Hey folks,

The new year is just round the corner — but this time we decided to beat the earth as it orbits around the sun. So we present to you a ‘new-look’ Gobar Times, just as you are bidding farewell to the old year…

Now, as we went about creating this new look—experimenting and arguing endlessly — an interesting thing happened to us. We realised that changing the garb of Gobar Times is just the starting point. We also need to take a fresh look at what we are putting inside it. Why? Because the world around us has undergone a tremendous shift in the past couple of decades. And this new world — obsessed with technology and economic growth — has evolved a brand new environmental lingo. And it is absolutely critical for all of us to get familiar with these new terms that have been coined, to understand what they really mean — if we try to apply them in our everyday life.

Stephen Schenider, author and educator, says that the first lesson on environment should begin with three questions — “what can happen?," "what are the odds?," and "how do you know?”. But we believe in brushing up the basics before we start asking. So here goes…