Waste Wise Trust (WWT)

Waste Wise Trust (WWT) is a non-profit organization (founded in 2003) that provides socially and environmentally responsible solid waste management services to the corporate sector and residential communities in Bangalore. They have more than 20 years of experience working on behalf of informal waste pickers and their families, and promoting environmental sustainability through integral solid waste management. Waste Wise Trust promotes participation in civic cleanliness, waste segregation, waste minimization and recycling. WWT mainly works towards the development of people involved in waste picking activities.

Waste Wise Trust aspires to excel in the field by providing high quality professional waste management services to the corporate, institutions, apartments, residential colonies and small town/city municipalities. It’s mission is to provide complete end-to-end waste management solutions that are anchored in socially responsible and environmentally friendly approaches to create zero waste organizations and societies while creating formal job opportunities for waste pickers.

WWT believes in the model of organized solid waste management through waste pickers, as this approach creates sustainable job opportunities for waste pickers, provides healthier and dignified working environment and is the best way to maximize the recycling thus reducing the carbon footprint on earth. 

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Ecopreneurist : a blog for eco-entrepreneurs

Ecopreneurist is a blog for eco-minded entrepreneurs. They deliver advice, tools, and services to help fellow eco-entrepreneurs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. It contains information and advice covering business and management tasks, including eco-marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and other sustainable start-up opportunities. 

Ecopreneurist covers the latest trends in sustainable and socially responsible startups, companies and products. Their target audience consists of eco-entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs incorporating sustainability into their business plans. They also bring eco-business success stories to its readers.

Ecopreneurist.com is part of the Important Media network that combines the observations of a wide variety of well-known writers in the sustainable business eco-sphere.

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Boond

By: Shubhendu Shekhar

The Boond mission is to solve some of the biggest global challenges - adequate lighting, access to clean drinking water and pest control affecting the remote areas of the world. Through its innovative environment friendly products and sustainable business oriented approach.

Boond solves big global challenges through collective effort by ordinary individuals. In order to do so, it connects those who have the resources and the capacity to those who still lack the necessities like lighting and clean water. The Boond movement believes that by using innovative technology, smart financing and creating processes for entrepreneurial development, big changes can be made in small increments or boonds. 

Boond creates entrepreneurs who sell and service development products like solar lamps (and home systems), water filters, efficient cooking stoves, dynamo lamps and mosquito nets in remote rural areas or areas affected by calamities (floods etc.). The products are aimed at providing the poor with access to adequate lighting, clean water, efficient cooking and pest control, thereby improving their productivity and health. By train young people in becoming entrepreneurs Boond also provides livelihood to the rural unemployed while at the same time ensuring that best servicing standards are maintained.

The products are manufactured in India and are environmentally friendly. The solar lamp also helps in carbon reduction as it substitutes kerosene usage, thus making a secondary impact as well. 

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Waste Ventures

by: Riddhi Mukherjee

Waste Ventures incubates solid waste management companies owned and operated by waste pickers. It provides them a solid waste management blueprint to recycle, compost, and earn carbon credits from waste collected in addition to organizational assistance in devising a profitable business that can attract commercial investment.

Waste Ventures adopts an inclusive strategy where it is aiming to work together with all stakeholders in the Waste Management ecosystem. Their operations are oriented around three main activities - Build, Disseminate and Foster. In order to create a new sector of waste management in developing countries it believes it's necessary to go beyond simply creating waste picker corporations, but also enable others to follow our blueprint as well as changing the regulatory environment for waste management.

Waste Ventures mission is transforming the way garbage is handled all over the developing world into a more environmentally and socially friendly process based on market mechanisms.

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Nuru Lights

by Brototi Roy

Nuru Lights is a social enterprise that sought to invent an affordable and clean off-grid lighting system for the world’s poor. The main reasons behind the motive to replace kerosene by the company are to bring on an affordable, healthy, environmentally friendly and safe for purpose way of lightning the world. 

This venture has a myriad of positive impacts for the rural people. Not only it's an affordable form of lighting system, resulting in over a 85% savings over kerosene but also helps the environment by providing an emissions-free lighting system and aids in employment opportunities for the local people. Their innovative technology won many awards and business plan competitions and has been mentioned in the New York Times, Fortune magazine and the likes.

