Weclome aboard, Kapil. We’re delighted to be partners in your amazing journey of change.
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Hello! I am Durgesh. I work at SayTrees, leading the team in India. I am fascinated by nature based solutions to climate change and ‘climate and social justice’. Excited to learn and contribute through The Grove.
Cheers!
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Hi all, it’s a pleasure to join this community of people who are passionate about making a positive change in the world.
My name is Suhel Quader, and I work with the Nature Conservation Foundation (https://ncf-india.org/), which does research and conservation in diverse landscapes across India.
I head the Education and Public Engagement programme at NCF. My colleagues and I try and (a) bring children and adults closer to nature and (b) use a citizen science approach to work with enthusiasts across the country to help document changes to the natural world.
Very glad to join this diverse and enthusiastic group!
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Dear all,
Sandhya here and I am the programme lead at Mongabay-India (https://india.mongabay.com/) – an environment and conservation news website that brings to you journalistic content from across the country. We also publish in Hindi.
Very glad to be part of this diverse group, who are united by common interests. I hope all of you find Mongabay illuminating and we are always open to feedback – and story leads too!
You can signup for our weekly newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/gd9NJj
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Hi everyone, so glad to have found this great community!
I am a Delhi based climate journalist, I run the newsletter Lights On which covers climate and the energy transition in India and South Asia at large, with a science and business angle. I publish three times a week with a mix of news bulletins, feature stories and interviews.
If you want to know more, you can take a look here:
https://letterdrop.com/@lights-on/about
And if you’d like to subscribe, you can click the button on the homepage 
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Hi Praveen great to hear that, how can I reach out to you.
Hello Everyone!
My name is Akshay and I am excited to join Rainmatter starting today as a ‘Tech Fellow’. My role is to assist organisations and individuals to implement various software systems and practices. In other words I want to get computers out of the way to let people do what they do best, ecological restoration.
Please reach out to me if you need suggestions on how to go about building your website / blog / app or just about anything!
About me:
I took up Chemical Engineering wanting to learn more about resource consumption on a finite planet. Learnt more about it during summers I spent with Prof. Shreekumar at his Organic Farm (Sangatya Commune near Karkala). I’m passionate about alternative education, data-ownership and open-source software.
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Hello Everyone,
I feel humbled to read about so many of you here creating real, positive impact to the world we live in.
I am Nithish and I am a Civil Engineer by graduation working for a design based housing firm called Total Environment. I am at a crossroads in my career where I am clear about working in roles that will help bring sustainable living to the fore and impact the society we all live in. I have started to volunteer with Consult for Humanity (consultforhumanity.com), a pro-bono, impact consulting initiative aimed at helping out NGOs, foundations and social organisations solve their problems and scale. Excited to interact with you all and see if I can be of any assistance to any of you here.
I am personally passionate about afforestation and I am seeking opportunities to work with initiatives focused on the same.
I feel fortunate to have stumbled across the Grove. This is an amazing platform.
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Professor Shreekumar!! He is such an inspiration.
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Hello everyone, i am Rathan, associated with TVS CSR Dept., happy to be part of this forum to learn and contribute. As part of our rural livelihood initiative, we have trained rural women in eco-friendly handicrafts (Banana fibre, palm leaf, jute, etc.), food (wild honey, pickles, millets) and textiles (handloom sarees), etc. and forming micro enterprises to connect with markets. With respect to environment, we do lot of plantation drives in the forest areas, villages, hillocks to increase green cover every year. I am currently working on a new project - plantation drive of 1 million.
I could be reached on 9986082481 (whatsapp) and [email protected]
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Hello Sameer,
My name is Ashish and I run a young startup “SAJHI MITTI” focussed on Climate Change, Agriculture and Healthcare. I was with pharmaceutical industry for 25 years and learnt a lot across extraordinary companies and countries and now I am a full time farmer and entrepreneur.
It is gratifying to see a successful organisation like ZERODHA focusing on existential issues like climate change and remediation strategies like afforestation, ecological regeneration and livelihood and how it intersects completely with our purpose.
We work with about 30 thousand farmers (most of them women and tribals) and help them adopt sustainable and ecologically regenerative agriculture. It has been a deeply satisfying and enriching journey and I will be happy to explore what we could do together with ZERODHA and other wonderful people in this forum.
Please feel free to connect with me at 9930143837.
Warmly
Ashish
Hello All,
I’m Sarika and I work with Mrida Education and Welfare Society, a small nonprofit focused on Education, Sports Excellence, Technology (for local entrepreneurship) and Livelihood (Agroforestry). We serve the needs of children, youth, and families from tribal communities in the Mahakaushal region in Madhya Pradesh.
I stumbled upon this space during my visit to rainmatters foundation website. It is so amazing to see a big company like Zerodha creating a forum to discuss and connect on issues that directly impact our environment and its existence. I look forward to contributing in any meaningful way I can via this forum.
Although my direct involvement in the nonprofit sector is quite recent, I have always had a deep interest and stayed involved with grassroots nonprofits by way of volunteering.
On the sustainable livelihood efforts, Mrida had introduced Kheti Shiksha Ke Liye (KSKL) project just before the first COVID-19 lockdown. The project has the potential to impact the rejuvenation of the great Narmada River which is in a very bad state due to the ill effects of sand mining and silting. We helped 45 farmer parents of Mrida’s school children in the first phase of the KSKL project to generate livelihood and earnings through their otherwise unused barren land. Please visit https://mrida.org to know more on our work and if you think we can work together to make our rural communities self-sustainable, please feel free to email me at [email protected]
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Hello all,
Glad to enter the Grove! Still getting the hang of this forum, but thought I would briefly introduce myself. I am a writer and wildlife scientist living in the Anamalai hills of southern India, working as a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation. We work in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, on rainforest restoration, wildlife research, and long-term monitoring. I have added a bit more about myself in my profile. Looking forward to interactions here.
