In this episode, Tania and Kinshuk meet Swapnil Shrivastav. He is the founder and CEO of Uravu labs, a company working on extracting water from air. Water from thin air - wouldn't that be something? Swapnil explains in meticulous detail the technology, its benefits and applications.  ..read more

Today the Sustainably Yours team speaks to Nikit on the usage of satellite data for making the world a sustainable place. Nikit is the founder of Tathya.Earth - a start up focusing on the real time monitoring of global supply chain and its impact on the environment.  What will you learn from this episode?  How is satellite data important and what are the potential applications?  How is Tathya.Earth using the data to make accurate observations?  What more is happening in the satellite data space in India?  .. and a lot more ..read more

What is the toughest thing to recycle? MLP or Multi-layered plastic. Who is recycling it today in India -  no one that we knew of. It is largely getting burnt for energy recovery - producing harmful fumes and what not. Only may be 2-3% of the entire volume is potentially going for pyrolysis. Anish Malpani and his team at Ashaya are recycling what no one recycles - Multi layered plastic (those tetra pack milk bottles and chips packets). And to demonstrate use case of the recycled plastic, they made the coolest products - sunglasses - that don't break. Today the Sustainably Yours team mem ..read more

The world population will reach 10 bn by 2050. A growing concern is, how to meet the protein requirements of this expanding population. Even today, the world has 1 billion cattle, 25 billion chicken, almost 1 billion pigs and numerous fish and shrimp farms. We need to feed these animals to eventually feed us.  Kinshuk and Tania from the Sustainably Yours team meet Ankit Alok Bagaria, who is addressing this growing need for animal food with his start up Loopworm.   Loopworm is an agri-biotechnology company that takes inspiration from nature to convert organic wastes into valuable prod ..read more

Today the Green Shoots team dives into the management of wet waste. The fruit peels and the food leftovers that we throw away are potentially massive sources of energy and can enrich our soil too! Learn how Rahul Khera, through his brainchild Balancing Bits is solving the large problem of wet waste recycling. This episode is the second in a  two part series and focuses solely on the challenges, opportunities, and the surprisingly positive by-products of wet waste. What will you learn in this episode? - Chemistry of wet waste - How should aspiring entrepreneurs look at the sustainability s ..read more

Today the Green Shoots team dives into the management of wet waste. The fruit peels and the food leftovers that we throw away are potentially massive sources of energy and can enrich our soil too! Learn how Rahul Khera, through his brainchild Balancing Bits is solving the large problem of wet waste recycling. This episode is the first in a  2 part series and focuses solely on the challenges, opportunities, and the surprisingly positive by-products of wet waste. What will you learn in this episode? - How is waste from an Indian household different from any other waste in the world? - How d ..read more

Today the Green Shoots team meets Srini and Shubhashree, the authors of (Im)perfectly Zero Waste. They have also co-authored the book - The Everyday Eco-Warrior. Learn all about #zerowaste #zerowasteliving #sustainableliving in this episode. Specifically, learn about the following:  The sustainability triggers of the authors  How to start living a sustainable life  The concept of zero-waste and its societal importance  How individual action can lead to a circular economy and large-scale impact.     Shubhashree is also the illustrator behind The Hungry Palette a ..read more

Each one of us is a consumer – and what we consume defines us. Our choices as consumers decide the fate of this planet and its inhabitants. It also impacts our health and the kind of values we will embed in our children. We must choose wisely. A brand of cookies that we discovered is trying to be sustainable at various levels. Vaibhav Dugar, linkedin.com/in/vaibhavdugar co-creator of Kivu kivu.in, explains to us why he started a brand of vegan cookies that is solar-baked, made in drought-hit areas of Maharashtra, using Indian ingredients.  In this episode, you can learn about the follow ..read more

India has started its journey of waste management - however, we have a long way to go. Availability of data, encouraging the informal sector to adopt technology, generating high-quality recycled material, encouraging people like you and me to segregate our waste - these are just some of the issues the sector deals with on a daily basis.  We are back with another informative session with India-centric knowledge and data addressing these issues. We meet Ritvik Rao http://linkedin.com/in/ritvik-rao-87a9a5118, co-founder of Sampurn(e)arth http://www.sampurnearth.com/, a solid waste manageme ..read more

Today, the Green Shoots team continues its conversation on the Indian plastic story. With our guest Richa Malik, the founder of TheHappyTurtle.in  https://www.thehappyturtle.in/, we learn about a new festival - Plastic Free July. We follow it up with the business models in the space, the meaning of sustainable growth, and know a little about the teams and organizations that are doing meaningful work in the sector. We close this episode with what role participants can play in the value chain (including you and me) to reduce the environmental impact of consumption. Richa has made it her ..read more