IKEA: Asking people to buy climate-friendly furniture and products
IKEA India, the Swedish home-furnishing retailer, has begun a campaign called ‘A Better World Starts at Home’ to help customers live in a sustainable way. It aims at inspiring and enabling people to reduce their carbon footprint by using climate-friendly products. The company
Walmart Foundation: Helping farmers help themselves (and Walmart too?)
Walmart Foundation has begun collaboration on a programme that aims to benefit 10,000 smallholder farmers in Andhra Pradesh through the introduction of sustainable irrigation products and practices. The programme is being offered by the International Development Enterprises-India (IDEI) and supported with funding from
H&M Foundation: Funding and crowdfunding for sustainable fashion
H&M Foundation has launched an initiative with crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to engage with customers and enable them to take active part as supporters, backers and testers of innovative solutions. This is part of the Global Change Award instituted by the Foundation where winners
Volkswagen India: Restoring resources, the sustainable way
Volkswagen India and International Association for Human Values (IAHV) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a watershed-management project in Latur district, Maharashtra. The project aims to restore and sustain natural resources in the selected village cluster of Lasona, Indral, Wadmurambi and
No carbon emissions (with a caveat)
A landmark bill that would set a target of zero carbon emissions for New Zealand by 2050 was tabled in the country’s parliament last month. The bill requires the government to reduce biological methane by at least 10 per cent by 2030 and
Extinction no longer in question
Around one million plant and animal species face extinction due to human activities, resulting in severe biodiversity loss and posing a serious threat to ecosystems on which all living beings, including humans, depend for their survival, as per a new United Nations study.
The Body Shop: For healthcare and wildlife in the hills
The Body Shop India and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have collaborated in constructing public sanitation facilities at the Asanang Health Centre in West Garo Hills, Meghalaya. This, they say, has been done also as their way of recognising the efforts of the
Reducing plastic usage: Myth vs reality
Last year, CB reported that Starbucks was expected to eliminate more than one billion straws a year through its new strawless lid. This change was slated to occur in its 28,000-plus stores worldwide by 2020. The announcement was made with much fanfare and
The new green revolution – and the countries leading it
With many countries scrambling to beat the ticking clock that is global warming and adhere to the (admittedly non-binding) Paris Agreement, there has been encouraging news on clean energy of late with renewables gradually becoming the new normal. While CB previously took a
Tata Starbucks: Coffee with a side of green
Tata Starbucks has announced that it will completely transition to compostable and recyclable packaging solutions across its stores in India by World Environment Day (5 June 2019). The company has been working since 2012 to eliminate the use of single-use plastic in its