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India Urgently Needs a Water Vulnerability Index
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Water-efficient crop cultivation (especially irrigation) techniques today cover less than 20% of the total cultivable area under food grains in India. This low...
Cheap Power Could Make Cooking More Affordable
Greenway Grameen has been providing sustainable cooking solutions to rural communities since 2010. Founded by Ankit Mathur and Neha Juneja, the company designs and...
Generative AI Can Take Agriculture to the Next Level
The agriculture sector is the most primitive when it comes to using technology. But Gen AI is going to change that big time. In...
Amazon Cuts Extra Delivery Packaging by 83%
According to a recent study commissioned by Amazon, 69% of Indian consumers are content to receive their online purchases without extra packaging. This initiative...
2023 UNEP Earth Awards For Combatting Plastic Pollution
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced a city mayor, a non-profit foundation, a social enterprise, a government initiative and a research council as...
ESG Demystified
Globally, ESG has come under fire, which, experts say, is of its own making. Conceived a decade ago to rein in rogue companies from...
How Denial of Nature Deficit Disorder is Causing Bengaluru’s Water Crisis
Amidst the vibrant allure of Bengaluru's verdant landscapes and abundant water reservoirs lies a city grappling with a dire water crisis. Rapid urbanisation, a...
Most Indian Companies Still View Sustainability as Cost
A new study (March 2024) by global management consultancy Kearney has found that 72% of the Indian respondents view sustainability as a cost to...
Want to Take a Green Picture?
According to photographers, artists, galleries and museums, a company press note states, the quality is outstanding - so why not print as sustainably as...
Have You Killed An Idea Lately?
Key Mantras
Small steps can help prevent killing an idea.
Share your ideas widely, don’t just download others’ ideas.
Don’t hesitate to display ignorance.
Get surprised at least...
18% GST on Plastic Waste Should Go
Sachin Sharma left lucrative jobs at Morgan Stanley, Rabo Bank and Edelweiss to work on plastic waste recycling in 2013. An engineer and an IIM...
Indian Philanthropy Needs to Become More Inclusive, Long-term Oriented
Highlights
Move from focussing heavily on health and education to supporting conservation, liberal arts, and sports.
American Indian youth contributions are getting bigger
Philanthropy should be a...
Amazon Launches AI-guided Robot Recycling Startup
The Climate Pledge Fund and New Enterprise Associates are leading Glacier’s $7.7 million round, bringing the company’s total raised to $13 million. Amazon’s participation marks the second...
How India Can Leverage its GST Model for Building a Sustainable Future
Johan Rockstrom, recipient of the 2024 Tyler Prize, often dubbed the Nobel Prize in Environment, has warned that six of the nine planetary boundaries...
Mid-Day Meals That Educated Generations: Lessons from Tamil Nadu
This is an excerpt from a chapter written by Chandra Mohan and A.R. Meyyammai in “Anchoring Change: Seventy-five years of Grassroots Interventions that Made...
Alt Carbon to Help Farmers’ Improve Productivity
Shrey Agarwal, a 23-year-old Chemistry graduate from BITS Pilani, wants to permanently remove five million tons of CO2 durably and securely by 2030. His...
How AI Can Significantly Improve Farms’ 3Ps
In a free-wheeling chat with Benedict Paramanand, Editor of SustainabilityNext, Sanjay Borkar, co-founder of the Pune-based FarmERP, delves deep into how his company is...
Why India Should Support Lithium Battery Recycling
As the world transitions towards cleaner energy sources and electric mobility, the demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has skyrocketed. In India, this trend is...
Energy Conservation Theme A Big Hit at IIT Madras’ Saarang 2024
Saarang launched 'Urjam’. It emphasized the urgency of adopting sustainable practices in our daily lives. This campaign went beyond mere awareness creation, it actively...
Punjab and Haryana Farmers to Earn Carbon Credits for Sustainable Farming
Farmers in Punjab and Haryana, two of India's major rice and wheat-producing states, are set to be awarded carbon credits for adopting environmentally friendly...
Apply for ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year – India Award 2024’
Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organisation of the World Economic Forum, invite applications for the 15th edition of...
A Toolkit for India’s Green Transition
India, boasting over 1.4 billion people and representing a diverse culture with multiple languages, stands at a critical juncture. Surprisingly, the transition to net...
India Needs a Holistic Approach to Achieve Climate Goals
In Brief
Fragmented approach to climate goals needs to change
Strategy and execution need equal importance
Financial goals and climate goals can be achieved at the same...
Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
Uravu, a deep-tech startup based in Bangalore, tackles the global water crisis with a unique solution: extracting clean, drinkable water directly from the air....
Why Social Sustainability Matters More
There are several reasons behind the lack of focus on social sustainability. They are primarily related to the complexity of the concept itself and...
