:
- restoring the complex ecosystem of the rainforest by gardening
- living in the forest in a sustainable way
- CO2-reforestation monocultures
- the destructive aspects of mining, ecotourism
- the rise of India's economy and closing cycles
- the sacred; worshiping the plastic statue of the elephant not the
elephants themselves
- the distance mainstream media create for people to engage with nature
- the tention between their 'ecological lifestyle' and monetary and work
cultures
- the woods as a fundamental experience


http://www.radioopensource.org/real-india-a-land-soon-without-tigers-and-maybe-orchids/


Theun
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