What makes us, us is the passion for the cause. Therefore, each and every one of you who is willing to do something for our shared environment, to preserve it, to make it safe for our future, is a part of this movement. However, our core is a team of passionate individuals with different backgrounds working towards the environment in their available capabilities.
Since we have initiated this movement that encourages simple living, our team members have themselves taken pledges oriented towards sustainable living. These pledges range from conscious food consumption to conscious travelling, from responsible shopping to responsible waste disposal etc.
“Live simply so that others may simply live.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Sonam Wangchuk was born in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh in Jammu & Kashmir, India. Though a Mechanical Engineer by education, he has been mostly working in the field of education reform for more than 30 years. In 1988, just after he finished his engineering studies, he founded SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh), which aims to bring reforms in the government school system in Ladakh. In 1994 he was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope, a triangular collaboration of the government, village communities and the civil society to bring reforms in the government school system.
In order to solve the water crisis facing mountain regions due to climate change and fast melting glaciers he invented the Ice Stupa artificial glacier which stores the wasting stream waters in winter in the form of giant ice cones or stupas and releases the water in late spring as they melt... just when farmers needs water for irrigation.
