Tag: Public-Private Mix
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Earth Day 2025
Earth Day was first proposed a day to honour the Earth and the concept of peace and later as an environmental teach-in for the United States. By the 1990s Earth Day had mobilised around 200 million people in 141 countries and had lifted the status of environmental issues onto the world stage. This years theme…
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Unforeseen Contingency
At times ‘Presumption’ overshoots and ‘Diffidence’ falls short is a well known quote by Golda Meir. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live – but in our presumption we assumed…
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Learning by hearing a range of perspectives
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. A consultative exercise between the District Administration, the Ooty Municipality and…