Earth One / India
Confidential
Welcome.
You’ve been hand-picked to join an intimate group of 40 extraordinary leaders at the upcoming Earth One / India immersion this February.
We are gathering key stakeholders and Earth One community members for a week-long immersion into water security and ecosystem restoration as we travel from the sacred waters of the Ganges River in the holy city of Varanasi through the deserts and ancient forts of Rajasthan.
2025 marks a pivotal moment in India’s evolution —a moment for course correction toward a regenerative future. And their momentum is building. In 2023, Ahmedabad hosted the G20 centered on defining “Life Economies”; Prime Minster Modi recently proposed to host the UN Climate COP in 2030, and India has set ambitious public targets for sustainable development. According to the World Bank, “water is crucial in determining whether the world will achieve the sustainable development goals”. With increasing desertification, climate threats, and a growing population, India must ensure long-term water security.
The orthodox approach to water security emphasizes infrastructure over ecology. This paradigm doesn’t yet consider that biodiversity and soil health are innovative water conservation strategies, perhaps more so than treatment facilities and piping infrastructure. By leading through ecosystem restoration, India has the opportunity to serve as a beacon for the world.
We’re honored to invite you into a new chapter of Earth One convenings in action. We hope you’ll join us. The journey starts in Varanasi on 26th February ending in Jaipur 3rd March.
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In sincere gratitude,
The Earth One Team
See last year's journey.
Working in the space between.
Earth One alchemizes trust to catalyze impact. We operate as an interstitium between diverse communities: weaving disparate worldviews, enabling harmony, and driving collective action. Our theory of change begins with relationality and trust to set the conditions for long-term collaboration and intergenerational impact.
— The Journey —
24 - 26 Feb
Varanasi
OPtional
Arrive
Arrive in the ancient holy city of Varanasi where our team will first gather.
Kumbh Mela
Optional
Join for an extremely unique and exclusive opportunity to take part in the every-12-year sacred pilgrimage to bathe in the waters where the Ganges River meets the Yamuna.
Jaisalmer
Immerse
Dive into deep focus addressing the immersion mission to transform our global approach to water conservation. Uncover what this unique configuration of experts, practitioners, and leaders is best suited to enable for this mission.
1 — 3 Mar
Kuchaman
Learn about the rich cultural heritage of artisanry in India within the masterpieces of art and architecture in the forts of Kuchaman and explore how place-based biocultural stewardship is a holistic mission.
Dhun
Experience one of India’s most promising regenerative development projects to root the dialogue in tangible case studies and orient for the future.
Dhun
Optional
Experience one of India’s most promising regenerative development projects to root the dialogue in tangible case studies and orient for the future.
It’s clear that India’s past, present and future each hold profound importance for our living planet.
Our trip will visit India’s most promising place-based land stewardship efforts and potent water-based spiritual sites. This expedition will be a truly once-in-a-lifetime way to experience one of our planet’s most unique, beautiful and important places with a highly curated group uniquely positioned to transform the global narrative around water conservation toward ecosystem restoration.
On Guildcraft.
Co-Creative
We invite radical interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational collaboration to address the most pressing issues of our time.
Co-Developmental
We focus on both the inner and the outer journey. We know that to drive meaningful change in the world, we must start within ourselves.
Our India immersion brings together two Earth One Guilds to collaborate on one Mission.
Mission / Brief
Mission
Protect water security through ecosystem restoration.
How might we?
Deepen the narrative of water conservation beyond infrastructure innovation to ecosystem restoration
Guild(s)
Resilience
Biocultures
Skills needed
Water experts
ecosystem restoration champions
policymakers
Global Conveners
institutional Funders
storytellers
Deadline
World Water Congress
December 2025
— The big questions —
— Need to Know —
— Our host —
Manvendra Singh Shekhawat
Designer & Entrepreneur
Manvendra is a creator and visionary entrepreneur. His generational thinking, systems approach, creative mindset and perseverance have allowed him to bring ambitious ideas to life. His hotel ventures, Suryagarh in Jaisalmer and Narendra Bhawan in Bikaner, are outliers and have been instrumental in putting these destinations on the luxury tourism map of India.
He is currently restoring forts and palaces with a vision to transform these historical sites into a network of cultural hubs housing multiple cultural enterprises.
Manvendra's family's humble beginnings and its entrepreneurial journey have given him a myriad of unique perspectives and experiences that allow him to think globally and act at the grassroots level.
As a community leader, he has formed alliances with local communities to address systemic problems and has undertaken over 60 community projects. These include Jaisalmer's largest cleanliness and conservation drive and launching India's first citizen-airline partnership to strengthen regional tourism ecosystems.
Manvendra's greatest quest now is to innovate the future of liveability- Regenerative habitats that maximise human potential. He spends most of his time on the site of his sandbox project, Dhun, where he is designing a regenerative habitat for 10000 people. Over the last 8 years, he and his team have transformed 500 acres of barren land into a thriving ecosphere. They are now building an ecosystem of creative enterprises that leverage culture, nature, creativity and technology to create new developmental narratives that bring self-sufficiency and equality of opportunities in the developing world.
— Our Patron —
Agam Khare
Scientist & Entrepreneur
Agam is the Founder, CEO at Absolute - a pathbreaking BioScience company focussed on improving Agri performance worldwide with additional research interests in Biomaterials & Biocare space. Prior, Agam ran India's leading Industrial Robotics & Factory Automation company working across various sectors.
Between 2010 & 2012, Agam worked very closely with the 11th President of India & World Renowned Scientist- Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on building moonshot innovations to solve some of the grandest global challenges faced by humanity. Agam served on the First Scientific Advisory Council of Tata Transformation Prize run by New York Academy of Sciences & Tata Sons. Agam also serves on board of various Not for Profits in India.