Without ecology there is no economy

Indian-born Kumar, who visited Sydney recently to promote his ideas, has devoted his life to investigating links between ecology and spirituality, literally walking the talk. At the age of nine he became a child monk, going barefoot, begging for food and wearing a cloth over his mouth to avoid inadvertently killing an insect.
Then, in 1962, he became inspired and outraged by the incarceration of the English philosopher and peace campaigner Bertrand Russell and decided to walk to the four nuclear capitals of the world. Over 18 months, he trekked to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington in a protest against nuclear arms.