The Green Gen Podcast - Simplifying sustainability with Prerana Tirodkar
By Prerana Tirodkar
2021 is our year of transition, an opportunity to leverage our business, consumption and social influence towards the development of a regenerative economy.
The Green Gen Podcast - Simplifying sustainability with Prerana TirodkarAug 15, 2021
S2E3 Fighting COVID, ending hunger, guaranteeing education and empowering women w Enrich Lives Foundation and Prerana Tirodkar
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a hunger crisis. The livelihoods of tens of thousands of daily wage laborers and migrants are being taken away by lockdowns and a lack of economic activity. Enrich Lives Foundation is a registered non-profit and has been working to provide relief to the most vulnerable communities of Mumbai. Joining us on this episode is its founding member and trustee Shievani Upadhyay to discuss the power of collective action, community-led events and more.
The Green Gen Podcast is a fortnightly podcast series where we release new episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month. Our mission is to help share perspectives, solutions, innovations that advance green growth and support the 17 Global Goals (UN SDGs) Your feedback helps us build a stronger community of crusaders working towards addressing global challenges. Write to us on : thegreengen.community@gmail.com Follow our journey on Instagram | LinkedIn or check out our website http://greengenproject.com/ for more! Episode 4 launching on September 1, 2021
S2E2 Addressing mental fatigue, individual risk response and mental well-being w Shipra Dawar CEO iWill EpsyClinic
Along with the health impact most of us at various levels have experienced mental fatigue, feelings of helplessness, isolation, grief, anxiety, and depression. The past two years have seen an increase in demand for health support services has increased exponentially as a result. While the long-standing stigma of mental health is now coming to light with an increase in awareness and focus it is important we identify triggers and act upon it. Joining us on this episode is Shipra Dawar CEO and Founder of Will and ePsyClinic to discuss
- How to tackle denial and seek help when you or those around you are experiencing mental and emotional distress
- How we can take care of ourselves and our loved ones during a global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pathway towards strengthening our EQ while taking care of our IQ and more
About ePsyClinic.com, India's leading online mental health care service available leveraging new-age technologies of Video, Audio, Chat and Messages to make affordable and quality mental health care accessible to one and all
About The Green Gen Project: A community-led initiative to help share perspectives, solutions, innovations that advance green growth and support the 17 Global Goals (UN SDGs).
Your feedback helps us build a stronger community of crusaders working towards addressing global challenges. Write to us on : thegreengen.community@gmail.com
Follow our journey on Instagram | LinkedIn or check out our website http://greengenproject.com/ for more!
Episode 3 launching on August 15, 2021
S2E1 Is Single Use Plastic Waste - The next pandemic? | ft Refillable: Lokesh Sabhwani | w Prerana Tirodkar | S2E1
In episode 1 of season 2 on the Green Gen Podcast we have Lokesh Shambhwani founder of Refillable a Mumbai-based start-up addressing the impact of personal and household consumption of plastics.
About Refillable: A refill delivery service for your personal and home care products. “It is like the milkman delivery but for soap, dishwashing liquid, detergents”
The Green Gen Podcast is a fortnightly podcast series where we release new episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month. Our mission is to help share perspectives, solutions, innovations that advance green growth and support the 17 Global Goals (UN SDGs)
Your feedback helps us build a stronger community of crusaders working towards addressing global challenges.
Write to us on : thegreengen.community@gmail.com
Follow our journey on Instagram | LinkedIn or check out our website greengenproject.com/ for more!
Episode 2 launching on August 1, 2021
Introducing Season 2: A shift beyond sustainability to advancing Green Growth | The Green Gen Podcast w Prerana Tirodkar
Introducing Season 2 of The Green Gen Podcast one beyond sustainability focused on embracing systemic complexities.
Designed to help unleash our sphere of influence, showcase our power to be part of the solution both as members of the society we live in, consumers of the businesses that serve us, the businesses that we often blame, and the corporate world. Bringing perspectives, experiences, insights from world leaders, experts, change agents that aim to leave all of us enabled to build our theory of change.
New episode out every 1st and 15th of the month! Watch out this space for more
Visit our website: http://greengenproject.com/ for blogs and insights on how we can step up or Follow us on Instagram | LinkedIn for daily updates!
#13 Season Finale : Our life long purpose journey has just begun | Season 2 launching June 01
We are on a mission to unlock barriers and help accelerate action. On this purpose journey, we believe in delivering to our fullest potential through conversations with leaders, industry experts, practitioners, activists and more. Your feedback, experiences inputs are extremely valuable to us and we invite you to join us on this life long quest across various platforms -
Website: http://greengenproject.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greengenproject/
Write to us: thegreengen.community@gmail.com
We will be back with Season 2 soon!
