Sustainability

Kerala-based Vinayakumar Balakrishnan runs Thooshan with his wife Indira. Together they make eco-friendly tableware using rice and wheat bran. Here’s their story.

Saranya and Devakumar Narayan, a Kerala-based couple, run Papla, an eco-friendly startup that makes tableware and other items of out areca leaves.

Dr Arya Gopi and Joby Joseph from Kerala built their sustainable home using very little concrete and walls that needed no plastering.

Krishnan Subramanian and Gowri Gopinath quit their jobs to return to Madurai and start YellowBag, an eco-friendly venture that sells the traditional Manjapai, or yellow bags, to encourage people to switch to cloth bags.

Ruchi Jain, a Pune-based entrepreneur, runs Paivi, an eco-friendly startup that manufactures edible straws to eliminate single-use plastic.

From the extreme Himalayan weather, unpredictable climate changes to natural disasters like earthquakes, the Tabo Monastery has weathered several storms, teaching the world a valuable lesson on sustainability.

Chavara Public School in Kerala is working its way to becoming Kerala’s first carbon-neutral school through its unique green initiatives.

Amrish Patel's luxurious house in Ahmedabad is eco-friendly as it harnesses the energy of the sun for powering gadgets and even purifying their drinking water.

Bengaluru-based Vaibhav Anant quit his job to launch the eco-friendly startup Bambrew, which makes packaging with bamboo and wood pulp to replace plastic.

An environment hero at age 8, Thaaragai Arathana from Chennai started diving when she was just 5 years old. She now fishes out plastic waste from the ocean to conserve marine life.