Cheers,
Shankar
Introducing “Biomimicry India” : Shifting mindsets is as important as shifting to sustainable Products & Processes.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
Dear All,
Its wonderful to be part of this forum. So many sustainability initiatives in various fields surely bodes well for our collective and sustainable future!
Here’s our introduction : We are Educators and we specialize in designing and delivering engaging/entertaining learning experiences in Nature integrated Design Thinking (with a focus on Biomimicry).
Having started in 2012 ,its been a long journey from doing free talks and events to spread awareness (often offering coffee and snacks free just to get people to attend!) to today when Biomimicry is now being taught as an open elective in many leading institutes including NID.
(attaching a brief profile :
( A breif note on Biomimicry India_V1.pdf - Google Drive ) and a few customer testimonials : (https://youtu.be/5Hal3OeoHbo) )
We are now working on developing bio-region specific and scalable learning modules for K12 and industry specific areas. Looking forward to all possibilities of grants/funding/projects and collaboration.
warm regards,
Prashant
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Hello,
Happy to see this initiative by Zerodha, recognizing the need to fight climate change.
In the past several years I got to see and volunteer for different reforestation and plantation projects and hoping to be more involved in the future.
Originally from the central part of India, I am trying to live sustainably in a village outside Dharamshala, HP while I continue to work in Tech.
Thanks
Saurabh
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Hi,
Interesting and good to know. A friend of mine Margo Farnsworth has a book on Biomimicry and Business–perhaps you are already aware of it.
https://biomimicry.org/biomimicry-and-business-by-margo-farnsworth/
Cheers,
Shankar
I am Chandrasekaran, founder of the world’s first region-specific, tailormade, natural water purifier. Dear Sir,
Happy to see your founder as the Asoka Fellow this year.
Greetings.
I thought I would introduce to you my product and see if it suits your state and your people, your people and you think, yes this product can save
Millions of gallons of water not going out as a waste, as it does in an R.O Plant
or
Saves tonnes of carbon by not running using electricity
or
Reducing the landfill thrown my innumerable polymer membranes, press pads, mechanized parts coming our once in three months from the nearest Water Plants or R.O (Reverse Osmosis) Plants
or
Not dump in the name of backwash water or brackish water or Saline water more and more of such kind back into the earth, thereby increasing the salinity of the groundwater and in future making all water bodies like the dead sea, due to dumping of the reject saline water into the soil?
you are my connection, to take it to the last woman and child in the last mile of your country and geography!
Yes, Watsan Envirotech is a Social Enterprise focussing on reaching out to the last woman in the last mile with safe potable water.
A) WATER
- We are the ONLY company in the world to have tailor-made Water Purifiers without membranes or electricity using cleantech nono-tech solutions to remove any anomaly in water, especially the first to make and scale add-ons to remove the excess levels of FLUORIDE and ARSENIC from water.
- We are the only water purifier company accredited by Premier Governmental organizations like the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-IMMT), Department of Science & Technology (DST), IIT Jodhpur, IIT Madras & Central Institute of Plastics and Engineering Technology (CIPET) from India.
- We are being mentioned under proven technologies by Jal Shakti Ministry (GOI).
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), London
The salient features of our purifier are that it
- Does not need electricity
- Does not waste a single drop of water
- Has minimal maintenance
- No replacement of cartridges even for 10 years
- DIY model of design and simpler to use even in rural space
- Has instructions in all local vernacular languages, making it easy to use
- We have wide variants like 15 liters standalone, 200 LPH, 2500 LPH both gravity filter and also completely automated version as Water Dispensing Machine with AI.
B) TOILETS
“Don’t construct toilets, but manufacture toilets” – We recently received the National Award from the Minister of Petrochemicals and Fertilizers, for innovating and piloting the manufacturing of ready-to-fit toilets using discarded landfills from the Fiber Glass Industry.
Our Expectations: We appreciate it if your esteemed organization can Collaborate and connect to
- Capacity Building of SHGs and Federation of Self Help Groups in distributing 15 Litres capacity Water Purifiers as a sustainable income generation activity, or* Construct Modular Toilets which do not use natural resources like sand, water and carbon-emitting cement, but uses the waste Glass Fibre Landfill dumped by Windmill Companies, to remold them into toilets.
So that people living in such areas have access to clean drinking water and sanitation facilities.
We are the recipients of various awards including the CII Best Startup Award (2017), FICCI Waterpreneur Award (2018), Millennium Alliance Grant (2016), Jury Special Award for Innovative SME from the MSME Ministry, CSIR Rural Innovation Award (2018), and Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, London (2017).
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My name is Meher Smaran and I’m willing to volunteer at the Rainmatter foundation. I currently work in the support specialist team of Zerodha.
I come from a culture which firmly believes that all life is one. As the basis of our life is Nature itself (Pancha Bhutas) - Any effort to enhance Nature is an act of rejuvenation of our own life.
From many years, All I had was passion to do something of value on this front, but due to lack of proper ecosystem, passion remained just passion. (which I’m sure is the case for most of the people)
I firmly believe that with a team and a platform like rainmatter, its time to upgrade this passion into a concrete action backed by extraordinary efforts.
I will be dedicating myself on providing solutions in :
- Sports.
- Waste Management.
- Maintaining Plants and Trees.
- Horticulture.
Looking forward to learning from all here and hopefully get a chance to contribute in any possible manner in all your efforts.
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