Except on Environment Day, that is. Sounds as cynical as it gets, I know. Hopefully it is also actually as cynical as I mean it to be. Just the other day, at Delhi’s Lodhi Garden – child and I were doing some reading outdoors – we saw a man on a nearby bench throwing…
Tea estates in India span three predominant geographical locations: Assam, Darjeeling and the Dooars, encompassing thousands of hectares. Given that global warming is increasing, tea estates have a pivotal role in conserving biodiversity. It is estimated that 70% of tea lands in India are on the periphery of forests, as a result of which plantations…
Think of the untapped potential of millions of poor children who have it in their genes to achieve great things, but fail to do so because they lack the tools to ignite their innate curiosity and express their creativity. Imagine these poor children in a hot and dusty village busy doing experiments and projects, talking…
So, there’s an obsessive compulsion to check the news every hour (two hours at the most?). Terrifying as the news is, the need is there. Maybe partially to prepare oneself for whatever is unfolding out there and then get a fuzzy idea about what may therefore unfold in the immediate future. All quite pointless in…
Sustainability has rapidly become one of fashion’s favourite buzzwords. In an age where the interdependencies of environmental catastrophe and social impacts are becoming increasingly clear, fashion has become an ideal vehicle to explore sustainability – a way to intersect our society’s love for visual culture with the crises of our generation. My journey into…
So much is happening in the world, it’s all quite too much. Somewhere women are being conferred with the Nobel for chemistry and physics, elsewhere someone is getting raped and all but butchered. People are dying of hunger and other people are fearful of dying due to complications related to obesity/being overweight from overeating/bad eating….
While Covid-19 remains the most impactful event from 2020, the year also saw bushfires, flash floods, earthquakes, locust swarms and cyclones – all connected with climate change one way or the other. The need to monitor and control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across various industries has never been more important. Aviation is a significant contributor…
A country blessed with an abundance of water resources and large rivers is currently facing the terrifying possibility of becoming a water-scarce country by 2025. That is the dichotomy facing India today. Understanding this, Pernod Ricard India has consistently pursued the goal of managing water systems for long-term sustainability with agile demand management, mitigating wasteful…
Here’s the thing, the situation, and the dilemma, if you may. For any sector/industry that is polluting, or heavy on the carbon footprint thing, or guzzles way too much energy, or is just intrinsically not sustainable business, and therefore either should be phased out or operate at the most basic level and with minimal resources/renewable…
‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein In all of the economic and social progress taking place across the globe, energy is the driving factor and, therefore, the most important resource. As per a report by International Energy Agency (IEA), globally around 80% of…
