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{{Short description|Indian green activist}}
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| name = Anil Prakash Joshi
| image = The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi, for his contribution in promoting indigenous technologies, at investiture ceremony in New Delhi on March 29, 2006.jpg
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| caption = The President, [[A.P.J. Abdul Kalam]] presenting Padma Shri to Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi, for his contribution in promoting indigenous technologies, at investiture ceremony in New Delhi on March 29, 2006.
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|4|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kotdwar]], [[Pauri Garhwal district]], [[Uttarakhand]], India
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| occupation = Social worker Botanist Green activist
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| known for = Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization
| spouse = Dr. Sandhya Joshi
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| children = Shivam Joshi
| parents = Fateh Ram Joshi, Satyabhama Joshi
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| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] [[Padma Shri]] [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] Ashoka Fellowship [[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] ''Man of the Year'' [[Indian Science Congress|ISC]] Jawaharlal Nehru Award
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Dr. '''Anil Prakash Joshi''' is an environmentalist, green activist, and the founder of ''Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization'' (HESCO), a [[Dehradun]]-based voluntary organization. His work majorly includes developing sustainable technologies that are ecology inclusive economy for ecosystem development. He has coined G.E.P (Gross Environmental Product),an ecological growth measure parallel to G.D.P. G.E.P has been accepted as a growth measure bu the state of Uttarakhand on 5th June, 2021. He was selected as the man of the year by Week Magazine in 2003. He is a recipient of the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] and is an Ashoka Fellow. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2006, for his contributions to Indian society. He was also awarded by [[Padma Bhushan]] 2020 for environmental in [[Uttarakhand]]. Dr. Joshi appeared in the Kaun Banega Crorepati, Karamveer episode aired on 25th December 2020.

== Biography ==
Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi was born on 6 April 1955 at [[Kotdwar]], in [[Pauri Garhwal district]], in the present day [[Uttarakhand]] state of India in a family of farmers<ref name="Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi - JB Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2006/science-and-technology/dr-anil-prakash-joshi | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208050507/http://www.jamnalalbajajfoundation.org/awards/archives/2006/science-and-technology/dr-anil-prakash-joshi|archive-date=8 December 2015| title=Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi - JB Award | publisher=Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation | date=2006 | access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref> and secured a master's degree in botany and a doctoral degree in ecology.<ref name="Anil Prakash Joshi biography">{{cite web | url=http://www.veethi.com/india-people/anil_prakash_joshi-profile-7198-38.htm | title=Anil Prakash Joshi biography | publisher=Veethi | date=2015 | access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref> He started his career as a member of faculty at the Kotdwar Government PG College but resigned the job in 1979 and founded ''Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization'' (HESCO), a non governmental organization. Under the aegis of HESCO, Joshi promoted research and development of new environment-friendly technologies for the agricultural sector, tapping the local resources. He is supported by a team of 30 people, and the group is known to have been involved in the dissemination of knowledge on eco-friendly techniques and technologies<ref name="Lack of basic amenities in rural areas cause for exodus">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/uttarakhand/community/lack-of-basic-amenities-in-rural-areas-cause-for-exodus-javadekar/126977.html | title=Lack of basic amenities in rural areas cause for exodus | work=The Tribune | date=1 September 2015 | access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref> in 40 villages in the state.<ref name="Ashoka Fellowship">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Ashoka Fellowship|url=https://www.ashoka.org/fellow/anil-prakash-joshi|access-date=5 December 2015|publisher=Ashoka.org}}</ref> His concept of ''Gross Environmental Product'' has since been adopted by the State Government.<ref name="Dr Anil P Joshi">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Dr Anil P Joshi|url=http://measurewhatmatters.info/author/dr-anil-p-joshi/|access-date=5 December 2015|publisher=Measure What Matters}}</ref>

Dr. Joshi has launched several social programmes, based on resource-based rural development, such as ''Women Technology Park'', ''Technology Intervention for Mountain-Eco System'', ''Ecological Food Mission in Mountain'' and ''Women's Initiative for Self Employment'' (WISE)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anil Prakash Joshi |url=http://india.ashoka.org/fellow/anil-prakash-joshi |publisher=Ashoka India |access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi - JB Award" /> and has been reported to be successful in providing the villages with water mills, composting pits, toilets, plan-based drugs and herbal pesticides and rainwater harvesting techniques.<ref name="Ashoka Fellowship" /> Finding uses for a local shrub, ''Kurri'', which had been considered a weed, by utilising it for making furniture, incense sticks and using the left-overs as fodder was one initiative developed by Joshi.<ref name="The Mountain Man">{{cite web | url=http://www.thebetterindia.com/784/the-mountain-man/ | title=The Mountain Man | publisher=The Better India | date=28 June 2009 | access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref> He is credited with over 60 articles and ten books on the subject.<ref name="Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi - JB Award" />

Ashoka, the social entrepreneurial network, elected him as their Fellow in 1993.<ref name="Ashoka Fellowship" /> The [[Indian Science Congress]] awarded him the Jawaharlal Nehru Award in 1999 and [[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] magazine selected him as the ''Man of the Year'' in 2002.<ref name="Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi - JB Award" /> The Government of India included him in the 2006 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honours]] list for the civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]] and the same year, he received the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Award]] for his efforts in the ''application of science and technology for rural development''.<ref name="Jamnalal Bajaj awards presented">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/jamnalal-bajaj-awards-presented/article3044650.ece | title=Jamnalal Bajaj awards presented | newspaper=The Hindu | date=7 November 2006 | access-date=5 December 2015}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Bill Drayton]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://partneringforruralprosperity.in/videos/68-dr-anil-prakash-joshi-founder-and-chairman-himalayan-environment-studies-and-conservation-oraganisation#.VmMUS_krLIU | title=Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi speaks about on Himalayan tribes role and resources | publisher=Partnering for Rural Prosperity | date=13 September 2013 | access-date=5 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208082101/http://partneringforruralprosperity.in/videos/68-dr-anil-prakash-joshi-founder-and-chairman-himalayan-environment-studies-and-conservation-oraganisation#.VmMUS_krLIU | archive-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=dead }}

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