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
National Geographic: Harnessing women power to solve plastic pollution in oceans
The ‘Sea to Source: Ganges’ river expedition, in partnership with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), the University of Dhaka, and WildTeam, is part of an initiative by National Geographic to understand and document how plastic waste travels from source to sea, and
The end is nigh: Global warming is here
A new report states that it could take as little as 31 years before a majority of humankind is destroyed by climate change. The report, What Lies Beneath – The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk, is by Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration