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India Wants to Replace Aluminium Packaging With Something Grown, Not Mined
Most conversations about sustainable packaging in India centre on plastic — bans, alternatives, extended producer responsibility. A new partnership signed this week points to a less obvious material source: the country’s medicinal plants. The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), under the Ministry of Ayush, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Delhi,…
Delhi’s New Plan to Clean the Yamuna Starts With an Unlikely Culprit: Cow Dung
For years, one of the quieter contributors to the Yamuna’s pollution problem has had nothing to do with factories or sewage pipes — it’s come from the roughly 1.25 lakh cattle housed in dairies and gaushalas along the river’s banks in Delhi. Untreated dung and dairy wash-water routinely find their way into stormwater drains that…
A Beginner’s Guide to Carbon Reporting Terms
Carbon accounting comes with its own vocabulary, and it can be genuinely confusing when a business is just getting started. Terms like Scope 3, emissions factor, and carbon offset get used interchangeably by people who mean slightly different things by them — which makes it easy to misreport, misunderstand a vendor’s claims, or misread a…
What Is a Carbon Baseline and Why Does It Matter?
Before a business can set a credible carbon reduction target, it needs to answer a more basic question: reduced from what? That reference point is the carbon baseline — the starting measurement every future comparison, target, and progress report is judged against. Get the baseline wrong, and every number that follows it is wrong too.…
Changemaker Spotlight
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Guides & Comparisons
Best Khus Curtains for Natural Cooling: Eco-Friendly Summer Alternatives
Discover the best khus (vetiver) curtains for natural cooling this summer. These eco-friendly, zero-electricity cooling curtains are biodegradable, sustainable, and perfect for Indian homes.
11 Terrace Gardening Essentials
Terrace Gardening Essentials Planters, potting media, Organic fertilisers, Organic seeds, Drip irrigation, Organic Pesticide Neem oil
5 Eco-friendly Ganesha Idols We Can Buy Online for Ganesh Chaturthi 2024
Ganesh Chaturthi or “Vinayak Chaturthi” is one of the most sacred Hindu festivals. The festival celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha – the supreme God of wisdom and prosperity. The festival is marked with the installation of Ganesha clay idols privately in homes, or publicly on elaborate pandals (temporary stages) across the country. In this post,…