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KALPAVRISHK

 by Soubhik Chakrabarti

KALPAVRIKSH is a non profit organisation working on environmental and social issues. The group began in 1979 with a campaign led by students to save Delhi's Ridge Forest. They work on local, national and global levels and are based in Delhi and Pune. Kalpavriksh believes that a country can develop meaningfully only when ecological sustainability and social equity are guaranteed, and a sense of respect for, and oneness with nature and fellow humans is achieved.

Throughout the years, KALPAVRISHK has led many awareness campaigns, and done research on environment development issues. KALPAVRISHK has taken many strong positions on environmental issues and have even resorted to street demonstrations and protest letters as a means of highlighting those issues. 

KALPAVRISHK did detailed studies of the impacts due to the building of the Narmada projects as well as carried out investigations into the police firing that happened in Bharatpur bird reserve.  With its strong stands on many important environmental issues, the NGO has ensured that environmental concerns are echoed and steps taken to protect the environment. 

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eCoexist

by Soubhik Chakrabarti

eCoexist, a social enterprise by function, is a company that sells eco sensitive products to the general public. eSoexist sources these eco friendly products from various NGO’s which in turn gets benefited by the money generated by selling these eco friendly products thus raising the quality of life of the underprivileged.  

eCoexist mission is to promote eco-sensitive products through socially sensitive means. eCoexist believes in the loving coexistence of all living beings on this earth. They believe that human life can be fulfilling only if it respects, loves and protects nature.

Thus eCoexist creates harmony with the nature. eCoexist has three fundamental targets- social, environmental & financial. eCoexist wishes to revive the awareness of the beauty and power of Nature into everyday urban lives. They help people to recognize the deep impact their lifestyle choices have on their environment. eCoexist believes that harmony within oneself and with each other, leads to a harmony with the environment. They strive towards this harmony by processes of inclusion and sharing. 

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Liberal Youth Forum

by Soubhik Chakrabarti

Liberal Youth Forum is a movement consisting of individuals from all walks of society who collaborate together to bring about a positive change in the cultural, economic, political and environment spheres with an intent to have a freer India. The LYF team of India consists of distinguished individuals from the fields of law to media.

The Liberal Youth Forum in India believes that the youth of the country are the harbingers of justice in the society. The youth are the ones who can initiate reforms and bring about a change in the society. The Liberal Youth forum through its workshops and activities wishes to make the youth of the country more aware of their rights and duties and also bring a more liberal approach to their thinking, by which they are able to tolerate and appreciate other’s views and opinions which might run contrary to their beliefs.  

Liberal Youth Forum helps the youth to speak up against injustice, right from the college level and even finding solutions to the many problems of political, social, economic and cultural rigidities that plague the society. LYF even hires interns and conducts seminars so if you are interested, you might even join as an intern in the various positions available.

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12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

with inputs:Debarati Rakshit

Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is an annual summit organized by TERI, a research and policy organization in India in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals since 2001. The DSDS attracts worldwide thinkers and practitioners, coming from governments, business and industries, multilateral and bilateral organizations, research and academia and civil society.

The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is an international undertaking that provides a platform for knowledge exchange and debate on all aspects of sustainable development. The theme of DSDS 2012 is Protecting the Global Commons: 20 years post Rio. The debates at this DSDS will revolve around the commons and take stock of the situation since the Rio summit of 1992.

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Toxics Link

Toxics Link is an environmental NGO dedicated to bring toxics related information into the public domain, both relating to struggles and problems at the grassroots as well as global information to the local levels is based in Delhi with a nodal office in Chennai with a wide network of more than 3000 members. 

Toxics Link engages in on-the ground work especially in areas of municipal, hazardous and medical waste management and food safety among others. Working in networks, utilising community outreach and education, policy analysis, research, training and program development, it works at the state and central levels to help create solutions, which are driven by the needs of people. 

Toxics Link has a unique expertise in the areas of hazardous, medical and municipal wastes, as well as in specific issues such as the international waste trade, and the emerging issues of pesticides and POPs. 

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