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  ISKCON Environmental Initiative Guides Temples in Implementing Environmental Practices

  On Earth Day (April 22^nd, 2021), ISKCON’s North American Council passed a resolution endorsing the work of the ISKCON Environmental Initiative (IEI), and encouraging “adoption of the environmentally sustainable practices promoted by the IEI by all ISKCON temples and communities.”

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  Accreditation of ISKCON Govardhan Ecovillage to United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

   Consultative status is an accreditation framework that benefits both the United Nations and the NGOs.

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  ISKCON Receives Prestigious ‘Green’ Award in India

  ISKCON’s two projects, the Govardhan Eco-village and the Chowpatty Mandir in Mumbai have achieved the Platinum level IGBC green certification.

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  Govardhan Ecovillage Wins National Energy Globe Award

  Every year, some 800 projects from all over the world that conserve and protect our resources, or employ renewable energy, participate. One award winner is chosen from each country.

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  Govardhan Eco Village Receives the Indian Circular Economy Award 2019

  During the 3^rd Edition of the Circular Economy Symposium this year, ISKCON Govardhan Ecovillage (GEV) receivedthe Indian Circular Economy Award in the NGO category. 

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  Youth for Sustainability

  Two years ago, six devotees from different yatras started to organize youth exchanges at several ISKCON temples in Europe. They saw a need for ISKCON’s youth to get together, develop deep friendships, integrate into the ISKCON community, and develop a philosophical understanding of our faith.  

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  Sacred Ecology Forum Hosts Conference on Sustainability in New York

  “Sustainability from the Inside Out”, as the conference was named, was hosted conjointly by Govardhan Eco Village (GEV), Mumbai and the Sacred Ecology Forum at the Bhakti Center on June 10th, to explore the profound connection between the practice of yoga and the sustainability of the Earth and its resources ahead of the International Yoga Day.

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  Water Appreciation & Management

  With everything else we’re concerned about, perhaps it’s too easy to overlook just how precious for us water really is. 

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  World Water Day: Award-winning Film About the Yamuna Released for Public Screening

  On this occasion, the production team of ‘The Stolen River’, a 40-minute documentary about the sacred Yamuna, has made the film available for public screening for communities, temples, educational- and other organizations.

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  Bin It!

  People have lost the fortitude and resilience to stay put, tolerate the difficulties, and patiently adjust to a situation and discover the unique opportunities on offer.

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  Trump on Paris Accord: 'We're Getting Out'

  President Donald Trump proclaimed Thursday he was withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, a sweeping step that fulfills a campaign promise while acutely dampening global efforts to curb global warming.

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  Govardana Academy Students Win Prize in Sustainability Contest

  Govardhana Academy, located at the Saranagati Farm Community in British Columbia (BC), Canada, recently participated in their third year of the BC Green Games - a province wide competition to promote sustainability in schools. One of the biggest challenges of farming at Saranagati is their short growing season. With a self-heated greenhouse, they intend to grow food year-round. Using money from a previous grant award, the materials were purchased and the students and their community teamed up to bring the design to reality.

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  Meet the Vegan Saudi Prince Who's Turning the Lights on in Jordan

  “Climate change and the unjustified consumption of energy are two of the most serious issues we face today at the macro-level.”

• Vandana Shiva on Govardhan Ecovillage

  This is a video message from Vandana Shiva aired during the Nexus Conference 2015(www.nexusconference.in) held in Govardhan Ecovillage on OCT 31 and NOV 1 2015.

• Eco-Village Sustainable Communities

  Now more than ever before people all over the planet are seeking new sustainable models for living. EcoVillages and ecological communities have been emerging as a viable alternative where people can live together in cooperation and harmony with the natural world. 'A New We' explores 10 such communities in Europe (including Krishna-valley in Hungary) and opens doors to further exploration and discovery on the new 'Global EcoVillage & Sustainable Community Network'.

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  Visit of Budapest Accredited Diplomats to Krishna Valley, Hungary

  To spread awareness of the importance of cows for a peaceful society, the devotees at New Vraja Dham organise a special festival every spring to celebrate the first grazing of the cows after a cold winter. 

• Grow 53 Plants with a Garden Tower Vertical Container Garden

  John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ sets up the Garden Tower Vertical Container Garden that allows you to grow 50+ plants in just 4 square feet of space.

