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(1/12) Vasudha Madhavan, an investment banker based out of Bangalore, founded Ostara Advisors, India’s ‘first’ investment bank focused solely on the electric mobility and sustainability sector. 
(2/12) Both Vasudha and Ostara fly against stereotypes and ‘conventional wisdom’ – with her being in an otherwise male-dominated profession, and Ostara being focused on a specific niche. Otherwise, most investment banks specialise in offering services across multiple sectors.
(3/12) “In 2017-18, I was advising a company that was diversifying its mobility business. The company wanted to enter clean mobility, and this gave me a great opportunity to study electric two-wheelers.”
(1/10) An electric vehicle (EV) road trip can be an exciting and eco-friendly experience, but also requires proper planning and preparation. The first step is to determine the range of your EV and plan your route accordingly.
(2/10) The range of an EV is determined by the battery capacity and driving conditions, and it is important to check it regularly, especially before a road trip.
Another important aspect to consider is the charging infrastructure along your route.
Another important aspect to consider is the charging infrastructure along your route.
(3/10) There are several charging options, including fast charging stations, public charging stations, and home charging stations.
(1/6) BTM constituency in Bengaluru generates close to 120 tonnes of waste per day, of which 55 percent is organic. Often, most of the organic waste that ends up in landfills produces methane, which is a big contributor to greenhouse gases!
(2/6) The residents wanted to change that. The idea was to prevent organic waste from exhausting landfills and find the right solution that incorporated principles of the circular economy.
This is when Som Narayan’s Carbon Masters came into action.
This is when Som Narayan’s Carbon Masters came into action.
(3/6) Carbon Masters has been working in renewable energy space and reducing carbon emissions for nearly six years.
(1/7) As India’s temperatures exceed 40 degrees (March 2022 was the country’s hottest since 1901), more and more people will turn to cooling devices like ACs, which release more hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants (HFCs) — a major contributor to global heating — into the atmosphere.
(2/7) Therefore, it is the need of the hour to look at more energy-efficient alternatives besides tackling the global environmental crisis with mindful sustainable choices and lifestyle patterns.
(3/7) Agra-based Ashutosh Verma’s Exalta is one such company which provides a sustainable alternative through solar power ACs. He claims that his units can save up to 80% of electricity and have a shelf life of 25 years.
(1/5) In India, 88 million people are deprived of safe drinking water owing to various reasons such as dry climatic conditions and groundwater contamination or depletion.
(2/5) Madhu Vajrakarur, an electrical engineering student from Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh, along with his family were also without access to a continuous supply of electricity or clean drinking water.
But this young innovator wasn’t going to sit and watch!
But this young innovator wasn’t going to sit and watch!
(3/5) He came up with an unconventional solution. Madhu designed a wind turbine behind his house, which produces both electricity and drinking water.
Today, the wind turbine provides his family with 80 to 100 litres of water every day.
Today, the wind turbine provides his family with 80 to 100 litres of water every day.
(1/5) Access to uninterrupted electricity was wishful thinking for Kedar Prasad Mahto and other locals of Byang village in Jharkhand.
(2/5) The erratic power cuts made it difficult for farmers to use water pumps for irrigation, affected businesses and disturbed the students during their studies.
Kedar, a 33-year-old electrician with the state electricity board department was determined to build a solution.
Kedar, a 33-year-old electrician with the state electricity board department was determined to build a solution.
(3/5) He started procuring discarded materials from scrap vendors and collecting electrical equipment. Using this, he created a concrete column on the river and fitted a turbine with a magnet, coil, motor, armature and other parts.
(1/5) Hailing from a farming background in Hisar, Haryana, Pradeep Kumar wanted to innovate something that would benefit the farmers and improve their lives.
So he started a business providing solar panel installations to farmers.
So he started a business providing solar panel installations to farmers.
(2/5) Even though it was a success initially, frequent theft and breakage of panels caused worry. The farmers started demanding compensation for their loss.
(3/5) But, Pradeep was determined to find a solution to this problem, which finally came in the shape of a trolley. Using the trolley or even the farmer’s tractors, he made panels that could be transported anywhere to generate electricity.