#12 Experience: Journey of being an imperfect climate activist | Climate Hypocrisy w Prerana Tirodkar
Sometimes all you need is ONE person, ONE though, ONE choice to make a difference. Join the journey of three engineering student activists - purposeful yet imperfect as they discuss climate change and all that it means to them. Learn from a candid conversation between individuals joined by one community - The FRCRCE alumni network, what it took to awaken and act upon the intention of making a difference.
Guests on the Call: Tresa Pothen, (3rd year), Kevin Mathew (2nd year) and Vedaant Sunit (2nd year) Engineering students at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering)
The Green Gen Podcast is an effort to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help bridge the intention-action gap between an individual's pro-environmental behavior. In the episodes, we share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behavior natural and sustainability accessible, practical, and actionable.
CONNECT
Your feedback, nominations, and inputs help us enhance the content. In case you have any ideas or would like to share your experience please do write to us on https://thegreengen.community@gmail.com/ alternatively join our community on Instagram.
#11 The role of decentralized waste management system in developing nations w Siddharth Hande from Kabadiwalla Connect
The informal waste management system is what you might identify to as the scrap pickers, kabadiwallas, etc is one of the most underrated contributors to the ecosystem. One that provides gainful employment opportunities to lakhs of people and contributes to a significant share of our output.
In the episode, we share the journey of Kabadiwalla Connect which leverages the city’s existing informal waste infrastructure to deliver cost-effective and low carbon waste management solutions.
ABOUT
Kabadiwalla connect: https://www.kabadiwallaconnect.in/
Siddharth Hande: Sid is a spatial data analyst, a social entrepreneur and the founder of Kabadiwalla Connect. Previously he has worked as a consultant in some of India’s premier urban policy and research think tanks.
The Green Gen Podcast is an effort to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help bridge the intention-action gap between an individual's pro-environmental behavior. In the episodes, we share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behavior natural and sustainability accessible, practical, and actionable.
CONNECT
Your feedback, nominations, and inputs help us enhance the content. In case you have any ideas or would like to share your experience please do write to us on https://thegreengen.community@gmail.com/ alternatively join our community on Instagram.
#10 How to build climate action in cities w Punit Gandhi & Prerana Tirodkar
India’s complex urban challenges and in addition to increasing climate risks make it essential to prepare for and develop the ability to thrive in varying climate conditions. With increasing urbanization, urban areas are expected to house 40% of India’s population and contribute 75% of India’s GDP by 2030. This requires comprehensive development with a $30 billion investment program, the need for incorporating climate action within existing to ensure sustainable development.
In the episode understand how
- Integrated role of citizens and government to tackle climate action
- Indian policies and efforts to ensure sustainable socio-economic development
Resources
Punit Gandhi: https://www.punitgandhi.com/
National Institute of Urban Affairs: https://www.niua.org/
Climate Centre for Cities: http://niua.org/c-cube/
Our mission: The Green Gen Podcast is an effort to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help bridge the intention-action gap between an individual's pro-environmental behavior. In the episodes, we share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behavior natural and sustainability accessible, practical, and actionable.
Your feedback, nominations, and inputs help us enhance the content. In case you have any ideas or would like to share your experience please do write to us on https://thegreengen.community@gmail.com/ alternatively join our community on Instagram.
#9 Demystifying | What does Circular economy mean? w Smruthi Swaminathan & Varun Paul
Introducing The Green Affair Segment where we demystify complex jargons that surround Sustainability.
In this episode learn more about
- What does circular economy mean?
- Learn more about practical business examples that surround us
- How we as individuals can lead a circular, zero waste-conscious life.
To learn more about the concept head to The Ellen Macarthur Foundation
Our mission: The Green Gen Podcast is an effort to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help bridge the intention-action gap between an individual's pro-environmental behavior. In the episodes, we share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behavior natural and sustainability accessible, practical, and actionable.
Your feedback, nominations, and inputs help us enhance the content. In case you have any ideas or would like to share your experience please do write to us on https://thegreengen.community@gmail.com/ alternatively join our community on Instagram.
#8: Experience | What it will take to reduce human carbon impact in an Indian metro city w Smruthi Swaminathan
Being green is more than just buying 'eco'. It is an unshakable commitment to a sustainable lifestyle.
