Talk at CES on 12 August 2015 at 10:00 am titled "Talk by Claude Alvares" by Claude Alvares from Goa Foundation

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Topic: 
Talk by Claude Alvares
Speaker: 
Claude Alvares, Goa Foundation
Date & Time: 
12 Aug 2015 - 10:00am
Event Type: 
Talk
Venue: 
CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building
Coffee/Tea: 
Before the talk
Abstract:

Claude Alvares is a name that needs no introduction for people who are into conservation or the organic movement. For the rest, a notorious man who has stalled the mining giants from plundering the country's resources for the last 3 decades and successfully so. He has very strong views on our current education system some of which might be hard to digest. He claims to have worked on a meagre salary of Rs 10,000 for the last 3 decades and to make a living he runs Other India Press. He grows his own veggies and is a content man. His 3 kids are home schooled and he can talk at length on the merits of right education. He will be here to share his recent work on Organic Farming and also share the secrets of how to battle giants in order to conserve our forests and such. Depending on the interest of the audience he can sway in any direction so please feel free to ask the questions of your interest.

Speaker Bio: 
Claude Alvares is an environmentalist based in Goa, India. He is the editor of the Other India Press publication based in India. The Director of the Goa Foundation, an environmental monitoring action group, Claude Alvares got his PhD from the Technische Hogeschool, Eindhoven , in the Netherlands in 1976. He lives at Parra, Goa with his wife Norma ALvares, Padma Shree awardee and environmental lawyer, and three children. He is a member of the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).He is also a member of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Wastes constituted by the Supreme Court of India. He is the author of the article 'The Great Gene Robbery', published in the Illustrated Weekly of India. (courtesy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Alvares>)