 Hi, I am Sushmita working as a senior research fellow with SAI Asia. The work that I focus on is at the intersection of forest and freshwater ecosystems conservation in relation to community livelihoods. The focus is that we have to move away from just techno scientific solutions to look at how community knowledges and perspectives can be part of the solutions mix. In a world where we are undergoing a climate crisis, the need of the hour is to recognize that there are plural ways of solving the problems that we are currently facing. In doing this at SAI Asia on this world environment day which the theme of which is one only one earth, the focus is on how do we co-create and co-produce knowledge with communities who are often seen as recipients of expertise and not experts themselves. To make SAI Asia more awesome would be to have more get-togethers and celebrate our diversity through foods, through arts and through crafts.