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Apple’s Climate Neutrality Commitment: Unanswered Questions
The recent pledge by Apple to make all of its products carbon neutral by 2030 represents a significant advancement in the tech sector's efforts...
Green Memoir of an NRI
Ram shares his sustainable childhood memories of his early life in Hyderabad. He reminisces about India’s rich cultural lore, sustainable practices, and a wisdom-filled...
Real Estate Sector Called to Embark on Decarbonization Swiftly
The real estate sector is known to contribute to a third of a city’s polluted air yet it is the slowest in embarking on...
Sustainable Gifting Has Massive Potential
The corporate gifting market in India is around Rs.12,000 crores and is growing at 25 percent a year. Given the growing trend towards sustainable...
6 books about the climate crisis that offer hope
Coral bleaching, floods, bushfire, biodiversity decline and extinction – as we witness the effects of climate change, amid a stream of reports warning of the cost of government inaction, it is easy...
Landfill-free Nation?
Wilma Rodrigues is one of India’s prominent social entrepreneurs. She was named the Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 by Action for India,...
G20 Adopts 5 Goals for Greener Future
Adoption of the New Delhi Declaration on Climate Change and Sustainability. The G20 leaders adopted the New Delhi Declaration at the 2023 summit in...
Eco-friendly Business: Tips To Get Started
With 72% of research respondents reporting they were actively buying more environmentally friendly products than they did five years ago and 81% saying they expect to...
Back to the Future
Nagaraja Prakasam’s book Back to Bharat – In Search of a Sustainable Future packs in a lot of tough dilemmas India, the world, entrepreneurs, policymakers, the...
India Begins to Embrace Green Web Hosting
The Indian green web hosting market is growing rapidly as businesses and individuals look for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. A recent study...
Coca-Cola Launches 100% Recycled PET Bottles
Coca-Cola India recently launched new bottles made from 100% recycled PET plastic material (rPET). This is the first time in India that any bottle made with 100% rPET is...
Karnataka to Open India’s First Environment Science University
The state government of Karnataka, in its 2023-24 budget, announced an ambitious plan to establish India's first-ever Environment Science University in the picturesque town...
Hexpressions and Bare Necessities Win 2023 Green Entrepreneurship Awards
Adelphi, in partnership with the IKEA Foundation, announced the winners of the prestigious Green Entrepreneurship Awards 2023. The awards, a vital component of Adelphi's...
United Nations Offers Free Sustainability Courses
The United Nations is offering a series of free online courses on sustainability. The courses are open to anyone who is interested in learning...
Cut Tourist Flow to Nilgiris
If the plan to make Nilgiris a carbon-neutral zone is to become a reality there is a need to define its tourist carrying capacity...
Affordable Water Treatment Champion
India gets more than sufficient rains yet people in most of its cities face acute drinking water shortage. People in cities and towns suffer...
Glass Buildings Attract Light, Not Heat
Environmentalists say cities are getting warmer because of extensive use of glass in new buildings. Suhel Kachwala, Managing Director, FG Glass, which supplied glass...
Allbirds Introduces First Green Shoe
Allbirds, the innovative footwear company, unveiled the M0.0NSHOT shoe, the world's first net zero carbon shoe. The shoe was released at the Global Fashion...
ESG: Big Companies Should Handhold vendors
Not long ago, companies in developed nations outsourced risky, environmentally hazardous jobs to smaller businesses in developing and underdeveloped countries. Thankfully, with the advent...
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Exprovement – Exponential Improvement through Converging Parallels
The case study method of teaching in most business schools is blamed for a lack of creativity, innovation, and a risk-averse mindset among most...
Back to the Future
Nagaraja Prakasam’s book Back to Bharat – In Search of a Sustainable Future packs in a lot of tough dilemmas India, the world, entrepreneurs, policymakers, the...
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In Pursuit of Zero-Waste Living, Practically
Almost everyone today is aware that their consumption habits have a negative impact on the environment and are trying to do their bit in...