Introducing THE GREEN AFFAIR where we bring to you real experiences. Roadblocks that had to be tackled by individuals who choose to move beyond being bystanders and take ownership of the environmental crisis we face today.
In this episode, our guest Smruthi Swaminathan shares her journey of #Impact and how she analyzed, educated, and influenced her family to reduce their environmental impact.
ABOUT THE GREEN GEN PODCAST: We are on a mission to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help bridge the intention-action gap between an individual's pro-environmental behavior. In the episodes, we share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behavior natural and sustainability accessible, practical, and actionable.
Write to us with your feedback and do share your next podcast guest nomination. You can join our community on Instagram.
#7 How to lead a zero-waste lifestyle? | w Mehul Manjeshwar & Prerana Tirodkar
A zero-waste minimalistic lifestyle is one that most of us have either been hearing about or been an advocate of.
But what does it even mean?
Would it make sense to mindlessly hop on this bandwagon?Zero-waste lifestyle is a lifestyle change and an incremental journey towards leading a sustainable life. One that influences all environmental areas by preventing resource extraction, reducing the number of materials sent to the landfill or incinerator, and reducing pollution from producing, transporting, or disposing of materials.
Join Mehul Manjeshwar, CMO of barenecessities India and our host Prerana Tirodkar as they
- Basics of carbonfootprinting
- Discuss incremental actions towards a zero-waste lifestyle
- Individual steps that you could take to start your journey
- Nextflix documentaries that will leave you inspired.
ABOUT BARE NECESSITIES: Bare Necessities addresses serious flaws in manufacturing, distribution, and consumption by innovating and providing sustainable solutions to waste, and identifying problems that more companies need to address if they want to be innovative and socially-conscious.
ABOUT THE GREEN GEN PODCAST: Our mission is to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help individuals identify their impact sphere. Share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behavior natural and sustainability accessible, practical and actionable.
Write to us with your feedback and do share your next podcast guest nomination. You can join our community on Instagram.
#6 How to drive sustainability in business? | Anita Varshney x Circular Business Podcast x Prerana Tirodkar
2021 is one of the most critical years in our journey towards achieving the UN global goals. In order to accelerate our journey, we need to collaborate and make sustainability everyone's problem. In this episode, Anita shares her journey of driving global partnerships for sustainable development across the private and public sectors and the importance of business in the future of our planet.
RESOURCES FOR FURTHER DETAILS
SDG Ambition Guides: Enable companies to move beyond incremental progress and step-up transformative change – unlocking business value, building business resilience, and enabling long-term growth.
SAP Purpose Portal: A portal designed to help the world run better and improve people's lives is the guiding principle to our business strategy – in particular, our sustainability, health, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) portfolio.
SAP Climate 21: The SAP solution portfolio encompasses analytical content, best practices, and embedded software capabilities across end-to-end processes.
ABOUT CIRCULAR BUSINESS PODCAST INDIA: A podcast hosted by Sreepriya Sridharan on the mission to collaborate with individuals & organizations who are working towards United Nations- Sustainable Development Goals.
CONTACT
Anita Varshney | Sreepriya Sridharan | Prerana Tirodkar
Write to us with your feedback let us co-create value. Join our community on Instagram
#5 Bring purpose to the core of everything you do w Anita Varshney, Global Vice President, Strategy SAP S/4HANA Sustainability
Together we create magic!
Delighted to present our first collaboration episode with the Circular Business Podcast India (https://www.circularbusinesspodcastindia.com/) and Anita Vashney, who is the Global Vice President, Strategy SAP S/4HANA Sustainability.
Join this episode to learn more about:
a. How you can find meaning at work and drive sustainability in business and everything you do.
b. Learn from Anita's journey of building partnerships and accelerating efforts to derive business and societal value.
c. Journey of how 3 management consulting firms built an SDG Ambition Guidance to Accelerate Business Action to Achieve the SDGs
d. Small steps that you can take to start understanding what sustainability in business means
Reach out:
Write to us with your feedback, nominations and opinions on thegreengen.community@gmail.com
Anita: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varshneyanita/
Sreepriya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreepriyasridharan/
Prerana Tirodkar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prerana-tirodkar/
About The Podcasts
The Green Gen Podcast: Our mission is to simplify the understanding of sustainability and help individuals identify their impact sphere. Share solutions, insights, knowledge bytes that help make responsible behaviour natural and sustainability accessible, practical and actionable.
