oikos (a Greek word meaning home or earth) is a consultancy firm working for ecological land management since 2002.
oikos provides a spectrum of services catering to different users viz. corporate sector, private landowners, entrepreneurs, & NGOs with a specific objective of nature conservation to restore and improve the status of natural resources, processes and biodiversity.

Work profile
We very much believe in site specific planning.
So, we follow specific steps –

Both have completed one-year diploma course in 'Sustainable Development of Natural Resources & Conservation' conducted by Ecological Society, Pune. Ecological society is an organization working in the field of natural resource conservation and restoration for more than twenty years. Contact for more details: www.ecological-society.org .

Ketaki Ghate
B.Sc. (Chemistry), B.Sc. (Botany)
Double graduate from native town Chalisgaon came to Pune to a take course from Ecological Society, with a passion to work for nature.

• Member of Pune Tree Authority, Pune Municipal Corporation.
• Member of Ecological Society, Pune and Working as visiting faculty in ecological society, for the subjects like Landscape ecology, Eco perspective in watershed management, Alternative livelihood systems like forest food, Sacred groves, Urban ecology etc.
• Working as visiting faculty for Masters in Architecture course at BNCA College of architecture, Pune.

Manasi Karandikar
B.E. (Instru), M.Sc. (Env. Sc.)
With a keen eye for wildlife & nature, pursued masters in environmental sciences after engineering.

• Member of Ecological Society, Pune and working as visiting faculty in Ecological Society, for the subjects like Restoration, Restoration techniques. Have taken part in various projects of society like exhibitions, seminars, surveys, eco-education.
• Working with Grammangal, local NGO, to design educational tools for dovetailing ecological perspective in school education.

Apart from above core group, oikos has Landscape architect, Field experts in plants, birds, insects, site coordinators as regular team to respond efficiently to various client specific enquiries.

• Eco-responsive Architecture & Landscaping.
• Wildlife experts.
• Vermi-composting.
• Nature & wildlife photography.
• Designing
• Products for Restoration activities.
• Eco-products
• Plantations
• Sustainable agriculture

Partner organizations:

Articles & Papers

• Published article named “Grow natives” in Current science. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/25oct2010/995.pdf
• Articles published in leading News Paper Agro won – Sakal, Nature related magazines, souvenirs on significance and importance of native flora & nature.
• Articles covering issues like Native plants, Eco-restoration are written for various news papers, magazines & local Radio.
• Paper published in an international conference - INTA-SEGA 2009 Secretariat, Bangkok, Thailand, by the name “Significance of ‘Devrai’: SACRED groves in Indian cultural landscapes”, with co author Ar Asmita divekar

Oikos earns its legacy from ‘The Ecological Society’ based in Pune. Under the able guidance of Prof. Prakash Gole, we have learned extensively about our environment … from a unique perspective ! To quote Prof. Gole, “If economics is primarily concerned with allocation of scarce resources among competing wants, it ought to show deep understanding of resources and their utilization. It does nothing of the sort. Mainstream economics tries to interpret and analyze the working of Industrial Capitalism and that too without any attempt to probe the foundations on which Industrial Capitalism stands.”