Crop plants can be sensitive to their environment, but they can be made to adapt. We have to keep trying
Here’s an idea—forget B-schools, start S-schools
Promising sustainability projects are languishing in the waiting room because of a severe lack of trained talent. Could creating sustainability schools and imbuing them with some of the glamour lavish
A sustainability mafia to counter the carbon cartel?
At Suscrunch, it felt as though it was cool once again to start a venture, not just for money or valuation but for the sake of "saving us"
Our ACs are groaning under the summer heat. Where is the tech to save them, and us?
Current air conditioner models are ill-designed to deal with rising global temperatures
You should get paid for power cuts. No one is paying a green premium anyway
Should citizens be coy about getting rewarded for bearing the heat when our utilities aren’t keeping up their end of the deal?
Hybrids over EVs—are we putting our wallets before our lungs?
Whichever way you dice it, hybrids are ascendant. What does that mean for the air in our cities?
Sebi is giving out ESG-rating licences. Who pays will determine their sanctity
The markets regulator has allowed two models for ESG ratings, but it should discourage one of them to avoid falling into the trap that the West did
Like range anxiety, resale anxiety is also easing with newer EV models
If first-gen EVs did poorly on the resale-value front compared to conventional and hybrid vehicles, newer EV models are holding up. Even doing better than conventional vehicles, at least in the US mar
Visiting 2012 in 2024—why we need to replace cli-fi with climate non-fiction
The creative brigade everywhere has largely skirted climate change. But when they do take it up, cli-fi movies and novels induce anxiety and not enough action
PwC studies emissions of India’s top 100 listed companies. But highlights only half the story
Consulting services in the climate-change sector are full of conflicts. Even SBTi, the standard that 4,000 companies globally use for target-setting, is caught in this snare now
The single-use plastic ban has failed. That shouldn’t stop India from banning sachet plastic
The Global Plastics Treaty is heading toward banning ‘problematic’ plastics. Half of India’s plastics menace arises from multi-layered plastics used in sachet packaging which are greenwashed und
Everyone’s on a yatra these days. Why shouldn’t EVs?
Sushil Reddy has been putting EV endurance to the test, with an odd target group in mind
Forever chemicals and the Three Body Problem
There’s a lot we don’t know about PFAS contamination and the consequences, but what we know should be enough to get us cracking on clean-up efforts
For Cummins India, stock price and green costs seem to be on the same side
Analysts are bullish on the company and believe it is the best equipped to manage the emissions standard transition
The 13-year-old electric car enterprise that’s managed to sell everything but an electric car
Pravaig Dynamics says it has built, from scratch, almost everything that goes into an electric car. Monetising these technologies is how it’s funding its way to finally getting a model out of the ga
