Geography & Environment

Environmental Consulting for the Tibetan Plateau, Southwest China and the Himalayas Environment, forests, medicinal plants & mushrooms and rural development in High Asia.

Ecological Buddhism - A Buddhist Response to Global Warming.

Herbal Sources of Tibetan Medicines - Protecting the Himalayan varieties used in Tibetan medicines, exploring growing them as crops, and evaluating the healing properties of plants that grow elsewhere.

To mark the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in conjunction with the British Council in Nepal has created an exhibition called Imaging Everest from its collection of approximately 20,000 photographs taken on the nine Mount Everest Expeditions between 1921 and 1953. These expeditions were jointly organized by the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club.

The film raises some disturbing questions about a looming eco-disaster. If Himalayan glaciers vanish, what will happen to the rivers of Tibet? What is the fate of people in nations downstream that depend on those rivers? Why is China building so many large dams on the Tibetan plateau? What on earth are China's engineers getting up to?

Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM) is the first and only Tibetan environmental NGO (non-governmental organization) in exile. Our mission is to revive the ecological consciousness of the Tibetan people. Through the combination of traditional Tibetan spiritual values with modern scientific knowledge about the environment, TEAM aims to empower Tibetans to live a sustainable and eco-friendly way of life. Phone: +91 1892 226085 | Cell: +91 9418791168.

Scholar, explorer, writer, and pilgrim John Vincent Bellezza is widely recognized as the foremost specialist in the cultural history of Upper Tibet. He has lived in the high Himalaya for over a quarter of a century. A visiting scholar at the University of Virginia, Bellezza has written extensively on the nomads, history and culture of Upper Tibet. A pioneer in his field, he is credited with the discovery of hundreds of pre-Buddhist archaeological sites, describing the monuments and the people that built them in great detail.