Sustainability

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.

Coimbatore-based potter M Sivasamy has built an eco-friendly clay fridge that needs zero electricity to keep vegetables, fruits, curd, etc fresh for upto four days. Watch this video to see how his brilliant device works.

Bengaluru’s Pushpa and Kishan Kallianpur used permaculture to grow an organic food forest in Sri Sathya Sai district of Andhra Pradesh. Here’s how they transformed this piece of land.

Engineering graduate Athul Bos, an international biking award winner, left the engineering route to take up his passion for travel and turned an abandoned cottage into the the Jungle Hut, an eco-friendly mud home in Himachal Pradesh.

A Jagatheesan from Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, built a 1,000-sq-ft sustainable mud house for Rs 20 lakh to prove that they are just as strong as concrete ones.

Delhi fashion designer Meenakshi Sharma’s sustainable venture Use Me Works relies on the principle that “nothing is really waste”, and upcycles waste fabric into home decor, bags, clothes and more.

Manav Khanduja and Shyamendra Singhare, the co-founders of Pugdundee Safaris based in Haryana, share how they built a sustainable safari travel venture in the heart of India.

Harish Chandra, came to Auroville in 1993 and never left. Here’s how he built Natura, an organic self-care brand that focuses on natural products including soaps made of neem, coconut oil, moringa and more.

Arsh Bansal, a Bengaluru-based architect and entrepreneur launched Tenpy, a slow travel startup that builds tiny homes on the outskirts of the city, using sustainable materials.

Heat waves have killed 20,615 people in two decades. The government has laid out ‘Heat Action Plans’ to combat this but is that enough?