Digital Green, founded by Symposium participant Rikin Gandhi, currently works across 4,000 villages and with 450,000 farmers in India. About 60 % of these farmers are in rice-growing regions of the country. Digital Green is actively converting many of these farmers from an anaerobic flood-based cultivation of paddy to the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) which can reduce N2O-N emissions by 0.90 kg ha.
Working with the SLOW LIFE Symposium team on methodology, Digital Green is exploring the potential for Gold Standard carbon credits for farmers adopting SRI. The returns that are raised will be reinvested to sustain and scale Digital Green’s work across India and could open a new channel for voluntary carbon credits for other organisations.
The Soneva Sustainability Report 2014-15 publishes the results of Soneva’s first Total Impact Assessment. [caption id="attachment_3317" align="alignleft" width="780"] Photo: Cat Vinton[/caption] In an effort to measure the total impact the company has on the natural world and on the…... more
Soneva was announced as the winner of the prestigious Word Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorrow Award 2015 in the Environment category at the WTTC…... more
Participants at the 2014 SLOW LIFE Symposium. Successful initiatives such as WHOLE WORLD Water and Learn to Swim were born out of the SLOW LIFE Symposium. Following…... more
