Here’s how you live more sustainably | Karthik Ganesan, CEEW

[00:01:42] CEEW: What does it do and Karthik’s role 

[00:03:46] AQI: The factors that contribute to poor AQI in India

[00:14:48] CEEW Approach to AQI: How do they address the issue?

[00:23:27] Other Organizations like CEEW: Do they exist and what do they do?

[00:29:08] Higher Quality of Life: Why does it mean higher energy consumption?

[00:33:22] Water: CEEW’s research on water and their insights

[00:39:38] The AQI Problem: Can it be solved?

[00:43:26] Anxiety and Overwhelm about the Environment:How do Karthik and his team manage it?

[00:50:15] The Environmental Impact of Waste: Innovation and engineering solutions to manage waste

[00:57:22] Adopting a Sustainable Lifestyle: The changes we can make 

[01:05:22] Karthik’s Career Journey: How did he start working at CEEW?

[01:08:38] A Career in Sustainability: The options available and what people can do

[01:17:45] Academic Affairs Secretary at IITM: The role and what it taught Karthik

[00:01:16] IIT Madras

[00:23:28] The Energy and Resources Institute [TERI] is another institute that works in the same space as CEEW.

[00:24:19] CSTEP is another institution that also works in the climate change and energy sector

[00:24:51] The World Resources Institute and The Rocky Mountain Institute are international organizations which have set up branches in India.

[00:23:33] Dr. R.K. Pachauri was the head of TERI and used to be the head of IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]. 

[00:26:43] Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew prioritised certain things which have lead to Singapore becoming the cleanest country

[00:28:32] Prof. M S Ananth was the director of IIT Madras when Amrut and Karthik were students there.

[00:52:08] Bill Gates had thought of reinventing the toilet but the project did not take off.

[00:58:18] Karthik talks about Mahatma Gandhi’s Talisman which talks about measuring the impact on your actions on the poorest man.  

[01:12:30] Likky from Mandark and Hemanth of Julia and Vinay in Ceasar are IIT alumni working in the energy space

[01:21:16] Vinay from Uprocks told Karthik he should be doing an MBA

[01:05:25] Karthik worked for a company called Sabre Holdings after graduating from IITM

[01:03:47] Karthik mentions an app called MYNZO that helps to track emissions and the energy impact of people.

[01:19:36] Infosys and Cognizant were two of the big IT companies that most IIT Graduates wanted to join

[01:19:50] Karthik also mentions Lehmann Brothers, Nomura and Deutsche Bank as some of the companies that IITM graduates joined

[00:49:25] Amrut mentions the example of a fisherman mentioned in the book Thinking in Systems by Donella H Meadows

[00:50:54] The Science Gallery in Bengaluru released a documentary called Down the Drain on the sewage system.

[00:17:46] CEEW ran a survey across India and created a report called How Urban India Moves to understand people’s mobility choices across Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to get a perspective of what people want or are lacking.