Home to more than 20 per cent of the planet's entire biodiversity, islands are our key to survival and yet they continue to be exploited and degraded. Island Conservation, a global non-profit organisation, is working to change this reality.
Switching to bamboo products is one of the easiest eco-friendly decisions you can make. From bamboo toothbrush to zero-electricity speakers, here's a shopping list for all things bamboo.
In Kerala, the Chavara Darsan CMI Public School is moving towards carbon neutrality with its ecofriendly initiative, growing a lush bamboo garden, organic vegetables, aquaculture farm, a herbal garden, and more on its campus.
With banana leaves, wheat and rice bran, millet waste and more, Coimbatore entrepreneur Kalyana Kumar has innovated machinery that can churn out eco-friendly and biodegradable single-use cutlery and containers.
Abdul Kareem from Kerala single-handedly turned 27 acres of barren land into a flourishing forest of 5000 trees that today hosts innumerable varieties of flora and fauna.
Want to build an ecofriendly home? Srinath Gautam and Vinoth Kumar run Bhutha Architecture, a sustainable architecture studio in Coimbatore that use the five 'Panch Bootha' elements.