Bare Thoughts by Bare Necessities

If there’s one easy sustainability resolution you should make for 2024, it is to rethink your gifting options. From weddings to corporations to birthdays, we take you through everything. Tune in to hear some fun stories, memorable wedding experiences and a special feature from a dear friend. Here’s our new year gift to y’all!

As the year comes to a close, join our entire team as we come together to discuss our latest launches, the evolving landscape of gender neutrality and our takeaways from 2023. Tune in for this super fun and candid conversation. Earphones/headphones recommended :) ft. Veena, Mehul, Sahar, Sanjana and Tanya

Over the past year, Bare Necessities has been partnering with IKEA to deliver sustainability-themed workshops for their team and their #IKEAFamily members. IKEA is looking forward to inspire customers to take a step towards healthier & more sustainable living at home by adopting relevant home furnishing solutions, and workshops are one way this awareness is being spread. This led us this wonde...

With the holiday season around the corner, join us on a journey where we speak about the effects of over tourism and questioning if sustainable tourism is a possibility. Join us on this journey as we take you through practical ps on sustainable travel from ecostays to zero waste essentials. 

And Bare Thoughts is officially back! And for our first episode back, we start off recapping the positive stories we shared, but also the importance community has played in our growth story Community building has been quite the buzz lately, but do you find it challenging? We'd love to hear your thoughts! Check us out on our website - https://barenecessities.in/

There are only 4 weeks left until the new year!  Here are my 6 tips to jumpstart your new year. My goal is for you to live your best mindful sustainable life!

Let's face it, we know climate change is here. We also know that there's way too much information out there. But it's time we act above and beyond this, because to act, we need to first become fully aware of what is really happening From the concept of zero waste, to sustainable practices, to renewable energy, to us becoming more innovative whether we are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, designers an...

Poonam Bir Kasturi is the founder of Daily Dump. The organization focuses on creating easy and engaging solutions for conscious city living. It does this by making people aware of handling organic waste  through composting in fresh and simple ways. She  was trained as an industrial designer and is passionate about using design for changing systems. Her experience with teaching and workin...

Divya has a background in public health and human rights. She has worked in the grassroots environmental and health space for over 9 years. At Jhatkaa.org she is the Campaigns Director and manages digital campaigns on air pollution & climate change, gender & sexuality and other social justice issues. She is based out of Bangalore, Karnataka.  In this short podcast, Divya talks ab...

Arushi is a designer for social good; making handmade products and their makers relevant to the modern consumer. Combining traditional handcrafting processes with design, and a focus on consumer experience, she is creating positive social impact and consumer value through her venture The Initiative. Through hand quilting garment production waste, they create high quality, functional, ethically mad...

Swati has over 10 years of experience working on policy and practices for effective and affordable waste management in India, South Asia and Global South. Helping to build regulatory and technical capacities of cities in waste management; and highlighting the importance of decentralized waste management with focus on circular economy and resource efficiency through in-depth research and advocacy....

We were recently contacted by Saksham from Lights Out Studio to have an authentic and bare conversation on what we did as a small social enterprise to stay afloat during such unprecedented times, from how we pivoted and adapted to how we communicated.  We also discussed a variety of other topics like social impact, what it entails, how does sustainability become mainstream in India and system...

This episode, join us as we sit down Dhwaj Bagrecha to discuss sustainability, sanitary waste management, circularity and mindfulness. Dhwaj spends a lot of time doing yoga, sitting, then writing about this yoga and sitting (LOL). This has been the core of his life for some time now. Dhwaj moved back to Bangalore to get to know his family at a deeper level, after spending some years working as a v...

CB Ramkumar is an author, speaker, trainer, consultant, an entrepreneur, and an expert in applied sustainability. He is an expert in helping corporates convert to total sustainability while factoring in global norms like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations. Ram is a Board Member & Regional Director for South Asia with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), and...

Join us as we sit down with Gergana Damyanova, Co-Founder and CEO of blonde gone rogue - a London-based sustainable fashion start-up aiming at redefining experience and transparency in the industry. The brand uses sustainable, organic and up-cycled materials as well as innovative design methods to bring low-impact, unique clothing to the mass consumer. blonde gone rogue started in 2017 with the be...

Aaditi Joshi (born in 1980) occasionally stops on the Mumbai roadside to absorb the surreal landscape before her eyes-enormous hills of discarded plastic form a rugged urban topography. Joshi says that when looking at these materials and understanding the social fallout they cause, she is disturbed but also moved to incorporate them into her artistic practice. India has a history of disposable cul...

Amishi founded Upcycler’s Lab, Started in 2018, Upcycler’s Lab , a for profit social enterprise, uses behavioural economics and play based learning to change mindsets around the environment. We do this through our award winning products that include board games and puzzles on concepts such as waste segregation and ocean conservation. Since most human behaviour is formed by age 9, we primarily crea...

Today join us in welcoming Magda Cebrian , Co founder of Go Zero Waste, a social startup based in Barcelona that works to enable a waste-free life. We will be discussing a variety of topics from zero waste living, to circular economies, to building a healthy community and the importance of doing our own research! Together with her partner Martí they found themselves navigating their way towards a...

Mónica (Lima, Perú 1982) is a scientist, a chef and an artist. After receiving honors as a Ph. D. in molecular biology and biochemistry, Mónica directed all of her knowledge and time to pursue a Master's degree at the prestigious Basque Culinary Center. Since 2013, she has had various culinary experiences ranging from having her own artisan bakery and ice cream line to working at some of the highe...

Pragya Kapoor ( @pragyakapoor_ ) - A film producer, and a passionate, action-oriented environmentalist, most recently, the founder of an impact NGO, Ek Saath Foundation ( @eksaathfoundation ) - an initiative to educate and empower people to become part of the solution while understanding the effects our actions can have on the environment, and during COVID and lockdown, the NGO changed gears and d...

Amita Deshpande is the co-founder of Recharkha The EcoSocial Tribe (formerly) Aarohana EcoSocial Developments. She has worked extensively in Sustainable Development and CSR since the past 12 years. She designs our EcoSocial projects, managing them at the grassroots and ensuring their transparent operations. 1)  EcoSocial Conservation:  We work on Conserving the Environment, by UPCYC...

Sandra, a techno-anthropologist, and Tim, a material and product designer, discuss their personal journeys, their perspectives on transitioning to a circular economy and Hands. On. Matter, a collective that unfolds the potentials of novel as well as traditional materials and production techniques as an outset for questioning resource use, consumption, sustainability and material culture of our cur...

Our first episode of Bare Thoughts is a special one! We invited Asha Scariya, Chief Creative Officer at People Kraft - a humble impact-driven, sustainability focused enterprise. "By impacting design, you can design impact" is one of her core beliefs, and during this episode we dive into various social issues businesses need to address, from gender equality and equal opportunities, to transparent a...