• How to Plant Bananas

  A video by Vedic Way.

• Dear Future Generations: Sorry

  Prince Ea: An Apology Letter to Future Generations.

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  Green, Righteous and Dead?

  Thirty years ago no one gave a damn. You could gum up a river with factory sludge, chop down rain forests wholesale, spray fluorocarbons into the air like a kid sprinkling confetti , and non one would say boo. No longer. 

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  Saranagati’s Govardhana Academy Wins B.C. Green Games

  Students at ISKCON Saranagati, Canada, have topped the British Columbia Green Games winners’ lists in both the secondary and elementary school categories this year. The Green Games are run by a Vancouver center that promotes science education. To enter, students had to create and submit a photo essay, video project or website that showed an environmental action project their school had undertaken.

• Forever Green

  Students of the Govardhana Academy in Saranagati, an off-the-grid Krishna conscious village in B.C., Canada, have topped the B.C. Green Games winners’ lists in both the secondary and elementary school categories this year.

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  France Declares All New Rooftops Must Be Topped With Plants Or Solar Panels

  France mandates that all new buildings that are built in commercial zones in France must be partially covered in either plants or solar panels.

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  Feeding the Real Hunger

  One of the main problems of life we all face is filling our bellies. We have to eat and this hard fact forces most of us out of bed and off to work every day.

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  UN Urges Global Move to Meat and Dairy-free Diet

  Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says.

• Nature Is Speaking – Robert Redford is The Redwood

  A video by Conservation International.

• Nature Is Speaking – Lupita Nyong'o is Flower

  A Conservation International film.

• Nature Is Speaking – Edward Norton is The Soil

  Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder all join forces to give nature a voice. A short film series by Conservation International.

• Nature Is Speaking – Penélope Cruz is Water

  Conservation International video with the voice of Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz. 

• Nature Is Speaking – Harrison Ford is The Ocean

  Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford and Ian Somerhalder all join forces to give nature a voice. A video by Conservation International.

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  Srila Prabhupada Envisions a “New” Vrindaban

  In 1968, Prabhupada was issuing instructions about the community: “The Ashram may be named as "ISKCON-Nagari or New Vrindaban.” 

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  Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change

   India’s coal rush could push the world past the brink of irreversible climate change, scientists say.

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  Representatives of the Global Village Initiative Committee Meet in Tirupati

  Representatives of the Global Village Initiative Committee (GVIC) from three continents (Asia, Europe and North America) met at the ISKCON Tirupati temple along with members of various global committees from October 14th to 18th to share insights and prepare strategies to further the purpose of the initiative committee.

• Cowspiracy - Official Trailer

  "COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret" is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today, and investigates why the world's leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. This documentary will be as eye-opening as "Blackfish" and as inspiring as "An Inconvenient Truth." See more at: cowspiracy.com

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  Gita Nagari Farm Listed as Success Story by US Department of Agriculture

  The United States Department of Agriculture has listed ISKCON’s Gita- nagari Farm in Port Royal, Pennsylvania as one of the most important success stories of preservation and sustainability in 2013. 

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  New Govardhana Begins Final Stage of Self-Sufficiency Plan

  In the picturesque Tweed Valley in New South Wales, Australia, ISKCON’s New Govardhana farm began work on the final stage of its five-part self-sufficiency plan in late May of this year. Once the plan is complete, it won’t immediately render the community fully self-sufficient; however it will set the farm on the path towards gradually reaching that goal.

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  The Environmental Sustainability of Indian Spirituality

  I had arrived at New York's JFK Airport and was immediately struck by the hundreds of cars all around the airport.I asked my friend who had come to pick me up, "How exactly are all these cars be sustained once the fuel supply is over?"

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  Helpful Tips for Building Your Own Herb Garden

  Herbs are among the easiest garden plants to grow during the summertime because they typically perform their best with lots of sun exposure.

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  Cintamani Dham in Irvine, Kentucky, USA: A Blossoming ISKCON Farm Community

  With this desire and missionary spirit in place, at the age of 65, UK-born Adikarta Das and his wife Rucira Dasi decided to start life anew; they packed up lock, stock and barrel, and after scouting through several properties, decided to settle on a heavenly locale in Irvine, Kentucky, calling it Cintamani Dham.

