sustainability

While plastic was a no-no for a very long time, Kalpana Manivannan has also started making soaps, shampoos & body-butter at home to ensure no mass-produced chemicals affect her family!

"How different would our rural areas be if so many more take up such incredible challenges, instead of their expertise being laid to rest after retirement?," writes a deeply impressed IAS officer Armstrong Pame.

Through an immersive cardboard experience, Cardboard advocates the usage of environment-friendly products and renewable materials, with combating climate change and global warming as their frontrunner objective.

It was for her PhD research on the political ecology of markets for biodiversity conservation that first brought Arshiya Bose to coffee farming regions in the Western Ghats.

Kollam native Mohan Kumar has completely phased out plastic bags from his store and only uses cloth bags and now, he wants to take it further.

Rajesh & Vallari’s home is powered by the sun, covers nine months of water requirements through rainwater harvesting, grows 80 per cent of its food organically and is also car-free!

It is reported that India’s largest power generation equipment manufacturer will be designing a central monitoring system to support the objective of this ambitious project.

In 2015, the two decided to take matters into their own hands and find a solution to the problem of sanitary waste.

He was was recently conferred with the 'Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Constructive Work for 2018 ' by Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation (JBF).

The program is meant to focus on scaling innovations for smart cities, cleantech, agri-tech, life sciences, and education.