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Bengaluru
What Is The Sustainability Mafia? Inside India’s Founder-Led Climate Startup Network
India’s climate startup ecosystem has no shortage of incubators, investors and accelerators. So why did a group of founders decide to create yet another network? The answer, says The Sustainability Mafia co-founder Ganesh Shankar, was that founders were still building largely in isolation. Today, the Bengaluru-based network brings together founders working across sectors including clean […]
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Bengaluru
How I Transitioned Into Climate Work Without a Traditional Sustainability Background
Looking back, I do not think my journey into climate work began with one defining moment. Instead, it was shaped by a series of experiences that stayed with me over the years, long before I understood what a “climate career” even meant. Some of my earliest memories of engaging with environmental themes come from school. […]
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Bengaluru
How I Built ReRooted.Films: Creating a Sustainable Production Studio in India
When was the last time you felt rooted? Really rooted. With a sense of belonging to something larger than yourself. A place, a person, a community, maybe even a kind of food. Our roots may begin in one place, but we spend our lives finding ways to grow them elsewhere. We keep searching for ways […]
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In-depth explorations of climate solutions
Bengaluru
Off the Charts: What Climate Communicators Can Learn from Data Visualisers
The climate movement has never had more data. Satellites map shrinking glaciers in real time. Sensors record rising temperatures by the hour. Researchers can estimate everything from groundwater depletion to carbon emissions with remarkable precision. Yet much of climate communication still struggles with a fundamental problem: people don’t experience gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. They experience […]
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Hyderabad
The Rs 1.75 Lakh Crore Question: Can Andhra Pradesh’s Natural Farming Model Transform Indian Agriculture?
The Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme, which involves over a million farmers practising forms of natural farming, recently won the 2026 Food Planet Prize. Awarded by the Curt Bergfors Foundation, this is the world’s largest environmental award for changing global food systems. As governments across India invest in programmes to reduce farmers’ […]
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Dehradun
CCUS in India: Essential Climate Solution or a Lifeline for Coal?
India’s ₹20,000 crore budget allocation to Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) announced earlier this year positions CCUS as both a climate solution and a lifeline for India’s coal-dependent economy. This raises a critical question: is this pragmatic decarbonisation, or an expensive way to prolong the fossil fuel era? While allocations for renewable energy in […]
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Scientists Test Turning Aquatic Weeds into Liquid Fertilisers
The uncontrolled growth of aquatic plants has become a major environmental challenge in Dal lake, an important freshwater lake in the Kashmir Himalaya. A new study has tested a way to convert these excess plants into fermented liquid fertilisers, offering a potential solution to manage weed overgrowth while producing a useful agricultural input. Dal, a culturally and […]
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Dholavira’s Water Wisdom: What a 4,500-Year-Old City Teaches Modern India about Managing Scarcity
Standing atop the massive citadel of Dholavira, a 4500-year-old city, in the arid expanse of Gujarat’s Rann of Kachchh, it is difficult not to be struck by a paradox. This was a city built in one of the most water-scarce landscapes of the Indian subcontinent, yet it flourished for nearly a millennium. Looking down from […]
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India Needs More Scrap to Boost Green Steelmaking. But Where Is the Scrap?
Steel scrap has become an increasingly strategic resource for countries and their steelmakers as a key input for emissions reductions. India, the world’s second largest steel producer, has set ambitious targets to double the share of scrap use in its total steel output in the coming decades. The question is: where is the scrap? Scrap […]
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Dehradun
Meet the Chandrayaan-2 Scientist Solving the Water Crisis on Earth
In India’s vast but fragmented agricultural landscape, where livelihoods tilt with the monsoon winds, water is both lifeline and gamble. Riddhish Soni set out to change this through Aumsat Technologies, with tools forged for space exploration turned towards the Earth. Using radar, remote sensing and technologies that can detect resources under the surface of heavenly […]
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The Floating Answer to the Green Steel Challenge
Rushi Kanakiya recycles ships from a 50-metre beachside plot overlooking the sea in Alang, India. Since 1985 his family enterprise, Triveni Shipbreakers, has been receiving and dismantling old vessels here, in the world’s largest ship-breaking yard. Triveni is capable of processing some 2,000 metric tonnes of steel every month. There is a mind-boggling amount of […]
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Hyderabad
The Rs 1.75 Lakh Crore Question: Can Andhra Pradesh’s Natural Farming Model Transform Indian Agriculture?
The Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme, which involves over a million farmers practising forms of natural farming, recently won the 2026 Food Planet Prize. Awarded by the Curt Bergfors Foundation, this is the world’s largest environmental award for changing global food systems. As governments across India invest in programmes to reduce farmers’ […]
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Mumbai
How’s the Green Energy Corridor Coming Along, and Is It Time for Battery Subsidies?
India’s continuing renewables growth curve will not be determined only by how many panels get installed, but on how intelligently demand, storage, pricing, transmission and dispatch are managed. The country can generate more clean power during sunny hours, but the grid must still serve homes, industries and cities when demand rises later in the day. […]
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