This chapter presents an alternative analysis of the environmental movements in the late twentieth century, where the lens of technological use was reposited to appropriate the self-assertion of the different dissident voices. Since the late 1980s, this chapter argues, an alternative discourse on development was formulated by capitalizing on the rising tide of democratic/participative movement. The prominence of such movement lay in their prioritization of people as stakeholders of the natural resources and shaping up of the “mass-based” movement which opened up an unprecedented collaboration between “think tanks” and grassroot activism. Such activism, as illustrated through the example of Anil Agarwal, banked primarily on the local-knowledge-based technologies and crusaded against the hegemonic march of “modern” development marked by exclusion and non-egalitarian ideas.