“Being sustainable is no longer enough. (We) need to create diverse regenerative cultures, ecosystems and facilitate design for humans with nature rather than against it. Whole systems thinking is the vehicle for regenerative design. The sooner we get there the sooner we will be able to heal the current human - nature communities.” - Himanshu Arteev, Co-founder, Ananas Design
“Mahatma Gandhi said the world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed. Keep your needs simple so we don’t burden the planet with our long lists of must haves.” - Ekta Jaju, Founder & CEO, ONganic
“Effective sustainability and climate action enable producers, consumers, and governments to make better choices, vastly reducing our ecological footprint without sacrifice.” - Varun Deshpande, Managing Director - Good Food Institute India
“Through our initiatives, we work towards a sustainable environment by reviving wildlife, reducing waste, generating employment opportunities for the locals, and adopting solar energy in the region.” - Bijit Sarma, Founder, Esah Tea
“As the world gets warmer and extreme weather events get more frequent, we need to get the 5Ps to work together - Planet, People, Policy, Purpose, and Profit to rapidly prioritize our attention and action” - Nidhi Pant, Founder & CEO, S4S Technologies
“For responsible sustainability and climateaction, we need to work towards restoring and protecting our forest lands, safeguarding ancient tribal cultures, protecting small scale farmers and climate-resilient agriculture, transitioning to cleanenergy and climate adaptation." - Ruchi Jain, Founder & CEO - Taru Naturals
“It’s a bitter truth that, to protect our financial system we are destroying our environment. We should think before its too late and to balance both we have an option that is - sustainable development.” - Javed Akhtar Barbhuiya, Owner - M/s Xiphias Industries
“Striking a balance to bring back sustainability practices in the entire millet value chain in todays context. This will automatically set the right course to the current climate change endeavour.” - Narayan Rangarajan, Founder - Millet Value Chain Social Enterprises (Earth 360, Kaulige Foods and Millet Machines and Tools)
“Change has to start from you. Be a minimalist. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.” - Phaneesh K, Convener - Ragi Kana
“I believe working with marginal farmers and women in the sector can help in true sustainable development. The need of the hour is to address climate change through designing alternative farming systems and protecting their livelihoods.” - Ahila, Joint Director - Pudukottai Organic Farmers Producer Company Limited
“Each individual is a small drop in the world’s need to Create, Recreate and Rejuvenate the Resources around us for a responsible and friendly environment.” - Ringbila Pungding, Co-Director - MOSONiE Socio-Economic Foundation
“Through an open-source approach, we inspire and facilitate a cadre of passionate change makers to approach critical environmental & social innovatively. And with grassroots efforts, evolve from collective to community.” - Anshul Ojha - Desert Resource Centre
“Climate change and invasive species are a case of double jeopardy and both crises complement each other. These species consume resources without being useful, thus impacting the livelihoods of millions of natural resource-dependent communities. Space for the communities needs to be created in forest and commons management practices.” - Ishan Agrawal, General Manager, Foundation for Ecological Security