Dusshera just passed us by, and before we know it, Deepavali would have crept up on us. As much as I love the cheer, family time and the well-deserved breaks from work that festivals bring us, it is hard to not ignore the amount of waste that piles up both inside and outside the house.…
I have always been a little eco-conscious with whatever I did from a very young age. I used to avoid plastic bags wherever I went. Work as a film maker took me away from Chennai for a long time, a few years ago.When I came back to Chennai that year, I was appalled by the…
The popular notion when it comes to being eco-friendly, or even if you’re trying to live a sustainable life, is that you have to punish yourself a fair amount to achieve it. This isn’t true, because if it was, I wouldn’t be trying to do this. Living a sustainable life doesn’t mean you have to…
I have a cousin 7 years younger to me. That’s usually the magic number for a generation-gap-wedge. But I find that SHE and I get along great in every which way. Conversations are free-flowing, character flaws are similar, laziness-meters and drinking-thresholds are in sync and above all, we are the same size. Out of her many endearing…
While explaining how the compost pot works at our store. I convince many people on the importance of segregation. The majority 60 percent of our waste at home can be composted and the remaining plastic and paper waste can be sent for recycling. There is a sense of achievement when we feel that we have…
You may have been hearing about cloth pads making a comeback, but the ones that are in the market now are a far, far cry from the makeshift ones that our grandmothers and mothers wore, but if you’re still thinking about making the shift from disposable pads to cloth pads, here are five reasons that…
This is a matter-of-fact recital about 2 strangers. Doing very strange things. Like protecting the earth. Stranger number 1 is a pani-puri wala in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa. He rolls his golgappa trolley in every evening for a few hours and stays put outside Mehers, a famous sari shop in the city of temples. He mixes and…
One of the reasons I took so long to getstarted on building a sustainable wardrobe was primarily because of my (wrong)perceptions of people who lived sustainably. The idea of a wardrobe restrictedto Jolna Pais and other items of clothing and accessories that aredepressing to think of, let alone look at, was not one that appealed to me.However,…
Cooking doesn’t like me too much. I’ve tried really hard to cajole her with my full-baked attempts, but she just doesn’t care for any of my stirring and sprinkling. I remember starting out in the kitchen, struggling to get the stove to light up. And I wanted my ambitious first dish to be a pasta…
