deep-dive discussions with inspiring sustainable development problem-solvers
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Spiritual Ecology, Climate Justice & Systems Change with Abhayraj Naik
How is the climate crisis a crisis of “perception”, and what role does spirituality play in addressing this? How can we live prefiguratively in the climate future we might want, right now? Why, and how, should climate action be decentralized for effective systems change? How can we transcend boundaries and choose our work in the field? In discussion with Abhayraj Naik, a transdisciplinary practitioner working across climate justice, activism, education, systems change and spiritual ecology.
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Reparative Water Governance with Neha Mungekar
Neha Mungekar (LinkedIn →) is a sustainability researcher at IHE Delft working on water systems governance and their transitions to sustainability. We discuss transition management as a way to frame complex sustainability problems, but also its limits when it is applied too technocratically or without context. We also talk about her critique of importing transition ideas into post-colonial settings without adaptation, and her reparative framework centered on improvisation, proximity, restorative justice, and context-specific change. The conversation closes with her work in Bangalore on citizen science and water bodies, where we focus on participation, broader indicators of lake health, and how…
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Circular Packaging Systems with Anjali Patil
Anjali Patil is a climate entrepreneur working on reducing packaging waste in the FMCG sector. Anjali shares her journey in sustainability, emphasizing the importance of innovation and explaining how circularity has to go beyond recycling and composting. We discuss her company’s approach to dematerializing plastic packaging through a refillable dispenser that is a ‘circular packaging system’. She shares her opinions on what it takes to make circularity work in practice, in terms of policy, standards, collaboration and more.