Category: SDG 13 Climate Action
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The Positive Impact of Living in Sustainable Communities
According to a recent World Bank assessment, India will need to invest $840 billion, or $55 billion annually, in urban infrastructure over the next 15 years to satisfy its rapidly expanding urban population’s demands adequately. Now is an excellent time to rethink how we build our urban communities, keeping health and sustainability in mind.
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Is Cruelty-free Fashion Sustainable?
Does being ‘cruelty-free’ automatically guarantee a clothing brand is sustainable? And brands using animal products by default should be shelved in the ‘boycott’ category? Before we Mary Kondo our clothes and accessories, let’s pause to check out a narrative that may have more truth than the ‘organic granola bar’ on your hand. Check out Namrata’s take on the issue, the owner of the clothing brand Kaizen the label.
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Fiery Fields and the Smothering Smog: Are Farmers to Blame?
The classic air pollution case in north India (allegedly caused by farm fires/stubble burning) is signalling a dystopian future for us unless we stop playing the blame game every year and actively take part in climate action. Talk is cheap, and it is easy to point fingers at a group, especially a marginalised one shouldering intersectional burdens. So what can different stakeholders holding various forms of power/responsibility do to stop this crisis? In Marshall McLuhan’s words, one can find the answer to this: ‘There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew’.
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ecoHQ Articles, SDG 1 No Poverty, SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities & Communities, SDG 12 Responsible Consumption & Production, SDG 13 Climate Action, SDG 14 Life Below Water, SDG 15 Life on Land, SDG 2 Zero Hunger, SDG 3 Good Health & Well-being, SDG 6 Clean Water & Sanitation, SDG 7 Affordable & Clean Energy, SDG 8 Decent Work & Economic GrowthHow Sustainable is Ecotourism in the Indian Himalayas?
If you love mountains, then NOW is the time to take action and save them. The once pristine and delicately balanced – Himalayan Mountain regions face a disturbed ecosystem caused by human-caused hazards. Get to know how the Himalayan regions are being exploited and what we can do to address these emerging challenges and improve conditions for local communities.
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Understanding Nature-based & Low-cost Wastewater Treatment Technology
From times immemorial, we’ve used natural resources unfairly. Specifically Water, one of the key resources, is freely wasted. But nature-based, low-cost technologies do exist to solve this problem. They’re called Constructed Wetlands. Read more about them in the case study presented by Dr. Sudarsan J S
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Founder’s Experiences, SDG 1 No Poverty, SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities & Communities, SDG 12 Responsible Consumption & Production, SDG 13 Climate Action, SDG 2 Zero Hunger, SDG 3 Good Health & Well-being, SDG 4 Quality Education, SDG 5 Gender Equality, SDG 8 Decent Work & Economic GrowthLives in Flames
The case study discusses the prevailing issues of Sivakasi’s fireworks industry and the different stakeholders who are affected by it. Not much has changed over the decades with regard to the socioeconomic upliftment of those people but the narrative is the same ‘ban fireworks’. Let’s deep dive into the issue before we point our fingers and take a stand blindly without thinking about the consequences.