Mahindra: 1.3 billion trees for 1.3 billion people
Mahindra Group’s recently launched initiative, #CelebrateDifferently, aims to motivate citizens to plant a tree – and for those who are not able to do so, they can like, share, or comment on #CelebrateDifferently and the company will plant a tree on their behalf
Club Mahindra: Resorting to clean and green practices
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd’s Coorg resort (Virajpet) in Karnataka has received India’s first ‘zero waste to landfill (ZWL) resort’ certification from Intertek, a quality assurance provider to industries worldwide. This certification was the result of several initiatives such as recycling and
CauseBecause evaluates SRoI and impact of social projects of corporates as well as NGOs
CauseBecause’s research and evaluations wing has been steadily scaling up and expanding its footprints at the grassroots, especially in regions where social-development projects are being executed by large corporate groups and donor foundations. In the last FY, CauseBecause was commissioned to carry out
Coming together to rejuvenate a dying lake
United Way Bengaluru (UWBe), BBMP and Citizen’s Group have begun an initiative to construct an ecofriendly sewage treatment plant (STP) of 1 million litres a day (1MLD) capacity at the Mahadevapura Lake in Bengaluru. To be accomplished in partnership with various corporates in
redBus: Crowded cities, pooling solutions
A new carpooling service for intra-city commute, called rPool, has been launched by redBus, an online bus-ticketing platform. This new service allows office goers to avail and offer rides in their personal cars, while commuting between home and their workplaces, and is being
Tata Power: Switch off energy, switch on sustainability
A three-month pledge campaign called ‘Switch off to Switch on’ has been launched by Tata Power Club Enerji to help conserve energy and curb wastage. Begun on World Environment Day (June 5), the campaign has involved children as ambassadors of energy conservation. It
Jaquar Group: Green certificates for a green factory
Jaquar Group’s bath-fittings manufacturing unit in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, has received the ‘Platinum’ LEED Green Building Certification from US Green Building Council (USGBC). This is the company’s largest manufacturing plant. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the most widely used green-building
DCB Bank: Going where the dolphins are
A partnership to conserve the endangered Indus River dolphin in the Beas Conservation Reserve has been announced by DCB Bank and WWF-India. Working with the Department of Forests and Wildlife Preservation (DFWP), Government of Punjab, the two organisations will implement initiatives on education,
The Body Shop: Talking business with recycled plastic
On World Fair Trade Day (marked on the second Saturday of May every year), The Body Shop launched its first Community Trade recycled plastic, in partnership with Plastics For Change, Hasiru Dala, and Hasiru Dala Innovations. Sourced from Bengaluru, this is part of
When the world’s biggest corporates wake up to climate change
The biggest companies in the world have awakened to the fact that climate change is going to dramatically alter their businesses, including their bottomlines, a new report by CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has found in its analysis. The report, Global Climate