GREEN ENTREPRENEUR STORIES / CASE STUDIES / GREEN PRODUCTS / INNOVATION
Women-run Electric Autos in Dantewada
In the supposedly backward district of India, one of the most modern trends is taking place. Members of a women self-help group run 86...
Dantewada is India’s Organic Rice Capital
It was indeed courageous of the Chhattisgarh government to hold the ‘Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit in Dantewada on 14 November 2017. Security was in full...
LEADER INTERVIEWS / THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Green Cement Pioneer is Out to Capture Carbon in Tons
Late management guru CK Prahalad famously said “Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.”
Mahendra Singhi has proved CK right. In...
The Beginning of India’s Second White Revolution
A few fresh, natural and organic farm-to-home milk supply firms are seriously stepping up their game across India using apps, technologies like internet-of-things (IOT),...
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Grain by Grain: Green rating of the fertilizer sector
The book benchmarks the fertiliser industry on the whole, as well as individual plants. It highlights the best practices in the hope that they...
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A Stranger Truth: Lessons in Love, Leadership and Courage from India’s...
Bill Gates calls this book “A powerful story of hope that deserves to be widely read.”
This book is an account of...
Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Amazon recently launched its Sustainability Data Initiative to provide access to large datasets in the cloud to help researchers and innovators address a wide...
Green Leader's ChatRoom
Say What’s Truly On Your Mind
John Elkington calls himself the Ambassador of the Future. Author, entrepreneur, publisher, advisor, John inaugurated Greenlitfest, India’s first green literature festival, on 8 December...
Is Green Hydrogen a Hype or a Hope?
India believes that green hydrogen could solve much of its fuel problems in the near future. Green hydrogen is no longer a dream or...
KKR Launches Council to Drive ESG Strategy
Global alternative asset and private equity investor KKR recently announced the launch of its Sustainability Expert Advisory Council (SEAC), a six-member independent council aimed...
Bridging Funding Gaps Key to India Keeping Its COP26 Promises
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made ambitious commitments at his speech at COP26 Summit, at Glasgow in November 2021, and spoke of India’s successful track...
M&M Enters the World Index of DJSI
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M) has entered the World Index list of Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) 2021. Out of the five Indian companies...
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15 Grassroots Civil Society Case Studies Show Path Towards Climate Resilience
ClimateRISE Alliance, a collaborative platform dedicated to accelerating India's journey towards climate resilience for its most vulnerable communities, launched its compendium, 'Interwoven Futures: How Civil...
Apple’s Climate Neutrality Commitment: Unanswered Questions
The recent pledge by Apple to make all of its products carbon neutral by 2030 represents a significant advancement in the tech sector's efforts...
Landfill-free Nation?
Wilma Rodrigues is one of India’s prominent social entrepreneurs. She was named the Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 by Action for India,...
India Begins to Embrace Green Web Hosting
The Indian green web hosting market is growing rapidly as businesses and individuals look for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. A recent study...
Dr. Devi Shetty’s 5 Mantras to Transform India’s Healthcare
India needs healthcare reforms urgently if it wants the poor to get better access to it. It is easy and universal healthcare can be...
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Apopo – Making Rats Man’s Best Friend
By Tania Ellis, The Social Business Company
When dealing with the societal and environmental challenges we face today, the most common approach is often the...
Leaving Room for Nature
By Aparna Kher
A boy notices a small sapling on a dusty path that runs through a busy village, and instinctively protects it with stones....
How 33 Technologies Save Energy, Increase Profits – McKinsey &...
Energy accounts for a sizable share of company operating costs. A McKinsey & Company’s August 2015 report details 33 technologies to improve energy efficiency—and...
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Peace Dove “Franz Xaver Gruber” Travels from Austria to India at...
Chitkara University hosted prominent artist and painter, KK Gandhi, who was recently chosen as the "Messenger of Peace" during his stay as "Artist in...