How well do companies know their sustainability practices?
We take the back-packet route to, well, find out
There’s this little important detail on every product that we buy – the manufacturer’s contact coordinates (address, phone number, email ID), wherein we can send in feedback and/or complaints. Easy to miss, and we actually do. Unless maybe we are saddled with a
Talk Straight, Talk Sustainability
Brig. Rajiv Williams, Jindal Stainless Ltd
The growing number of consumers in India who are conscious about various environmental and social issues reflects a trend and a way of thinking that is picking up globally. These consumers prefer associating with – buying, consuming, propagating about, endorsing – products, brands
Planting trees? Yes! Are they doing fine? Maybe. Or maybe not. Actually no idea!
What do these diverse entities – PayPal, Capgemini, Cyient Foundation, Vanarai, NMDC, Amrita University – have in common? You guessed it. Yes, they have all issued press releases informing that they have planted s0-and-so number of saplings, and will keep doing so until
Understanding SRoI
It’s not just economic analysis of social projects
‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
The consumer in me, the me in this consumer
Some quick notes on being a conscious consumer
If there’s one thing I know with ever more certainty today, it is that I could know much better about stuff. The good stuff, you know. The kind of stuff that is good for the earth. The kind of good that is way
(Re)Imagining 2030
When the SDGs are expected to be a reality, more or less
Let’s hope it’s more rather than less. Because there’s no exaggerating what’s at stake here, but also because the year 2030 has become a milestone that the world is collectively moving towards, some more enthusiastically and seriously than others but these sentiments hopefully
Are CSR stories deflecting our attention from companies’ sustainability?
Notes on India’s top CSR spenders
Companies covered Reliance Industries | ONGC | Tata Consultancy Services | HDFC Bank | Infosys Companies seeking to squeeze the most brand value out of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) spends is fair enough. Yet, when they go on and on
Diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) at workplaces and why these matter
Years of identity-related activism and discourse have finally borne fruit with anti-sexual harassment policies, gender and racial diversity, and unconscious-bias trainings going mainstream and becoming a key part of modern workplaces. And the biggest proof of this encouraging turn of events is the
The sustainable fashion edit
Featuring (some of) India’s most sustainable clothing brands
So, I was looking up some numbers concerning the fashion industry, in particular its current value and future projections. As per a study (by Kantar) released early in 2020, in terms of clothing the global market should increase by 3.9% each year until
Takeaways from Coffee for Cause, Edition 5
– Conversations around sustainability and CSR
Of course Coffee for Cause had to go virtual this year, and like everything else about the past year, the newness of it had Team CB both excited and apprehensive about how easily or freely the conversations would flow. After all, flowing conversations