Category Resources-and-Materials

All Roads Lead to Materials: From Uranium to Nanocellulose

What do uranium stockpiles, critical minerals, battery recycling, low-carbon cement, algae-based materials, data centres, and geopolitical tensions have in common?
More than most people realise.
This article explores why advanced materials may be one of the most overlooked lenses through which to understand climate action, industrial transformation, energy security, circularity, and the industries shaping the next few decades. Through personal observations from eight years in climate and sustainability ecosystems, I unpack how materials sit quietly beneath many of the conversations we treat as separate—and why the future may emerge at the intersections.

Reclaiming Water — Why Chennai’s Climate Party Got Serious 

A climate party that flowed from panels to play — how a night of policy, and raw conversations mapped our city’s climate fault lines. The second edition of Climate Party zoomed into Chennai’s most painful, persistent wound: Water.

The event themed “Reclaiming Water: Chennai’s Woes & Solutions” was a grounded, needed conversation about the city’s city’s sanitation systems, water insecurity, and the need for decentralised, circular approaches.

The Billionaires’ Rage for Blue Gold: A Future Dictated by Bottled Water

The growing trend of influential entities, like billionaires and corporations, investing in water rights and markets poses a troubling threat to water equity and access. As the debate between treating water as a commodity or a basic human right intensifies, we need to address governance issues and work towards sustainable and equitable solutions and firstly be vigil and learn to future-proof ourselves.