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Are today’s children less healthy than before? As a society, we like to believe that each generation will be better off than the last. That optimism keeps us moving forward. But if we pause for a moment, do a few things feel less reassuring than we’d like them to be? Take the rise in allergies among children. Is it simply better diagnosis and greater awareness, or are kids genuinely being exposed...

Today Sakshi and I meet Falguni, the founder of OliveNutrition24 who breaks down this complicated and emotional topic of feeding kids and babies. What is the right way to introduce your baby to new food? Screen time during eating, yay or nay? How does our food behaviour impact your child? (Do you now need to fake-like karela?) All this and a lot more - in sharp 30 min covering some extremely inter...

Today, Sakshi and Kinshuk meet Kunal Kanwar, who is an ICC LEVEL 2 Cricket coach! That is a BIG DEAL guys!  Kunal has over a decade of experience in sports education and is the founder and director of TUG sports, a premier sports coaching academy based in Noida.  We discuss many things - including, when should parents decide to go with professional coaching, why do kids drop out of sports, how sho...

What are the developmental milestones in children - and when do you need to worry? What signs should you be watchful of as a parent? What are the common myths surrounding developmental disorders? What kind of assessments do parents need to know about? Heavy questions right? That's what we thought. Knowledge is the best way to fight parenting challenges. In this episode, we are joined by our guest,...

awenest Parent Podcast is brought to you by awenest baby, the 100% plant-based baby care brand. Kinshuk and Sakshi kick off the show with Nidhi Sudhan , a responsible tech & media advocate. Nidhi cofounded Citizen Digital Foundation in 2021 to foster Information Literacy and Responsible Innovation. Screentime for kids is something that every parent universally worries about - how much, from wh...

awenest Parent Podcast is brought to you by awenest baby, the 100% plant-based baby care brand. Kinshuk and Sakshi kick off the show with Dr. Ashvith Shetty, a reputed Dermatologist and Cosmetologist. Dr. Ashvith also gives a mother's perspective on childrens' skin care routines. Parents worry about every aspect of their kids' wellbeing, skin care being a big part of it. Today we break some myths...

 In this episode, Tania and Kinshuk meet Swapnil Shrivastav. He is the founder and CEO of Uravu labs, a company working on extracting water from air. Water from thin air - wouldn't that be something? Swapnil explains in meticulous detail the technology, its benefits and applications. 

Today the Sustainably Yours team speaks to Nikit  on the usage of satellite data for making the world a sustainable place. Nikit is the founder of Tathya. Earth - a start up focusing on the real time monitoring of global supply chain and its impact on the environment.  What will you learn from this episode?  How is satellite data important and what are the potential applications?  How is Tathya. E...

Today we speak to Gayatri Joshi , founder of EcoSansar , an online zerowaste store which has the convenience of a ecommerce store 'packed'  with the goodness of zero waste. Active in Bangalore, and having a very loyal base of customers, EcoSansar promises to take back all the packaging for refill and resupply.  As the hosts of this episode (Both Kinshuk and Tania) have been grocery retailers as so...

What is the toughest thing to recycle? MLP or Multi-layered plastic. Who is recycling it today in India -  no one that we knew of. It is largely getting burnt for energy recovery - producing harmful fumes and what not. Only may be 2-3% of the entire volume is potentially going for pyrolysis. Anish Malpani and his team at Ashaya are recycling what no one recycles - Multi layered plastic (those tetr...

The world population will reach 10 bn by 2050. A growing concern is, how to meet the protein requirements of this expanding population. Even today, the world has 1 billion cattle, 25 billion chicken, almost 1 billion pigs and numerous fish and shrimp farms. We need to feed these animals to eventually feed us.  Kinshuk and Tania from the Sustainably Yours team meet Ankit Alok Bagaria , who is addre...

Today Tania & Kinshuk from the Sustainably Yours team meet Dipna and Dipti, founders of the ethical fashion brand Love The World Today.  Love The World Today started as a fashion blog. Overtime, it has evolved into a sustainable clothing brand for children that is 100% designed and made in India.  Dipna and Dipti are sisters - and though their career paths have been different, they connected o...

