Vikrant Joshi

Tulsi Gowda never went to school, never learned to read or write, and spent decades working in a government nursery as a daily-wage labourer. Yet she became known as the “Encyclopedia of the Forest”, carrying generations of ecological knowledge in her memory and helping nurture thousands of saplings. Her story is not simply about planting trees. It is about learning deeply, serving quietly, and building a legacy that can outlive the person who created it.

There are voices that narrate history, and then there are voices that become part of humanity’s moral memory. For nearly a century, the voice of Sir David Attenborough has accompanied the unfolding story of life on Earth: over rainforests breathing beneath cloud cover, over whales crossing black oceans older than civilization itself, over deserts flowering after years of silence, over birds whose migrations began before the first cities were built. Entire generations learned the rhythm of the...

In the evolving story of climate action, there are those who protest, those who legislate, and those who build. Delfy Barcellona belongs firmly to the third category. Her work does not begin at the end of the pipeline, where waste is managed and damage is controlled. It begins much earlier, at the drawing board of possibility itself. From Córdoba, Defly is part of a growing generation of climate leaders who understand that the future of sustainability will not be won through reaction alone....