Abhilash Tomy: The mariner who sailed five oceans
Without an iota of doubt, every child on this planet at some point in time in his life must have surely fantasised about being a sailor. Reading up on the…
Is Japan’s age problem really all wrinkled?
GET the kids and you have got the whole family and a future market. Naomi Klein twists the dagger further in her anti-consumerism best seller ‘No Logo’ when she enlightens…
A new spot in Marine Trash
WITH efforts swinging between helplessness and hope, the search for the missing plane incidentally makes us spot a not-so-elusive sight in case we paid notice. The director of marine debris…
Will the Rhino lose its horn or its life?
Shashwat DC It was a news item hidden under the very many pages of politics in India. In all the excitement of who will become the PM and who might…
Are Shoes and Pedals really replacing Tyres?
CATALYSTS of all ages and from many geographies as well as environmental enthusiasts with an active agenda have been screaming this for years – shut that car away in a…
Time to De-COALinise India, and FAST!
— Shashwat DC Imagine, you are working on a laptop, working on something very critical, like say a business plan for the coming quarter or like, filing your tax returns…
CSO isn’t a Designation, but a Privilege
Sometime back, I was having a nice little chai-biscuit-chat with a CIO friend. We both were enjoying our ‘Good-days’ and some real nice masala tea. Generally, when you are having…
The Importance of Going Green
Understanding the basics of sustainability is the first step towards making direct bottom line benefits. Someone rightly remarked that we haven’t received this world as an inheritance from our forefathers….
Maruti Suzuki Steps up the Pace on Reporting
Maruti Suzuki has of late gained a very common (man) halo thanks to CM Arvind Kejriwal’s fascination for a blue Wagon R. Yet, chancing upon the latest sustainability report from…
Vodafone India’s G4 Report Fails to Impress
The latest Vodafone India’s sustainability report was launched with much pomp and fanfare. The news about the launch done by Dr. RK Pachauri, DG, TERI, spread far and wide. The…
Acknowledge creativity and participation
Spot the talent and ideas for sustainability among your staff and reward them suitably Twitching the famous saying a little, we can say that ‘everyone loves a good reward’, especially…
Tata Power Sustainability Report could be more Powerful
The first thing that one realizes on holding the Tata Power Sustainability Report for 2012-13 is that it is rather bulky. Pushing at over 200 pages, it is a rather…
Can you handle the green tag?
Sustainability should be handled just as you handle other operations of your business They say to maintain something is more difficult than starting up, be it business, an image, a…
Khadi: From Sovereignty to Sustainability
For more than sixty years, khadi has been linked with India’s fight for freedom, but today it is perceived as one of the major agents in our fight against global warming and climate change. However, designers do not just see the garment as being merely eco-friendly but luxurious—defining it as “haute couture”.