Symbiotic Development at

Govardhan EcoVillage - a Case

Study in Circular Economy
What's wrong with the
WORLD ?
 What's wrong with the
WORLD ?
1. Global Warming
2. Global Economic Collapse
3. Peak Oil/Energy Consumption
4. Urbanization and Population
5. Global Water Crisis
6. Malnutrition and food security
7. Nuclear Proliferation
8. War
9. Terrorism
10. Loss of Biodiversity and Species
Extinction
Finding a solution...
 Finding a solution...
FUTURE
DEVELOPMENT

SOCIO ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTAL

IMPROVEMENT SUSTANABILITY

Can they go hand in hand?

 Industrial Mechanism...
Work
Force?
Goods
Human Human
INDUSTRY Consumers? Population
Population
Services

Resources?
Wastes?

NATURE
CONCERN: Humans are Forests, Mines,
Oceans CONCERN:
not creating resources
Disconnect b/w
they are borrowing,
Consumption Loop
consuming & dumping
& Resource Loop
 Industrial Mechanism...effects

Depleting Resources, Increasing Wastes

Ecological Resilience strained to limit

Increasing Cost of Waste Handling

Root Cause Analysis of Problem

Resource 1 Consumer 1 Waste 1

Resource 2 Consumer 2 Waste 2

LINEAR RESOURCE
TO TRASH MODEL:
Individual
Consumers

Resource n Consumer n Waste n

=∑Resource 1…n =∑Waste 1…n

Nature's Design
 Symbiotic Design
Resource 1 Consumer 1 Waste 1

Resource 2 Consumer 2 Waste 2 LINEAR RESOURCE

TO TRASH MODEL:
Individual
Resource n Consumer n Waste n Consumers

=∑Resource 1…n =∑Waste 1…n

Resource 1 Contributor 1 Waste 1

Resource 2 Contributor 2 Waste 2 SYMBIOTIC

RECYCLING:
Individual
Resource 3 Contributor 3 Waste 3
Contributors

Resource n Contributor n Waste n

∑=Resource 1 ∑=Waste n
GEV – Circular Economy Model
 GEV CASE STUDIES

∗ GEV built by integration of various symbiotically dependent

systems thus creating minimal impact on nature.
HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT @ GEV
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Monika Rudzinskaite
Overseas Sustainability Officer,
Mob: +4915227942020
Whatsapp : +91983492615
monikarudzinskaite@gmail.com