“People realize the importance of self-sufficiency and are motivated to adopt and champion climate-resilient solutions, be it for livelihoods or health”- Swapnil Tembe, Deputy Commissioner - East Garo Hills, Government of Meghalaya
Every year more than half a billion people visit temples to pray, offering them in rivers, but ever wondered where do these flowers go afterward? Ankit Agarwal at Phool.co looks at flower waste management making charcoal-free incenses. His idea of sustainability and climate action, "Sustainability shifting the paradigm from unmindful consumption to conscious living to leave the planet better than we inherit it & Climate Change is a visible stressor for sustainability.”
Parmita Sarma & Mazin Mukhtar founded Akshar Foundation to teach underprivileged children how to save the world.Featuring for #OurClimateSolutions - an initiative by SELCO Foundation and India Climate Collaborative, they talk about how they've developed an education model that can transform schools into centers for #sustainabledevelopment.
Sustainability looks at long-term solutions. But textiles are something that we do not give much importance to. We bring to you Shikha Shah for #OurClimateSolutions who has been solving the problems of textile pollution and agricultural waste at AltMat.
"Waste is only a waste until it is wasted," says Rajesh Babu in the times when the garbage and the crisis are only increasing. Perseverant to work towards solid waste management, he is solving Bengaluru's garbage problem through a dry-waste processing centre to recycle them for multiple industrialusage.
Choosing not to opt for a Government or a Private job, Atul who is only 25 years old, has created a platform, with his brother, to share sustainable happiness, which is the easiest and biggest climate action. He believes we all need to adequately decide on what and how much to consume.
In India, there are over 2 million temples and the most harmful kind of toxic released from the temples is the ash from the incense sticks as most of the incense manufacturing companies use chemicals for binding and fragrance purposes, which after burning, become very toxic, polluting the water in the lakes and rivers.