Sustainable Living and Working: The Ideas Series  – Gayatri  Divecha, Godrej

Sustainable Living and Working: The Ideas Series
– Gayatri  Divecha, Godrej

Nov 3, 2020

I strongly believe that meaningful change can only happen when three things come together 1.       We engage with others and learn from them, recognising that there is so much out there to learn from. 2.       We make

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Sustainable Living and Working: The Ideas Series  – Anirban Ghosh, Mahindra Group

Sustainable Living and Working: The Ideas Series
– Anirban Ghosh, Mahindra Group

Oct 22, 2020

What does it take to be really sustainable in a rapidly-changing world? That question is more crucial now than ever before, because we have seen what is possible when we don’t drive, don’t litter, don’t crowd markets and malls, don’t produce construction dust,

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Biodiversity loss and climate change: How human greed leads to pandemics

Biodiversity loss and climate change: How human greed leads to pandemics

Sep 1, 2020

Covid-19 has changed the world, mostly for the worse. The pandemic has resulted in hundreds and thousands of deaths, millions of infections, global lockdowns resulting in a recession whose effects we are yet to see or even comprehend, millions losing their jobs and

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How The Live Love Laugh Foundation is living up to its name

How The Live Love Laugh Foundation is living up to its name

Jul 20, 2020

The three verbs in the name of this organisation founded by Indian film actor Deepika Padukone appear to have been chosen with thought, care and deliberation, to send out a message to all concerned that any conversation around mental health is pointless without

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CSR post-Covid-19: A floor test for India Inc.?  Hear it from top decision makers  

CSR post-Covid-19: A floor test for India Inc.? Hear it from top decision makers  

Jun 24, 2020

With inputs from: Aditya Birla Group | Hero MotoCorp | Tata Power | Toyota | Volvo | Mahindra | Standard Chartered | Piramal Swasthya   What if the company does not make profits? Will your social interventions be able to sustain themselves?  

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Five years of Hero MotoCorp’s CSR: Outcomes from evaluations

Five years of Hero MotoCorp’s CSR: Outcomes from evaluations

Jun 23, 2020

In March, just before the lockdown started, I managed a visit to Imphal to evaluate if Mary Kom’s boxing academy was doing fine. I had to meet a few kids training under her and maybe predict if the academy had the potential to

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CSR for Covid-19 – some confusions despite FAQs

CSR for Covid-19 – some confusions despite FAQs

Apr 15, 2020

Over a week before the launch of Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES Fund), several corporate groups were mulling over ways in which to do their bit towards relief measures for the Covid-19 pandemic with their corporate social

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How Corporate India is coming together against the coronavirus

How Corporate India is coming together against the coronavirus

Apr 13, 2020

By now, enough and more has been written about the COVID-19 (or coronavirus) pandemic. The novel virus has managed to do two novel things: simultaneously lock up at least a third of the world’s population, including the one-fifth of humanity that resides in

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Australia is burning: How global warming is linked to bushfires

Australia is burning: How global warming is linked to bushfires

Feb 20, 2020

While the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests were”rightfully”burning up the country, another fire engulfed a continent-country. Usually on the margins of international news, Australia’s bushfires have been raging since September 2019 and engulfed massive swathes of this gigantic land, concentrating on the eastern

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Fossil fuel fuels global warming and how they lie about it

Fossil fuel fuels global warming and how they lie about it

Feb 7, 2020

In October last year, a damning report on the top 20 polluting firms in the world was released. As per an analysis by Richard Heede at the US-based Climate Accountability Institute, 20 fossil fuel companies are responsible for more than one-third of all

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