(1/5) #Gurugram-based Abhilasha Purwar and her brother Kshitij are laying the foundation to build a Bloomberg-style data analytics firm for the #environment.
(2/5) Founded in 2018, their #startup Blue Sky Analytics created Zuri, an #AI platform to measure and monitor #farmfires and #stubbleburning in India.
Zuri can predict high-risk zones as well as expected volume and calorific value of crop waste.
Zuri can predict high-risk zones as well as expected volume and calorific value of crop waste.
(3/5) It also includes information on marketplaces to enable farmers to sell stubble rather than burn it.
(1/4) To encourage farmers to stop #stubbleburning, Udhami Kisan self-help group in Khosa Pando village of #Punjab's Moga district set a unique agro-machinery bank.
(2/4) This bank provides agro-machinery -- such as Mulcher, Happy Seeder, Bailer, Zero Drill and Roto Seeder -- at a nominal rent to manage crop residues, particularly #paddy #stubble.
(3/4) The impact has been amazing. Instead of burning stubble, 90% of the village's farmers have started ploughing the paddy residue back into the soil, improving soil fertility and increasing the next yield.
(1/5) A resident of #Punjab's Burj Deva Singh village, Gurbachan Singh, stopped burning the crop waste on his farm 20 years ago -- long before stubble burning was recognized as one of the primary causes of the smog that chokes #Delhi-NCR in winter.
(2/5) Making it his life’s mission, he even made the family of his sons' in-law take a pledge to shun stubble burning before marriage.
They endorse it too. I even gifted my daughters a machine known as Happy Seeder that cuts the old crop and sows the new seeds.
They endorse it too. I even gifted my daughters a machine known as Happy Seeder that cuts the old crop and sows the new seeds.
(3/5) The mulch it leaves enriches the soil, he says.
Gurbachan also has 40 farmers in and around his village to shun #stubbleburning and adopt his technique. His contribution has also been acknowledged by the Tarn Taran district office.
Gurbachan also has 40 farmers in and around his village to shun #stubbleburning and adopt his technique. His contribution has also been acknowledged by the Tarn Taran district office.
(1/5) Every year, millions of tons of farm #stubble and crop waste are burned in India — resulting in toxic, air-polluting #smog.
(2/5) Founded by #Pune-based siblings Shubham Singh and Himansha Singh, the #startup #Craste helps prevent this from happening by buying the stubble from farmers and creating products like tree-free #packaging and formaldehyde-free particle boards used to build #furniture.
(3/5) Craste does this through a patented proprietary process - Fumasolv - that separates three main components from crop waste, which are cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose.
(1/6) What if farm stubble could nourish the soil quickly instead of polluting the air for weeks?
(2/6) A recipient of Maharashtra's ‘Krishi Ratna’ and ‘Krishi Bhushan’ awards for excellence in agriculture Chandrashekhar Bhadsavale is the innovator of the Saguna Rice Technique (SRT) method of cultivation.
(3/6) The SRT method is eco-friendly and doesn’t require farmers to set fire to straw stubble, after harvest. Thereby, it does not contribute to air pollution while enhancing the organic carbon and microflora of the soil.
(1/7) Winters in the National Capital are synonymous with two things — temperatures that dip to single digits and air quality that worsens by the day.
(2/7) Every year during the harvest season in winter, the air quality in North India sees a significant decline as farmers begin to burn the excess paddy straw left behind.
(3/7) The infamous practice of stubble burning, though essential to clear the field and prepare it for the new season, is also detrimental to health.
(1/11) Sarika Panda Bhatt, a resident of Gurugram, is a cycling enthusiast leading the spokes for change with unique campaigns that promote safe walking and cycling in urban areas.
(2/11) Also the founder of Raagiri Day, India’s first car-free day campaign, Sarika launched an extraordinary movement to raise awareness about pollution, health, and cycling.
(3/11) While she first launched the campaign in Gurugram in November 2013, it has now grown to over 70 locations in India.
Sarika is an architect and urban planner by profession and also the ‘Bicycle Mayor’ of Gurgaon under the BYCS program.
Sarika is an architect and urban planner by profession and also the ‘Bicycle Mayor’ of Gurgaon under the BYCS program.
