TAKE Solutions: Restoring water bodies, saving environment
An initiative to adopt several ponds and lakes, clean water bodies, plant trees, and educate the local community about maintaining natural resources has been taken up by TAKE Solutions in partnership with Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) across Tamil Nadu. The water body
World Environment Day: India’s plastic menace and the corporate response
In the run-up to World Environment Day (WED), CB was bombarded with emails from multiple companies with details of their ‘innovative’ sustainability and environment-friendly policies and initiatives. This mad rush was partly due to the special focus on India this year (it was
AARC: Managing waste through alliances
To strengthen the end-to-end waste-management ecosystem and increase recycling efforts through stakeholder engagement across the value chain, leading corporations have come together to form the Action Alliance for Recycling Beverage Cartons (AARC). It is a first-of-its-kind initiative to promote and increase recycling by
Parched cities – the new normal
Recently, the news that Cape Town was going to run out of drinking water for its inhabitants made shockwaves across the globe. The very idea that a modern city wouldn’t be able to provide water to its citizens seemed right out of some
No takers for holy rivers?
[dropcap size=big]R[/dropcap]ecently, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) approved a number of projects worth nearly Rs 4,000 crore, for various cities and towns of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. NMCG is the central decision-making body that is responsible for the implementation
10,000 Hero Green Corps are environment guardians of Delhi
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n what is arguably the first environment-focused programme of this scale in India, an army of Green Corps is being prepared by Hero MotoCorp under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) project titled Ankur. The Green Corps is comprised of students from a
Applications open: Martha Farrell Award for Excellence in Women’s Empowerment; Global Change Award
Martha Farrell Award [dropcap size=big]F[/dropcap]ollowing last year’s inaugural award that received 125 nominations, the second Martha Farrell Award for Excellence in Women’s Empowerment has been announced. Dr Martha Farrell was a passionate civil society leader, renowned and respected in India and around the
Ecofeminism and why you should care about it
Feminism is a beautiful enabler. The very fact that this author is free to write this article without resorting to a masculine pseudonym shows how far we have come from the days of George Eliot. Whatever your understanding of the term ‘feminism’ (basic
Watching birds near your home is good for your mental health: Study
[dropcap size=big]P[/dropcap]eople living in neighbourhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and stress, according to research by academics at the University of Exeter, the British Trust for Ornithology, and the University of Queensland. The study,
Backed by celebrities, UN campaign seeks to mobilise millions to end illegal trade in wildlife
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he United Nations, backed by celebrities from across the globe, has launched a campaign against the illegal trade in wildlife which is pushing species to the brink of extinction, robbing countries of their natural heritage, and profiting international criminal networks. ‘Each year,