Date: May 9th 2011

Can India's current economic model work, divorced as it is from concerns of natural resources and the environment? In its place, can an environment-centred development model work? My heart says yes, and at once bleeds that India is losing its way. Read my views here: http://goodnewsindia.com/pointreturn/online/the-grand-spirits-of-india/

Karpagam, Sriram and Siddarth have played the central and major part is physically building their future home on pointReturn. The sensitivities that drove its design, selection of materials, methods of construction and difficulties faced have been well told in this illustrated series of posts. They are both descriptive and instructive: http://csm-fanaa.blogspot.com/search/label/house

I send spirited greetings from pointReturn
-dv