India is a big country with an even bigger populace, 14 percent of which is undernourished. The reason is not enough produce but the immense amount of food waste, which could potentially fill every hungry stomach in the nation. India is only second to China
One of What Design Can Do’s No Waste Challenge winners, Sustrato transforms pineapple industry waste into biomaterials and sustainable products. Sustrato is an experimental project that was founded by Mexican resident Andrea Michael De La Peña Aguirre as a final year project for her bachelor’s
Wind power is a sustainable and renewable source of energy. Climate change has effectively helped in lowering the cost of wind power to an extent that now it can compete with fossil fuels. However, the top turbine makers fear that wind power will become too
Have you ever dreamt of living in a floating city? A city with no glitches, which remains unaffected by all the magnitudes of climate change. All this sounds dreamy and wistful at the same time but what if someone tells you that this dream city
We often tend to forget that with the growing population the land is not going to increase. The land disputes and cases of encroachments that still exist are going to increase in the coming times. In order to resolve the problem associated with land, Chennai-based
E-waste is emerging at a rapid pace globally and it has become one of the fastest-growing waste streams on the earth. Not only electronic-waste is one of the most toxic waste out there but it is also one that’s very difficult to refurbish. India happens
In this day and age electricity has become an integral part of our life. Air conditioners are not less than a bliss during summers but without electric power, this innovation would have not been of any use. There are around 940 million people in the
The cases of wildfires have exceedingly grown that have burned down thousands of hectares of forest lands, making it a great concern as restoration of forests is not as easy as it sounds. This year, nearly 47,201 cases of wildfire burned around 6,480,861 acres of
Plastic is a non-biodegradable material, which is one of its major drawbacks. Plastic is widely used in food packaging, a toxic practice to which many manufacturers are trying to find eco-friendly substitutes. Establishing itself as a substitute for plastic packaging, Gousto’s edible packaging has become
Indoor spaces are considered to be even more polluted than the outdoors. In order to deal with this problem, people use indoor air purifiers but only a few incorporate nature in its process of purification. Aria, a NASA-inspired hybrid air purifier is one such example