Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India: Ladies-only lessons
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India recently conducted an all-female digital road-safety awareness training as part of its ‘Honda Road Safety E-Gurukul’ initiative. The company claims that over 160 women in six cities across South and West India learnt how to ride safe through
Hindalco: From mud waste to useful cement
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Hindalco Industries Ltd, one of the global leaders in aluminium and copper, and UltraTech Cement Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of cement, as per which Hindalco will deliver 1.2 million metric tonnes of red mud
Friendicoes and PokerBaazi: Partners in feeding Delhi’s stray animals
Friendicoes, Delhi’s oldest animal shelter, has collaborated with PokerBaazi.com, one of India’s leading gaming platforms, to provide aid to stray animals who have been left unattended during the ongoing global pandemic. This initiative is a part of the #FeltsForStrays campaign that was started
Clean green, clean better
Unilever has pledged to eliminate fossil fuel-based ingredients from its cleaning products by 2030. As part of a €1 billion Clean Future initiative that also aims to help the company cut the use of virgin plastic in half, the company plans to replace
Utilities need to turn over a green leaf
A new study has found that only 1 in 10 of the world’s electric utility companies is prioritising clean renewable energy over fossils fuels. The research by the University of Oxford and published in the journal Nature Energy states that a majority of
What can we do (or not do) to keep air pollution down: Ideas from a 10-year-old
Air pollution is ghastly, but there certainly is a lot of it. Everywhere in the world, there is a bit”in some places it’s more, some have it less. When the whole world had a lockdown period, pollution had decreased a great deal due
Artificial intelligence can make communities ‘anti-fragile’
Most natural disasters come upon us in an unprecedented tone. It becomes awfully difficult to come to terms with the damage that natural disasters cause to human lives and resources. And if you put a pandemic into the mix, like it happened this
ASICS: Getting recycled materials in their shoes and packaging
The uppers of the new collection’s six running shoe models and three SportStyle offerings employ recycled polyester fibres made from a total of around 300,000 PET bottles. These items represent the first stage of an ASICS drive to switch to 100% recycled polyester
Cognizant and Grundfos: On a mission to restore Chennai’s Sembakkam Lake
Cognizant and Grundfos have announced funding support for the restoration of the Sembakkam Lake in Chennai. While Cognizant, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, will contribute over INR 2.7 crores (approx. USD 360,000), Grundfos will contribute INR 1.7 crores (approx. USD
Biodiversity loss and climate change: How human greed leads to pandemics
Covid-19 has changed the world, mostly for the worse. The pandemic has resulted in hundreds and thousands of deaths, millions of infections, global lockdowns resulting in a recession whose effects we are yet to see or even comprehend, millions losing their jobs and