In this inspiring episode of the Imagine India Podcast, host Shannon Olsson speaks with Dr. Lene Lange—scientist, author, advisor, and founder of LL Bioeconomy Research and Advisory. With a career spanning academia, government, and industry across over 100 countries, Dr. Lange shares her journey of bridging sectors to promote sustainable bioresource use and North-South collaboration.

She reflects on how a strong personal value system, respect for local knowledge, and a passion for science have guided her work across global contexts—from Danish universities to partnerships in the Global South.

The conversation also touches on the importance of mutual respect, inclusive innovation, and how we can collectively tackle biodiversity loss and climate challenges.

Our 40th Imagine India podcast is a beautiful conversation about 'kindness based on evidence', between two women leaders and earth-protectors, Prerna Singh Bindra; our guest for the month, and Shannon Olsson, our Founder & Global Director.

Listen to this full episode as Prerna talks about her experience of being a wildlife journalist, author, Tiger & wildlife protector, Standing Member of theNational Board for Wildlife, Government of India, and a PhD student.

This month we have with us Dr. Bhaskar Rajakumar who is a doctor, a professor, a public health advocate, and Director of Healthcare Initiatives at AI & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) at IISC. Bhaskar talks to Shannon about his personal experience early on in life that led him to chose a profession where he could work towards making healthcare accessible to all. He then goes on to talking about his experience with pandemic preparedness and the need to create a template for disaster management, and more.

Listen to the full episode to hear more about Bhaskar's vision on building a world with better healthcare, environment & educational practices.

Our latest episode of the Imagine India podcast features an inspiring leader; Sunitha Varadan. Sunitha is an entrepreneur, a mentor, an innovative thinker and the Founder of LoopM Alternatives. Catch Sunitha talk to Shannon Olsson about food security, plastic circularity, women empowerment, and more.

Listen to the full episode here.

Today's guest on the Imagine India podcast is a dynamic professional, an entrepreneur, a researcher, a teacher & a consultant - Aditya Parekh. But to the echo network Aditya is first our friend. He joined our network as a promising post-doctoral volunteer and from there, over the last 4 years has now grown into a dependable Consortium member & an expert on regenerative agriculture.

Listen to the whole episode to know how Aditya had taken risks to change his career paths based on intuition and has reached at a stage where he is making positive impacts in the lives of young students & professionals through his venture NaviClar.

In 2024 we had 13 brilliant lightbringers come to our Imagine India podcast and share their dreams & hopes with us all.

From farmer to founders to ecologists to students to forest officers and theatre artists, we have a beautiful cohort of guests who dream of a better, kinder India, and world!

Listen to snippets of the conversations here. You can access the full episodes on our Imagine India Spotify channel.

Welcome to the latest episode of the Imagine India podcast, where we discuss the sustainable dreams our changemakers have for our planet.

In this episode, two 'possibilists', Shannon Olsson and Kirtana Kumar, discuss the need to recognise art and theatre as important tools for learning and understanding science and sustainability.

If you are wondering what 'possibilists' mean, please tune into teh full episod now :)

This episode of the Imagine India podcast features Christian Rasmussen, who comes with a background in the Future of Sustainable Production and is the founder of ProBalance; a startup deeply committed to supporting the sustainability journey of small and medium-sized businesses through innovative technology and advanced data analysis.

Christian talks to our Global Director, Shannon Olsson about the circular economy, how our upbringing and the choices we make drive sustainable behaviour change. He also brings to the table a very deep and intriguing thought - our need to forgive the people who wronged us, and the planet, including ourselves. Tune into this insightful episode now!

In this month's episode Dr. Rakesh Mishra, Director, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society talks to Shannon Olsson about his humble upbringing, and how that has helped widen his opportunities. Rakesh also talks about how his team at TIGS is working towards making the treatment of rare genetic disorders easily affordable to all by using mRNA therapeutics approach.

Listen to the full episode and share your feedback with us.

Once again we have taken our Imagine India podcast 'on the road' in association with ECOBARI! Instead of speaking with our guests in their offices or studios, we visited the Mhaswandi village in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Our guest today is a very special person; Nanda Kale, or Nanda Taai as she is lovingly called by her community.

Listen to the powerful vision Nanda Taai has for India and our planet and how she and the women of her village are working towards achieving this dream