Arshinder Kaur has worked from the academic level to the grassroots to enhance her community's understanding of environmental sustainability. She is actively involved in Navdanya, a participatory research initiative to support environmental activism, particularly in the area of food security and indigenous knowledge and culture. Arshinder has organized and coordinated schools with Navdanya on themes of organic food and culture, Gandhi and non- violence, soil as a living system, water democracy and the Third International Conference on Water and Women 2005. Presently, Arshinder is working on the biodiversity, traditional rights of people in Madhya Pradesh, India and the impacts of exploration work on the immediate communities.