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Sustainable Choices,
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Sand mafia in India

Sands Out of Time: How Long Will Our Rivers Suffer from Illegal Sand Mining?

India’s construction boom in the last decade has completely changed the way our cities look. Enthusiastic social media often film our cities and compare our ...
Chromium in leather industry

Can India’s Leather Industry Escape from Chromium?

India’s leather industry is under growing pressure to reduce its dependence on chromium tanning. India is not alone. A 2021 study showed that nearly 85–90 ...
India's fertiliser dependence

Why India’s food security is vulnerable to shocks beyond its borders

If there is one clear lesson for India from the latest crisis around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, it is this: a country cannot ...
Why do India's landfills keep growing?

Recycling Plastic or Recycling Promises: Why India’s Landfills Keep Growing

The Ghazipur landfill in Delhi now rises nearly as high as a seventeen-storey building. Trucks continue to unload waste at its base every day, even ...
Cold storage solutions for India

India Beats Climate Change At Wasting Food: The Cold Storage Conundrum

Indian news outlets often show our farmers throwing food on the highway or selling their produce in a distress sale. Truckloads of onions or tomatoes ...
Who will be cleaning the Ganga river?

Banking on the banks of River Ganga

For forty years, India has tried to clean the Ganga the way it builds highways, by funding big projects, awarding contracts, and measuring progress in ...
Sustainable Lotus Silk for India

The Sacred Filament: Can Lotus Silk Redefine Sustainable Luxury?

It is the early 1900s in Kyaing Khan village in Myanmar’s Shan region. A 50-year-old weaver, Daw Sa Oo, is said to have noticed the ...
India's new seed bill might ruin your food

Seeds of Power (Part 2): Centralisation, Corporations, and the Future of India’s Food

While Part 1 of our series on the Seed Management Bill examined what it means for farmers on the ground, the Bill’s other far-reaching consequences ...