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Rooted in Purpose: How IT Professionals Ankur and Rashmi Built Tuhi Farms in Kanpur
Leaving corporate careers at Flipkart, SAP, and IBM in Bengaluru, Ankur and Rashmi Sachan returned to Kanpur during the pandemic to establish Tuhi Farms, a 5.5-acre chemical-free agroforestry model growing over 30 crop varieties.
How Akriti Verma and Bhavya Jhunjhunwala Started a Zero-Waste Fashion Brand with Just ₹30,000
College friends Akriti Verma and Bhavya Jhunjhunwala launched SewMuchBetter in Kanpur with just ₹30,000–₹40,000 to combat fast-fashion waste, creating zero-waste handcrafted apparel worn by Madhuri Dixit.
How Radhika Anand Partnered with the Indian Army to Plant Over 10 Lakh 10 Thousand Trees
Delhi-based environmentalist Radhika Anand joined hands with the Indian Army under “Mission Fruit Forest” to plant over 1.1 lakh fruit-bearing trees across barren military lands, transforming dry terrain into self-sustaining green corridors.
How Bengaluru’s Nayana Premnath Turned Zero-Waste Living Into A Way Of Life
Nayana Premnath’s journey from beauty and lifestyle content to low-waste living eventually led her to build The Green Circle, an initiative focused on upcycling discarded textiles.
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.
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