Sustainability

Anusuya Samantaray, a student of Ku Leuven University in Belgium, along with her friends Varun Singh and Apoorva Vardhan, has innovated edible alternatives for single-use plastic items like spoons and cups using a by-product from breweries.

Dr Varad Giri is a herpetologist who has created hundreds of citizen scientists by helping them discover new species of amphibians and reptiles

Veena Lal from Faridabad has built a unique sustainable home - using mud, stone and wood. The eco-friendly house uses no ACs and the toilets use no additional water.

About 17,000 students graduate from India’s architecture colleges with deficient skills to design environmentally responsible buildings. But here are some solutions to that.

Making lithium-ion batteries, which contain cobalt and lithium, comes with significant economic and environmental costs. Enter Lohum, a Noida-based integrated lithium-ion battery manufacturer and recycler addressing the most critical challenge facing the EV sector globally.

A sustainable startup, Ricron Panels was started by Rahul Chaudhary to recycle multi-layer plastic into sheets that are fire-retardant, waterproof, termite-proof and heat-resistant

Here's a list of five places that offer eco-friendly and handmade rakhis for Raksha Bandhan, including those that can be planted, as well as those from jute, cotton, and terracotta.

Moryar Gudda or ‘Hill of the Dwarfs’ in Hire Benakal village of Karnataka is not just one of India’s largest necropolises, it is also one of the oldest megalithic sites in the world.

Viinod and Beena Nair left their city lives in Mumbai to open an eco-friendly homestay in Vasunde village, made from ethnic architecture under a 100-year-old banyan tree

A resident of Merces in Goa, Madhusudhan Joshi doesn't pay a single rupee for his electricity bills, thanks to a sustainable home that's powered by solar energy.