Sustainability Archives

Petal talk on sustainability: How Diana Awardee Sriya Donepudi’s Ankh recycled flowers

by sanjana | Feb 10, 2022

(February 10, 2022) Flower recycling is fuelling innovation and creativity – Incense sticks, herbs and flower-infused teas, potpourri, and much more. For the sprightly UNICEF ambassador Sriya Donepudi, these ideas struck a chord when she set out to finish her...

Footprints in the sand: UN Young Leader Udit Singhal breaks the ‘glass’ ceiling

by suruchi | Feb 3, 2022

(February 3, 2022) “Be mindful,” Udit Singhal implores in a TedX Talk. It is that same mindfulness that saw him solve the glass menace in Delhi. The UN Young Leader for sustainable development goals is a sum of many parts – social entrepreneur, youth leader,...

Planting forests, creating shoes from plastic, making glass into sand – these young Indian activists are conservationists with a plan

by Global Indian | Dec 28, 2021

(December 28, 2021) Three years ago, a young Swedish girl made the world stop in its tracks by emphasising the extent of environmental damage in the world. Her fervent plea was to ask if this is the world we were leaving behind for our children. At a UN climate...