School for Climate Engineers
In a chat with Benedict Paramanand, Editor of SustainabilityNext, Dr Rohan Dutta, an Associate Professor at the Anant School of Climate Action, shares interesting...
The ESG Enigma
These days people often ask me questions like – what’s happening to ESG? Where is it headed? Which side are you on? I thought...
SN BOOK REVIEWS
How Environment Shapes Our Health
There is clearly poor understanding of how the health of humans is closely connected to the well-being of everything else around them; that human...
Exprovement – Exponential Improvement through Converging Parallels
The case study method of teaching in most business schools is blamed for a lack of creativity, innovation, and a risk-averse mindset among most...
SN BOOK SHELF
In Pursuit of Zero-Waste Living, Practically
Almost everyone today is aware that their consumption habits have a negative impact on the environment and are trying to do their bit in...
GREEN ENTREPRENEUR STORIES / CASE STUDIES / GREEN PRODUCTS / INNOVATION
Greenply’s 50 Million Saplings Bet
The Indian plywood industry appears to be one of the most sustainable sectors in India. Most plywood makers have got themselves certified with Forest Stewardship...
India Urgently Needs a Water Vulnerability Index
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Water-efficient crop cultivation (especially irrigation) techniques today cover less than 20% of the total cultivable area under food grains in India. This low...
LEADER INTERVIEWS / THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
How About a Lighter Version of BRSR for Smaller Firms?
Highlights of Arjun’s chat with SustainabilityNext
What is India's approach to ESG, and do you think there's a need for change?
India's approach to ESG has...
Green Cement Pioneer is Out to Capture Carbon in Tons
Late management guru CK Prahalad famously said “Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.”
Mahendra Singhi has proved CK right. In...
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IIT Madras and Verizon Take Engineering Opportunities to Rural Students
Through
a unique mentorship programme called ‘1Lab-1
School,’ Indian Institute of
Technology Madras is connecting top-notch graduate laboratories to the high
schools of rural Tamil Nadu. The programme,...
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A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, Leadership and Courage from India’s...
Bill Gates calls this book “A powerful story of hope that deserves to be widely read.”
This book is an account of...
Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Amazon recently launched its Sustainability Data Initiative to provide access to large datasets in the cloud to help researchers and innovators address a wide...
Green Leader's ChatRoom
Good Data is a Big Problem in India
BCT Digital, a market leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance management space, has got into ESG monitoring space recently with a strong 60-member team....
Say What’s Truly On Your Mind
John Elkington calls himself the Ambassador of the Future. Author, entrepreneur, publisher, advisor, John inaugurated Greenlitfest, India’s first green literature festival, on 8 December...
Is Green Hydrogen a Hype or a Hope?
India believes that green hydrogen could solve much of its fuel problems in the near future. Green hydrogen is no longer a dream or...
KKR Launches Council to Drive ESG Strategy
Global alternative asset and private equity investor KKR recently announced the launch of its Sustainability Expert Advisory Council (SEAC), a six-member independent council aimed...
Bridging Funding Gaps Key to India Keeping Its COP26 Promises
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made ambitious commitments at his speech at COP26 Summit, at Glasgow in November 2021, and spoke of India’s successful track...
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Can Bengaluru be Water Positive in 2 Years?
Yes, if you listen to a bunch of people driving a spirited campaign to turn the city's water woes around. Understandably, the current acute drinking...
India Urgently Needs a Water Vulnerability Index
Top Recommendations
Water-efficient crop cultivation (especially irrigation) techniques today cover less than 20% of the total cultivable area under food grains in India. This low...
How Denial of Nature Deficit Disorder is Causing Bengaluru’s Water Crisis
Amidst the vibrant allure of Bengaluru's verdant landscapes and abundant water reservoirs lies a city grappling with a dire water crisis. Rapid urbanisation, a...
Amazon Launches AI-guided Robot Recycling Startup
The Climate Pledge Fund and New Enterprise Associates are leading Glacier’s $7.7 million round, bringing the company’s total raised to $13 million. Amazon’s participation marks the second...
A Toolkit for India’s Green Transition
India, boasting over 1.4 billion people and representing a diverse culture with multiple languages, stands at a critical juncture. Surprisingly, the transition to net...
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Want to Eat Laddoos Made From Beer Waste?
In a world where sustainability is the buzzword of the hour, food waste doesn’t take the center stage. Imagine this - that inviting, malty...
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters – Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
By Lisa Bjorkman, Duke University Press, August 2016
Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India’s celebrated economic upturn, but the city’s transformation...
Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife by James R....
For the better part of the last century, “preservation” and “multi-use conservation” were the watchwords for managing federal lands and resources. But in the...
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Half of Millennials Ready to Quit Over Value Misalignment
The pressure on businesses to be more responsible is growing. Surveys indicate employees are ready to quit if there is value misalignment with their...