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  Green Revolution at ISKCON's Headquarters

  Guests staying at Mayapur's largest and new guesthouse, Ishodyan, had the privilege of having their morning shower with hot water heated by solar power. Due to the new “Green Revolution”, it is not long before residents and visitors see ISKCON Mayapur transforming into being a truly sustainable Krishna-community. 

• Sustainable Organic Agriculture in the Desert

  A short video about how to develop an abundant organic farm even under the most extreme circumstances.

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  Incredible Sustainable Living Architecture in India

  In a place where any man-made bridge can easily be washed away, humans here have consciously decided to work in collaboration with nature.

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  Let's Be Honest: Real Sustainability May Not Make Business Sense

  If we want to make significant steps towards sustainability, we need to appeal to the real motives behind choices. 

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  Can Family Farming Make Poverty History?

  In just 12 years leading up to 2010, Vietnam cut the country's malnutrition rate in half by investing in small scale farming.

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  Congregations Tend the Soil and the Soul with Vegetable Gardens
  The Rev. Morris G. Henderson wasn’t sure what do with a vacant city block of land behind his Baptist Church in Richmond, VA (USA). The church had purchased the plots, but didn’t have the funding to build a planned family life center. Then, he had a vision.
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  Pillars of Sustainability Seminar in Krishna Valley, Hungary
  The Eco Valley Foundation is organizing a seminar entitled "The Pillars of Sustainability", which will take place between 22nd and 30th June, 2013, in Krishna Valley, Somogyvámos, Hungary.
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  Vegetarianism for Low Carbon Life - Akhanadhi Das on the BBC
  Akhandadhi Das said that Hinduism's focus on the symbiotic relationship between mankind and the cow could be taken on by all people as a way of reducing carbon emissions caused by intensive beef farming. He was one of several religious representatives who attended the Faith in the Environment conference hosted by BBC Wales, UK, in November 2009.
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  D.C. Gardener Encourages City Temples to Go Green
  As environmentally-friendly living becomes more and more of a concern in a modern society where Earth’s resources are fast running out, ISKCON has an increasing responsibility to set a good example.
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  New Vrindaban Takes a Step Towards Sustainable Energy
  ISKCON’s West Virginia community New Vrindaban has taken another step towards the self-sufficiency that Srila Prabhupada envisioned for it when it was founded in 1968: the community has installed two brand new solar energy systems this year.
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  British Town Grows Its Own Vegetables and Witnesses Reduced Crime
  When the small British mill town of Todmorden, first began installing fruit and vegetable gardens all around the area as part of the Incredible Edible program, it likely had no idea that the novel, yet simple, concept would make the town a foremost inspirational and self-sustaining model of the future.
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  Bhaktivedanta Manor's New Goshalla Wins Prize for "Design Excellence"
  Thirty-two high quality nominations were received for Hertfordshire (UK) based "Building Futures" Awards, ranging from household extensions to a large public space regeneration project. This year, the "Design Excellence Award" was given the Bhaktivedanta Manor`s newly constructed goshalla and visitor center.
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  New Vrindaban Organic Gardening Inspires Local Sustainability

  A New Vrindaban devotee’s efforts at organic gardening have inspired the general public, educational institutions, and leaders in the local town of Wheeling, West Virginia to support sustainability, eat local produce and consider spiritual motives for it.

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  Pillars of Sustainability: Conference in Krishna-valley, Hungary
  From October 9th to 16th, sponsored by the European Union, the ISKCON associated Eco Valley Foundation of Hungary held a week long seminar called Pillars of Sustainability, at New Vraja Dhama, the Hare Krishna farm community in the South-Western part of the country.
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  Krishna Valley Visitors Learn Sustainability and Mud-House Building
  One professor and seven university students from France, Germany, the US, and Belarus attended a seven-day mud house building workshop at Krishna Valley from June 6th to 12th, as part of their landscape development and management study.
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  Can Farming Make It in the Big City?
  Entrepreneurs are looking to urban farms and rooftop gardens as an alternative to traditional farms. While start-up costs are higher, these efforts could pay off with long-term environmental benefits and better tasting veggies.
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  New Vraja Dhama Plants Forests for Carbon-Neutral Heating
  Devotees at New Vraja Dhama, a sustainable ISKCON farm community in Hungary also known as Krishna Valley, are set to plant 6.5 hectares of trees—an incredible 50,000 Acacias, Oaks, and Willows—on their property at the end of this March.
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  Twelve Unsustainable Things That Will Soon Come To A Disastrous End

  If you look around what's really happening in our world today, there's an inescapable pattern that curiously emerges: Much of what's going on is simply unsustainable. It can't go on for much longer, in other words. And it must collapse due to the laws of economics or physics.

