The Green Gen Podcast - Simplifying sustainability with 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.

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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

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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 [email protected]

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/)

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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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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

Thank you for your time and interest!

Do write to me with your invaluable inputs, feedback or nomination on [email protected] or reach out to me on LinkedIn - 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.