“Undoing the lessons of development is the first step – not creating another set of new rules that call themselves sustainable development.” Vandana Shiva’s prescient speech on the topic of Grassroots Strategies for Our Global Future was given to the Public Interest Economic Law Conference, in Eugene, Oregon, in 1990. Vandana Shiva is the author of “Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development in India”, and is the Coordinator of the Research Foundation of Science and Ecology in India.
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