The Green Guru Podcast

60% of the buildings in India that will exist in 2040 have not yet been constructed (IEA, 2021). Meet our Green Guru, Mr. Anuj Gupta. Deputy Manager at Design2Occupancy, a leading consultancy firm providing a spectrum of services in the green building domain in India and abroad. Anuj is also a co-founder at D2O Learning which helps learners explore green jobs in the sustainability industry. Besides this, he has many credentials add...

Meet our Green Guru for this week, Pratap Raju, Founding Partner at the Climate Collective Foundation and Country Head for New Energy Nexus India. Pratap started off his journey as a banker on wall street post his degree at Harvard but is now one of the leaders of the climate tech entrepreneurship ecosystem in India. He has built new ventures from scratch - not once or twice but multiple times in a wide array of sectors. He has had...

Welcome to Season 2 of the Green Guru Podcast. 

Meet our Green Guru for this week, Divya Sharma, Executive Director at Climate Group- India office, one of the most respected thought leaders in sustainable urban development and climate resilience space.  

Divya comes with a doctorate in urban climate resilience and a Master’s in urban development planning. She has extensively worked with national, state and municipal ...

Meet our Green Guru for this week, Ramnath Chandrasekhar, a conservation educator, nature photographer and a documentary filmmaker. He speaks about how his passion for visual storytelling has taken a shape of environmental education for the youth. We discuss the art of photography and making a career in it through consistent hard work, planning, trust-building, collaboration, upskilling and the right guidance from a mentor. He will...

"India needs 1400+ more companies like Shoonya to take care of our waste problem. There is enough and more work to do." - Manik Dhingra

Meet our Green Guru for this week, Manik Dhingra, co-founder at Shoonya Environmental Solutions, tackling the problem of plastic waste through circular waste management strategies. Listen to his journey of becoming a social entrepreneur and leveraging the power of trust, networks and money to make ...

Meet our Green Gurus for this week, the entrepreneur couple who are changing the way we do sustainability. After years of experience in tech and consulting, they are now on a mission to bring behavioural change through their tech-enabled social enterprise, At-Quest. Going beyond just leading sustainable lives, they are inspiring many to make it a career choice. Listen to their journey about how and why they decided to switch career...

Meet our Green Guru this week, the sustainability head of Lavasa City, Krunal Negandhi. Despite the political clout around Lavasa, it was built in design on the concepts of Biomimicry in design and architecture with many unique features like net zero water management, city-wide vermicomposting, and the use of soil biotechnology. After spending more than a  decade in building Lavasa, Krunal's current passion lies in bamboo prod...

Are you building a sustainability start up? Do you have a product/technology/service that will make a difference? Do you need a network and support  system to create an impact? Are you looking to collaborate with the brightest minds in the sustainability space in India? Meet our green guru Mr. Shravan Shankar who is building the perfect ecosystem for you to contribute to India's climate action. Learn from his diverse experienc...

Studies show that 42% of Indian households still rely entirely on biomass for cooking and 38 million people depend on unelectrified PHCs for healthcare in India (CEEW,2018) . Meet our Green Guru, Saurabh Motiwala, who is passionate about energy access. He works for providing reliable renewable energy to the masses and supporting greater technological innovation. Listen to him about his experiences of working in Bastar, one of the m...

Over $30 trillion has been invested in environmental social and governance (ESG) assets. There are over 600 ESG rankings in the market which rate companies on over 4000 key performance indicators. What are these ESG ratings? How they assess companies performance on ESG parameters and incorporate climate risks? Learn about the upcoming trend in the finance industry- ESG ratings with our Green Guru, Kashmira Pavaskar. Hear her talk a...

Do you know that India has one of the most ambitious renewable energy (RE) deployment targets in the world? Recent studies suggest that RE sector in India is expected to create up to 4.5 million new jobs over the next 25 years. 

Meet our Green Guru for today, Karan Vallicha, a computer science engineer turned energy finance professional, now working with one of the leading renewable energy developers in India. Learn from his e...

Wondered if it's possible to move back to the corporate life after founding a start-up? Wondered what does an impact assessment consultant do?  What are the skillsets required for impact reporting? Explore all this and more in this conversation with our Green Guru, Anupam Ravi. He is the Vice President at one of the leading impact assessment firms.

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Introducing the Green Guru Podcast.  Learn about why we started the podcast and what does being a Green Guru mean to us.

Jui and I believe that the key to transitioning to a green economy is more professionals taking up green careers. However, we lack mentorship in this sunrise sector. The right advice at the right time, just an ear to listen to and a slight nudge of encouragement can do wonders to a persons career. We st...