Today the Green Shoots team understands how to live zero-waste. We meet Soumya, a sustainability advocate and practitioner. She is extremely popular on Instagram as greenfeetcleanfeet There are several reels and posts by her on how to live sustainably and you must check them out for recipes and hacks. In today's episode, you can learn the following: - How to start your waste-free life? - What are...

Did you know that India had over 2.5 million lakes in 1947 - and the count has drastically come down to 0.5 million? What impact does this have on our groundwater, bio-diversity, and well-being in general? How can these water bodies be revived? Today the Green Shoots team meets up with Mr. Ramveer Tanwar, fondly known as the Pondman of India. Mr. Tanwar, fondly known as the Pondman of India is an...

Today the Green Shoots team dives into the management of wet waste. The fruit peels and the food leftovers that we throw away are potentially massive sources of energy and can enrich our soil too! Learn how Rahul Khera, through his brainchild Balancing Bits is solving the large problem of wet waste recycling. This episode is the second in a  two part series and focuses solely on the challenges, op...

Today the Green Shoots team dives into the management of wet waste. The fruit peels and the food leftovers that we throw away are potentially massive sources of energy and can enrich our soil too! Learn how Rahul Khera, through his brainchild Balancing Bits is solving the large problem of wet waste recycling. This episode is the first in a  2 part series and focuses solely on the challenges, oppor...

Hello, planet-friendly people out there! We demystify sustainable living, one topic at a time. Today we address sustainable parenting! Tania and Kinshuk from the Green Shoots team meet Sonika Bhasin and her 3-year-old, Abir. Sonika's sustainability journey started with the birth of her son, and her related questions about how can we hand over this planet better than we found it, to our next genera...

Today the Green Shoots team continues the conversation with Srini and Shubhashree , the authors of (Im)perfectly Zero Waste . They have also co-authored the book - The Everyday Eco-Warrior. Learn all about #zerowaste #zerowasteliving #sustainableliving in this episode. Specifically, learn about the following in this episode:  The recipes & DIYs in the book which are easy to emulate How individ...

Today the Green Shoots team meets Srini and Shubhashree , the authors of (Im)perfectly Zero Waste . They have also co-authored the book - The Everyday Eco-Warrior. Learn all about #zerowaste #zerowasteliving #sustainableliving in this episode. Specifically, learn about the following:  The sustainability triggers of the authors  How to start living a sustainable life  The concept of zero-waste and...

Each one of us is a consumer – and what we consume defines us. Our choices as consumers decide the fate of this planet and its inhabitants. It also impacts our health and the kind of values we will embed in our children. We must choose wisely. A brand of cookies that we discovered is trying to be sustainable at various levels. Vaibhav Dugar, linkedin.com/in/vaibhavdugar co-creator of Kivu kivu.in...

India has started its journey of waste management - however, we have a long way to go. Availability of data, encouraging the informal sector to adopt technology, generating high-quality recycled material, encouraging people like you and me to segregate our waste - these are just some of the issues the sector deals with on a daily basis.  We are back with another informative session with India-cent...

Today, the Green Shoots team continues its conversation on the Indian plastic story. With our guest Richa Malik, the founder of TheHappyTurtle.in  https://www.thehappyturtle.in/, we learn about a new festival - Plastic Free July . We follow it up with the business models in the space, the meaning of sustainable growth, and know a little about the teams and organizations that are doing meaningful w...

Today, the Green Shoots team dives into the Indian plastic story. We start by giving you a sense of the plastic waste landscape, and then meet Richa Malik, the founder of TheHappyTurtle.in.  https://www.thehappyturtle.in/ Richa has made it her life's mission to make people & organizations aware of the plastic menace and is generous enough to distill her years of experience within 2 podcast epi...

In the second part of our conversation with Shravan, Kinshuk and Atul deep dive into the formats and business models that are winning in the sustainability space. Also, a separate section on how retailers and consumers (meaning us) can live sustainably.  Learn about the following in this episode: What kind of business models work the best in this space?  Learn also about what you and I can do to m...

This episode is the first part in a two part series conversation with Shravan Shankar, a veteran in the field of sustainability  in India. Learn about the following in this episode: What are the big Sustainability challenges that India needs to solve for? What are the struggles of start ups in this field? Learn also about how the Impressario Group is partnering with CIMA to make sustainable choice...