The BCIL Alt.Tech Foundation has been involved with issues concerning water and energy for over a decade now. We've come to realize that if we have to survive in this planet, there is lot more than water and energy we have to address if we have to sustain this civilization....

The thrust in all our programmes will remain on water and energy, the two resources that the world will soon run out of, if a greater awareness of their importance is not built in people's minds.

Some action items of the Foundation include:

1. Raise our understanding of an ecosystem's biodiversity and the threats facing it.

2. Focus on the creation of working models of 'analog' forests which over 40-60 years will mature into a natural forest range.

3. Enable easy learning by children and urban Indians who have never learnt what it is to co-exist with the wild.

4. Sensitise people with lively programmes that subtly strengthen their perception of life around them and their place on Earth.

5. Create Biodiversity Registers and Red Lists of Endangered species in ecosystems and assist in their conservation.

6. Refine our understanding of land regeneration processes with soil and water conservation programmes.

7. Create major tree nurseries with intensive planting. Select species for such traits as drought resistance, rapid growth, capacity for soil anchoring and enrichment and the ability to sustain themselves naturally in the long term.

8. Convert farmers and women in the hills to viable but more ecologically sustainable livelihoods, such as eco-tourism, cultivation of medicinal plants, and so on.

9. Documentation and archiving of traditional practices and knowledge systems for use by other groups and by posterity.
BCIL Alt. Tech. Foundation is a registered Not-for-profit trust.

For further information, please contact:
varun@ecobcil.com
Varun at +91 98868 93598