The Circular Business Podcast: On a mission to explore India's emerging circular economy through podcast media and making circularity a part of everyday conversation (https://www.circularbusinesspodcastindia.com/)
#4 How to challenge your next eco-purchase? w Rhea Singhal | Ecoware India
Today consumers want to buy sustainable, eco-friendly products, grass-root movements are now pushing organisations to take ownership and become more sustainable. However, are we questioning the product origin?
Are we as consumers taking small steps that help incentivize genuine products?
In this episode, our host Prerana Tirodkar is joined by Rhea Majumdar Singhal, founder and CEO of Eco-ware - India's first and largest manufacturer of eco-friendly food packaging as they discuss
- Closed-loop industry solutions
- Eco-friendly alternatives to plastic packaging
- Ways to challenge businesses and consciously drive the sustainable eco-friendly product purchase
- Small steps to a sustainable lifestyle
About Ecoware: One stop shop to 100% natural, biodegradable and ecofriendly packaging solutions (https://ecoware.in/)
Rhea Sighal: https://bit.ly/2Ncg3xf
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#3: Debunking myths about eco-friendly stays w Prerna Prasad, founder ecoplore
Did you know tourism is the fourth-largest contributor to Co2 production? While transport is primarily responsible to drive the impact accommodation contributes to over one-fourth of the total impact.
What if the solution to all of this isn’t cutting down on your travel but is planning better?
Join Prerana Prasad the founder of Ecoplore an aggregator platform for eco-friendly hotels across India and Varun Paul a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Ashoka Fellow and Social impact consultant at Sattva consulting as we share our simple guide that will leave your inspired and help you plan your next vacation and travel responsibly.
There is so much out there that is downright breathtaking to explore do not deny yourself of the joy of travelling and experiencing true happiness.
Ecoplore Website : http://ecoplore.com/
LinkedIn Contacts
Prerana Prasad : https://www.linkedin.com/in/prerna-prasad-8bb49b19/
Varun Paul - https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-paul/
Feel free to share your views, nominations and insights on the podcast by writing to your host Prerana Tirodkar on Prerana.n.tirodkar@gmail.com
#2 : Reduce carbon impact while traveling w Mehul Manjeshwar & Prerana Tirodkar
Join Mehul Manjeshwar the chief marketing officer at Bare Necessities Zero Waste and your host Prerana Tirodkar as they sit down to discuss steps that we as individuals could take to reduce our environmental impact while exploring our planet!
On this episode learn about
a. Environmental Anxiety
b. 4 steps to shrink your carbon footprint while you travel
c. Journey of a global citizen to a social enterprise Bare!
Do share your feedback with the host on thegreengen.community@gmail.com or reach our to our host (Prerana Tirodkar) on LinkedIn and Instagram!
Your views and opinions help enhance the content and serve the community better.
Thank you for listening!
#1 : Pathway to sustainability ownership w Dr. CB Bhattacharya
In the first episode, our host Prerana Tirodkar is joined by Dr. CB Bhattacharya. Dr. CB Bhattacharya is the founder of The Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) at the University of Pittsburgh and a world-renowned expert in the domain of sustainability in business. His research and teaching focus specifically on how companies can use underleveraged “intangible assets” such as corporate identity, reputation, corporate social responsibility and sustainability to strengthen stakeholder relationships and drive firm market value.
Corporate sustainability for the longest time has been misunderstood as a responsibility of the CSR department. However, 2021 demands ownership right from the mailroom to the boardroom. In this episode identify how we can leverage corporate sustainability to drive business and societal value.
Write to Dr. CB on cb@pitt.edu
Thank you for your time and interest!
Do write to me with your invaluable inputs, feedback or nomination on prerana.n.tirodkar@gmail.com or reach out to me on LinkedIn - Prerana Tirodkar
Introducing The Green Gen Podcast - Simplifying sustainability with Prerana Tirodkar
The Green Gen Podcast is an effort to simplify sustainability, demystify myths and identify cues that help take incremental steps to tackle the environmental crisis. Join Prerana Tirodkar as she is joined by world leaders, business professionals, activists and advocates to make sustainability everyone's business and responsible action accessible.
The podcast is an effort to ask simple questions that help share experiences, wisdom and solution cues to help leaders of the future to prepare for the changing market conditions, that increases awareness about complex jargons and influences our traditional unconscious habits.
2021 is our year of transition from climate advocacy to action, an opportunity to take ownership and be part of the solution. Our chance to protect our planet, reduce poverty, ensure equal opportunities for all and pass - on a decent future to our children.