Environment

Tarun Jami from Visakhapatnam started Green Jams, a company that creates Agrocrete, an alternative to concrete, from agricultural waste and industrial byproducts. Watch to know why.

Delhi resident Nirvaan Somany is using old denim jeans to make sleeping bags for street dwellers to stay warm in the harsh winter. He shares how he does this.

Kana Ram Mewada, a tea stall owner from UP, has come up with a unique way to collect and recycle kilos of plastic waste in and around his village, in a bid to make it plastic free.

Sarojini Mohanta from Odisha nurtured each of the saplings in a patch of the Bonai Forest Division as her own. Today, this forestland is named ‘Sarojini Vana’ in her honour.

Kerala businessman Musthafa Parammel Ambadi has transformed a former laterite mining land into Green Ara, a dense bamboo and Miyawaki forest with tropical plants, fruit trees, ponds, and more.

Bengaluru-based designer Poonam Bir Kasturi, founder of eco-friendly online store Daily Dump, has launched the Terrabite Home Composter, which uses the aerobic process to compost waste at home leaving no mess or odour.

Meera Chandran of Kerala founded Forest First Samithi, an NGO dedicated to manually removing invasive plant species and turning land back into forests with the help of the forest department and local communities.

Filmmaker Somanth Ghosh runs 'Brikkho Foundation', a unique initiative through which people can adopt plants and plant more trees.

Gary Bencheghib and his organisation Sungai Watch on average clean up close to 2 tonnes of plastic waste each day from the rivers and beaches of Indonesia. He is among the four Ramon Magsaysay awardees of 2022.

Warrior Moms, a national citizen action group, is battling for their children’s right to breathe clean air in polluted cities like Delhi, by engaging in urban mobility, waste management, biomass burning, and biodiversity protection.