The Sustainability Network: Recent Episodes
Goli Soda
Empowering people to seamlessly adopt a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle has always been important to us. Throughout Goli Soda's seven year journey, we've met some incredibly inspiring entrepreneurs who share our dreams for a greener planet. The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more on our Instagram live streams.
Shubhashree is an illustrator and a writer with several interests. Her work revolves around themes of sustainability, food and travel. An erstwhile engineer, she is known for her Let’s Talk Trash project, having published illustrated books to spread awareness about our garbage crisis. Her simple illustrations and clear narrative style have struck a chord with many and her books have received wide media coverage as well. She facilitates workshops around sustainability as well as visual journalling
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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KaReGhar Designs is a Mumbai-based company turning scrap into functional artwork. The concept is the brainchild of Ankita Purav and Haider Ali Mehta. The duo began in a small way, making clocks from disc brakes and lamps from plumbing pipes, which they sold to family and friends. However, what started as a hobby soon turned into a business after Radhika Butala and Parveen Jiterwal of The Whiteboard Company (TWC), a startup incubator in Mumbai, convinced them to quit their jobs to pursue this full time.
At KaReGhar, they handpick and handcraft products, a single piece at a time. Here, they endeavor to make functional pieces of art that are transformed to make a positive impact on all of us and our environment.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Soumya Kalluri is a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters degree in Commercial Vehicle Technology from Germany. Her experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) while working at John Deere, Germany triggered her interest in the area of sustainability. The end-of-life of any LCA to her is the most important phase, as this is the phase where a material can be recovered or lost. In present times, due to fast fashion, the majority of textiles are incinerated or dumped into landfills. "Dwij" is her social enterprise to address this issue. She firmly believes that sustainability is not only about the environment and economy, but also about being fair to all the stakeholders in the process including the customer.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Adaaya is a manufacturer of palm leaf plates in Chennai. Run by two ex bankers, their focus market is USA, Australia, Singapore. Currently their products are being supplied to 27 countries. Their Palm leaf plates are a completely eco-friendly option for replacing plastics for food services.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Out to prove that fashion can be earth- and people-friendly as well as make profits, this Mumbai-meets-Milan fashion label has won awards like Eco Age's Green Carpet and the support of luxury label Gucci for its work in the circular economy.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Faakhra, since beginning has been keenly interested in Life, its purpose and how to live humanely and responsibly. She has studied Psychology and Social Work. This quest to live a conscious life inspired her to co-found Mitti Se, which is a minimalist, vegan and eco-friendly brand.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Mridula Shridhar is an instrumentation Engineer, with a management degree from IIM, Kolkatta. Mridula started her career in the early education space in 2000. Her experience of working with preschools across India, combined with a deep understanding of how young children learn through play, led to the creation of Skola Toys.
Skola Toys are designed to provide delightful practical learning experiences to young children. As the little Skolars embark on journeys in the Skola lands of learning, they discover a wealth of knowledge and build problem solving skills, all through play!
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Vimlendu Jha (founder, Green The Map) is one of the leading environmentalists of India and is the founder and Executive Director of a New Delhi based not-for-profit Swechha (www.swechha.in). He is also a MAC Member for Sustainable Lifestyle and Education under 10YFP Program of UN Environment. He is also one of the key environmental commentators in Asia, contributing regularly to some of the leading media and research networks such as CNN, Reuters, Scroll etc.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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With a deep interest in the environment & sustainability, TreeWear was a natural progression of Mikail's interest in understanding the planet & how we can live in harmony with nature. Since we are in an environmental crisis, the idea of trees being the first line of defence in our battle against climate change is one that has stuck with the brand & the way we empower to the customer to choose better. Through simplicity, constant experimentation & ingenuity, we believe that we can make eco-friendly & natural zero-waste products which do not harm the planet after use
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Nisha is the Creative Head of Ariro, and her husband Vasanth Kumar is the Business Head of Ariro. They incorporate Montessori principles in designing simple and purposeful toys. Their toys are made with medicinal woods like neem and ivory. They are handcrafted by rural artisans across India. Ariro began when they started searching for Montessori toys for their daughter who was affected by eczema, with her skin reacting to the plastic found in most toys.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Kathy and Jessamijn - both residents of Auroville - co-founded Eco Femme together in 2010 after they met and discovered a common excitement about something very unusual at the time - cloth pads! They both shared a love for the earth and concern for growing use of plastics and decided to direct their passions into attempting to launch and sustain a cloth pad revolution in India - at a time where most women were switching from traditional use of cloth to modern sanitary napkins.
Eco Femme is now in its 10th year and the product has gradually gained a lot of attention both in India and around the world as sustainable menstruation becomes more and more a mainstream choice.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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An engineer-turned-entrepreneur, Swathi Sri Aravind is a new-age mother who believes in driving a change that positively impacts the lives of mothers and babies around - a major reason for her and two others to launch A Toddler Thing in July 2017.
Today, Swathi is a successful mom-preneur, taking inspiration from mothers and babies around her, as well as her own daughter, with an eagerness to create an environment friendly baby eco-system close to home. With numerous awards to their start-up, Swathi and her co-founders believe that they have but tapped a small portion of the vast potential that they see in delivering this baby-environment safe eco-systems.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Bharti Kannan is an engineer by qualification and also holds a master's degree in social sciences from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Positioned at the confluence of her academic specializations in gender and public health, she founded Boondh in 2016, as a social enterprise that works holistically on menstrual literacy, advocacy, activism, policy and sustainable products.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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Poonam Bir Kasturi is trained as an industrial designer and is passionate about using design for changing systems. Her experience with teaching and working in both the industrial and craft sectors and as a design educator informs her work at the helm of Daily Dump. She is deeply interested in seeing how design can actually engage with what people call messy problems, larger problems. And she likes to focus on creating easy and engaging solutions for conscious city living; to make people aware of the big picture in fresh and simple ways.
As a design-led brand of PBK Waste Solutions Pvt Ltd, Daily Dump is responsible for designing and creating India’s first urban home composter, in 2006.
The Sustainability Network is a network of truly amazing brands we've had the pleasure of working with and a series of conversations with their founders. Our founder, Sruti Harihara Subramanian, has been speaking to them about the journey of their brands, their products, the future of sustainability and more, on our Instagram livestreams.
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