Sustainability - Question of Cities

If lakes are built over, where will water go, ask Bengaluru kids

What it means to see a city through young eyes and reflect on questions that adults bypass, consciously or unconsciously, came through in a social experiment. The ‘Walk on Bangalore’ exploration, led by the Mod Foundation, found that the questions…

Feminism meets environmentalism but women left out of decision-making

As women, across barriers of caste and class and other social indices, assert themselves, they also touch upon environmental issues that are deeply tied to their lives, living conditions, work and more. They raise voices as women demanding gender justice…

Resistance, confrontation,
anti-extractivist struggles in the Global South

Rising heat waves, illegal mining, degradation of water bodies and depletion of trees are increasing across the world, especially in countries of the Global South where most of the world’s vulnerable population lives. Environmentalism in these countries, or among vulnerable…

Fighting erosion, climate change in the Sundarbans

The people of the Sundarbans show how they are the force of resilience, battling cyclones, and disrupted livelihoods. Adopting nature-based solutions, they use vetiver as a powerful natural tool to combat soil erosion and understand that protecting the streambanks from…

Towards making green buildings a reality in India

Sustainability in the construction sector, especially green buildings, should not be an afterthought but a fundamental component of building design itself. Pointing to tangible and intangible benefits for all stakeholders, the green building rating system brought out guidelines, further leveraged…

They woke us up to climate change, and an equitable world

Over the past decades, multilateral agencies and international organisations drew forces together to conduct studies that led to path-breaking reports on environment and development, brought world leaders together to agree on cutting emissions, and laid down the goals and framework…

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If lakes are built over, where will water go, ask Bengaluru kids

Feminism meets environmentalism but women left out of decision-making

Resistance, confrontation,
anti-extractivist struggles in the Global South

Fighting erosion, climate change in the Sundarbans

Towards making green buildings a reality in India

They woke us up to climate change, and an equitable world

‘The Delhi metro is inclusive but also not equitable’

Mumbai’s urban forests are missing and unrecognised: Report

From nature in cities to imagining cities in nature, for our future

They broke the glass ceiling to build and design sustainable cities