South India leading the clean-energy charge
As per a recent report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a US-based think tank, Tamil Nadu is one of the top nine markets in the world that sources a high percentage of its net energy needs from renewable
Starbucks: Eliminating plastic, one straw at a time
Starbucks has announced that it will not use disposable plastic straws in its 28,000-plus stores worldwide by 2020, a move that is expected to eliminate more than one billion straws a year. The new strawless lid, designed in-house, will become standard for all
PepsiCo Foundation: Water for beverages and water-stressed areas
A $4.26 million grant to provide safe-water access to communities in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala by December 2020 is to be provided to WaterAid, an international non-profit, by PepsiCo Foundation. This is part of the foundation’s endeavour to expand its water-access initiatives
Volkswagen: Building an environment-friendly school
A new primary-school building in Phadke-Wasti, Nighoje, has been inaugurated in the emerging industrial zone of Chakan, Pune. Developed solely by Volkswagen India as part of its CSR initiatives in education and skill development, the school can cater up to 120 students every
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