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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...
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...
Welcome to a Greener Banaras
When was the last time you truly lived in the present, unguarded and authentic? Are you familiar with the concept of "Allhdpan"? Or, have...
AI Can Reduce Poaching, Help Conservation
In a chat with Benedict Paramanand, Editor of SustainabilityNext, Bistra Dilkina, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director of the University of Southern...
Adani Green’s Mega Solar Plant Goes Live in 12 Months
Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), India’s largest renewable energy (RE) company and the second largest solar PV developer in the world, has operationalized 551...
Hindustan Zinc & Hindalco are Top 1% of S&P’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment Rating 2023
S & P released its 20th Sustainability Yearbook 2024 a few weeks ago. It considered over 9,400 companies in the 2023 Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). Two...
The Story of Bengaluru’s Confused Lakes: A Call to Action for Sustainable Lake Conservation
Bangalore is a city of lakes that date back to the 15th Century. Hebbal lake being the largest lake of Bengaluru, spanning 150 acres....
Connecting the Dots of the Indian Water Crisis
My mindful interactions with water probably began when I was about 10 years old when I looked forward to summer vacations. Our quarterly trips...
Dastkar: A Crafted Route to Development
Forty years ago, a few women friends who sat talking about why the skill sets and knowledge systems of craftspeople—India’s unique asset in an...
Love in the Times of Climate Change
In the year 2030, as sea levels continue to rise and storms loom ominously over the cityscape, likely Mumbai, a couple deeply enamoured with...
FM Introduces Bio-Manufacturing and Bio-Foundries at Interim Budget 2024
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a radical initiative - Bio-manufacturing and Bio-foundry during her Interim Budget 2024. It aims to provide environmentally friendly raw...
Blue Energy Motors Does the Work of 100,000 Trees in 3 Years
Blue Energy Motors, a pioneer in green truck manufacturing, said its fleet of trucks has successfully prevented over 2,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions since its...
Coca-Cola Achieves Carbon Neutrality at Bidadi Plant
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverage Pvt Ltd (HCCB), one of India’s leading FMCG companies, announced that its bottling plant in the Bidadi Industrial Area, 70-kms from...
Minor Millets offer Major Promise
It was a hot summer day in June in 2007. I was sitting on a large boulder watching construction activities at our farm. A...
IIT Madras Launches Energy Conservation Drive at Saarang 2024
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) once again set the stage for Saarang, its annual cultural extravaganza, largest student-run festival in the...
Gram Vikas and the MANTRA for Inclusive Community Development
Gram Vikas emerged from the work of a group of university students from then Madras, among the Kondh adivasi communities in Ganjam district of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
LEADER INTERVIEWS / THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
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...
The Beginning of India’s Second White Revolution
A few fresh, natural and organic farm-to-home milk supply firms are seriously stepping up their game across India using apps, technologies like internet-of-things (IOT),...
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Disability, Gender & The Trajectories of Power
This book argues for the rights of women with disabilities, who live on the periphery of society, and seeks to eradicate the exclusion and...
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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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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...
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...
AI Can Reduce Poaching, Help Conservation
In a chat with Benedict Paramanand, Editor of SustainabilityNext, Bistra Dilkina, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director of the University of Southern...
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New Standard For Sustainable Agriculture Certification
The 2017 SAN Standard is now available at www.san.ag and will come into force from July 2017
The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and the Rainforest...
Looking Back to Change Track
In 1997, when India celebrated 50 years of its Independence, TERI’s study Growth with Resource Enhancement of Environment and Nature (GREEN) India 2047 assessed...
Strategy for sustainability
By Adam Werbach and Dave Summers, American Management Association, November, 2014
More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and...
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Akshaya Patra Wins Nikkei Asia Award
Award ceremony held in Tokyo on Sunday, 29th May, 2016. Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa,
Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, received the award.
https://www.iskconbangalore.org/akshaya-patra-wins-nikkei-asia-prizes-japan/
Nikkei Asia has...