Data Centres: The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Temperatures, heavy workloads, and pressure for business uptime on one hand- while dealing with underutilisation and capacity issues on the..
Smart cities. Sustainable cities. Driving in the same lane.
Here's why sustainability is a core part of any smart city- and vice versa.
The imperfect environmentalist mind-set
"Infrastructure is responsible for 79% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, consumes 60% of the world’s materials, and represents 88% of all adaptation costs. Therefore, the sector is essential to achieving the Paris Agreement and the SDGs," states Rodrigo Fernandes, Bentley Systems
India’s Baby Shark Tank: No Blues Here
Undisturbed, unperturbed and unstoppable – there are many young entrepreneurs who are choosing the boring side of the start-up Disneyland...
Metaverse- How worse for the Environment?
The tunnel gets immersive and surreal – but will it open in a different Narnia land? It’s a simple question...
FCA Amendments: Missing the wood for the trees
The current amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act 2006 can be quite counter productive to the conservation of natural spaces in India
World Water Day: Inspiration for a Better Future
According to the UN, one in four people lack safe drinking water. To know more about world water day, read more:
Net Positive – It does net a positive frame of mind
Net Positive, the book authored by Paul Polman and Andrew Winston has been touted as A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year. Santhosh Jayaram reviews the book to see if it stands up to its billing and is there a net-positive gain from reading it?
Fast Fashion- Slow Torture?
Is the youth really reckless when it comes to how fashion affects the world beyond them? Do they run after..
Hi Big Ears! Hello Elephants!
Sounds can be clever breadcrumbs to follow when the Hansel and Gretel here are elephants in a thick forest somewhere..
The EIB Huddle on Green Finance: From Red Swan to Green Swan
A lot of new colours are emerging in the realm of Climate Change – as we understand with EIB experts..
We want to bring Bharat to the world- with Handlooms
Sweta Patra, Founder, Ethnics Land shares how her venture is weaving in scalability and growth with authenticity and artisan-rights in..
The Great Barrier Reef – Now easily visible to Citizen Scientists
Thanks to a new deep learning model, volunteers can review 13,000 images in just over a week Consider what happens..
Building Passports- The door to a greener world?
Decarbonising older buildings, local housing materials, modular buildings, SMETs 1 metering, and incidents like Grenfell – while we are moving..
OUTLAST: A must-read for ESG in India
Outlast, the book authored by Mukund Rajan & Col. Rajeev Kumar is touted as the first Indian book written on the topic of ESG. Santhosh Jayaram reviews the book to see if it can really aid businesses to build resilience and outlast the competition.
‘The role of art is to show the world that things can be different than how it is currently’
Graphic artist Matthew Frame shares his views on how art can play an important role in spreading the message of awareness on topics like Climate Change
Let’s Read These Tea Leaves
The future of health lies in what we do today – with our lifestyle and habits, starting from the very..
Thinking about the Urban Macaques of India
The macaques, a large group of Old World monkeys, are represented by about 22 species distributed across Asia. Due to urbanization they are facing numerous challenges. Know more about them..
‘Universities must move to the forefront of society’s sustainability efforts’
Meghna Tare has been leading the sustainability function at the University of Texas Arlington for over a decade. She shares the high points of the journey as well as challenges faced inn a exclusive interaction.
Birds, Butterflies, Fungi and a rare Spider at Puttenhalli BioBlitz
BioBlitz is a short but intense session in which participants do a biological survey of a particular area and record all the living creatures in that space. Recently Puttenahalli Lake in Bangalore saw its first BioBlitz. Here's how it went..
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