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  Hindu Groups Agree To Address Climate Change
  National Hindu groups in India have pledged to make addressing environmental damage a top priority. “Weʼre not asking people to do anything new. Weʼre simply encouraging them to re-learn the teachings of the past; to re-examine the principles and practices their forefathers lived by – whatever their religious background.”
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  Bali School Makes Sustainability a Way of Life
  Half a world away from Cancún, Mexico, and the international climate change talks that took place there last month, a school here in Indonesia is staging its own attempt to save the planet.
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  Hungary`s Krishna Valley Devotees Elected to Local Mayor’s Council
  Since 1998—for the past three elections—one of the seven people on the Mayor’s council in the village of Somogyvamos in Hungary has been an ISKCON devotee. This year, there will only be four people on the Mayor’s council, as well as the newly elected Mayor Mrs Marianna Dekanyne Karoly—and three of them will be devotees.
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  In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises
  Back in 2007, when the United Arab Emirates announced its plan for “the world’s first zero-carbon city” on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, many Westerners dismissed it as a gimmick. But now, Masdar is here.
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  UN Invites Hungary’s Eco Valley Foundation to Attend COP16
  The Eco-Valley Foundation-a non-profit organization run by ISKCON devotees in Hungary—received an invitation from the United Nations this September 20th for the COP16 Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico.
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  New Vrindaban Revives Its Agricultural Roots
  When New Vrindaban was founded, we used ox carts for transportation, just like people use in rural India. Later, however, the focus of the community shifted away from agriculture.
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  Krishna Valley Teaches Sustainable Living to Thousands
  Established in 1993 by ISKCON guru and GBC Sivarama Swami, Krishna Valley is a sustainable farm community of the kind that ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada encouraged devotees to establish all over the world.
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  European Commission And Religions: Fighting Poverty Together
  In the European Year against poverty and social exclusion 2010 the European institutions engage in a dialogue with religious leaders, including Sivarama Swami ISKCON representative.
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  HarvestFest & Balarama Full Moon Feast in Canada
  Between August 21 – 24, 2010 the Saranagati Eco-Village community in Venables Valley, British Columbia, Canada will hold its annual HarvestFest and Balarama Full Moon Feast.
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  Europe Finds Clean Energy in Trash, but U.S. Lags
  New plants that convert local trash into heat and electricity have become both the mainstay of garbage disposal and a crucial fuel source across Denmark.
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  Third of Plants and Animals 'At Risk of Extinction'
  One third of plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, a UN report is expected to conclude this week.
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  Masdar: Abu Dhabi's Carbon-Neutral City
  The world's first zero-carbon city is being built in Abu Dhabi and is designed to be not only free of cars and skyscrapers but also powered by the sun.
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  ISKCON's Astottara-sata Dasa Wins TED Fellowship

  Astottara-sata Dasa (Alexander Petroff) is an American second generation devotee of Krishna who spent his childhood at the rural ISKCON farm community, Gita-nagari nestled in the beautiful countryside of Port Royal, Pennsylvania, USA.

  These days Astottara-sata, son of Hare Krsna Dasi, spends a lot of his time in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he is the founder and President of Working Villages International (WVI). Working Villages International is a non-profit organization dedicated to building self-sufficient, environmentally sustainable villages.

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  New Govardhana Farm Supplies Deities With Own Vegetables
  Despite difficulties earlier this year, ISKCON’s certified organic farm in Australia, New Govardhana, is now able to supply its Radha Krishna deities with all the vegetables needed for their offerings.
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  Sugarcane Plates: ISKCON Chooses the Sweet Alternative
  In today’s environmentally aware world, it may shock guests to find out that some ISKCON centers – while claiming to represent a society of spiritual welfare workers and self-sufficiency exponents – serve their vegetarian meals on Styrofoam dinnerware.