By treating trees as green family members, Shyam Sunder Jyani has turned conservation into a community-led movement across Rajasthan.
Nashik entrepreneur Sony Adhav’s Edh Farms converts agricultural residue into biomass fuel while creating value for farmers and supporting cleaner industrial energy.
Retired professor Dr. Shankar Lal Garg transformed a 22-acre barren, rocky hillock in Madhya Pradesh into Keshar Parvat, a flourishing sanctuary home to over 40,000 trees and thriving wildlife.
Bengaluru-based startup Bambrew, founded by Vaibhav Anant, demonstrates that environmental solutions can be commercially viable, building a ₹50 crore business by engineering bamboo and natural fiber packaging to replace single-use plastic.
A childhood experiment inspired by chewing gum, paper and cartoons like Dexter’s Laboratory eventually grew into a career in waste innovation.
A dentist’s response to plastic waste at Kanpur’s Ganga ghats grew into a community movement focused on cleaning, recycling and civic responsibility.
Vaishali Biyani’s De’Dzines explores how discarded tyres can be upcycled into furniture, planters, sculptures and public installations.
Anand Malligavad, known as the “Lake Man of India,” left his corporate career to restore dry, polluted waterbodies across India using ancient, low-cost eco-engineering without concrete.
Delhi-based sustainability creator Vidhi Adhikari shows how everyday choices around consumption, reuse and waste can make low-waste living more accessible.
At 22, Adesh Soni is building a nationwide tree-planting effort through Touchforearth, working towards his goal of 10 million trees.
