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How ‘Vriksha Manav’ Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani Planted 5 Million Trees in Uttarakhand
Freedom fighter Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani, known as the ‘Tree Man of India’, transformed personal grief into ecological restoration by single-handedly planting over 50 lakh trees across Uttarakhand’s degraded hills.
How Tsering Abraham Is Rethinking Baby Care in Nepal With Doodles Baby
After returning to Nepal, Tsering Abraham turned her search for better baby products into Doodles Baby, a bamboo-based brand for conscious baby care.
How Shyam Sunder Jyani Turned Familial Forestry Into a Community-Led Restoration Movement
By treating trees as green family members, Shyam Sunder Jyani has turned conservation into a community-led movement across Rajasthan.
From Nashik Farms to Clean Fuel: How Edh Farms Is Turning Crop Waste into Energy
Nashik entrepreneur Sony Adhav’s Edh Farms converts agricultural residue into biomass fuel while creating value for farmers and supporting cleaner industrial energy.
How Dr. Shankar Lal Garg Built a Keshar Parvat with 40,000 Trees in Madhya Pradesh
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.
How Vaibhav Anant’s Bambrew Built a ₹50 Crore Business Replacing Single-Use Plastic
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.
From Chewing Gum To Bricks: How Dr. Binish Desai Turned Waste Into Innovation
A childhood experiment inspired by chewing gum, paper and cartoons like Dexter’s Laboratory eventually grew into a career in waste innovation.
How Kanpur’s ‘Kachra Queen’ Dr. Sanjivini Sharma Turned Waste Into Community Action
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: How De’Dzines Is Giving Discarded Tyres a Second Life in Kanpur
Vaishali Biyani’s De’Dzines explores how discarded tyres can be upcycled into furniture, planters, sculptures and public installations.
The Lake Man of India – Anand Malligavad Is Reviving Bengaluru’s Dying Lakes
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.
Meet Vidhi Adhikari, The ‘Trashy Sister’ Making Sustainable Living Simple And Accessible
Delhi-based sustainability creator Vidhi Adhikari shows how everyday choices around consumption, reuse and waste can make low-waste living more accessible.
How 22-Year-Old Adesh Soni Is Turning His 10-Million-Tree Planting Mission Into Reality Across India
At 22, Adesh Soni is building a nationwide tree-planting effort through Touchforearth, working towards his goal of 10 million trees.
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