Archive for April, 2006

THE ART OF BUILDING A ‘BHONGA”

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

In April 2000 a group of architects designers & photographers from Israel, came to the village of Tunda Vand in Mundra Taluka, Kutch, Gujarat, to participate in a project of building a “bhonga” - the famous mud hut of the Kutch desert.
The idea was to learn the special technology & to renew the bhonga building […]

Happy Earth Day

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Spring is the renewal of life. The first Earth Day, proclaimed by the City of San Francisco and celebrated on March 21, 1970 was created by John McConnell.
What led him to the idea was his interest in Space exploration and awareness of the March Equinox, nature’s primary day of global equilibrium.
In 1971 UN Secretary General […]

ANANSI - THE BIOPIRATE

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

 (An African Folktale with a modern twist)
Anansi the spider knew that he was not wise. He was very clever, and could outwit many different people, but he knew that he did not have very much wisdom. This bothered him a great deal, but he did not know what to do about it. Then one day […]


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