Are today’s children less healthy than before?

As a society, we like to believe that each generation will be better off than the last. That optimism keeps us moving forward. But if we pause for a moment, do a few things feel less reassuring than we’d like them to be?

Take the rise in allergies among children. Is it simply better diagnosis and greater awareness, or are kids genuinely being exposed to more irritants than ever before? And what about mental health? When millennials say “in our time,” is it nostalgia speaking or are today’s children facing pressures that are fundamentally different? Is this generation becoming softer, or are they navigating a world that’s objectively more complex?

These questions stayed with us.Who better to turn to than Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh. Dr Santosh is a pediatrician and a social activist who has taken up the cause of authenticity and transparency in child care extremely strongly. The host team is led by Sakshi Verma, a media veteran and a concerned parent, and joined by Kinshuk Mishra, cofounder, awenest and a father of a new born.

Today Sakshi and I meet Falguni, the founder of OliveNutrition24 who breaks down this complicated and emotional topic of feeding kids and babies. What is the right way to introduce your baby to new food? Screen time during eating, yay or nay? How does our food behaviour impact your child? (Do you now need to fake-like karela?) All this and a lot more - in sharp 30 min covering some extremely interesting and relevant questions.

In this episode, Tania and Kinshuk meet Swapnil Shrivastav. He is the founder and CEO of Uravu labs, a company working on extracting water from air.

Water from thin air - wouldn't that be something? Swapnil explains in meticulous detail the technology, its benefits and applications.

What is the toughest thing to recycle? MLP or Multi-layered plastic. Who is recycling it today in India - no one that we knew of. It is largely getting burnt for energy recovery - producing harmful fumes and what not. Only may be 2-3% of the entire volume is potentially going for pyrolysis.

Anish Malpani and his team at Ashaya are recycling what no one recycles - Multi layered plastic (those tetra pack milk bottles and chips packets). And to demonstrate use case of the recycled plastic, they made the coolest products - sunglasses - that don't break.

Today the Sustainably Yours team members, Tania and Kinshuk, meet Anish to understand all about Ashaya - and what he is trying to achieve. It is a very interesting story - told in an extremely engaging manner. Don't miss it.

Today the Green Shoots team understands how to live zero-waste. We meet Soumya, a sustainability advocate and practitioner. She is extremely popular on Instagram as
greenfeetcleanfeet
There are several reels and posts by her on how to live sustainably and you must check them out for recipes and hacks.

In today's episode, you can learn the following:
- How to start your waste-free life?
- What are the DIY solutions to go zero-waste?
- How can you inspire others to live waste free?
- How can you show kids the meaning of sustainability?
- and a lot more..
with Kinshuk Mishra

For any questions or feedback, reach out to us at GreenShootsEarth@gmail.com

If you are interested in more content around the Sustainability Space along with the podcast, you must visit awenest.in

Today the Green Shoots team dives into the management of wet waste. The fruit peels and the food leftovers that we throw away are potentially massive sources of energy and can enrich our soil too!
Learn how Rahul Khera, through his brainchild Balancing Bits is solving the large problem of wet waste recycling. This episode is the first in a 2 part series and focuses solely on the challenges, opportunities, and the surprisingly positive by-products of wet waste.
What will you learn in this episode?
- How is waste from an Indian household different from any other waste in the world?
- How do you identify wet waste from dry waste?
- Challenges with wet waste recycling
- The story of Balancing Bits & its founder, Rahul Khera
- and a lot more..
with Tania Saha and Kinshuk Mishra

For any questions or feedback, reach out to us at GreenShootsEarth@gmail.com

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Each one of us is a consumer – and what we consume defines us. Our choices as consumers decide the fate of this planet and its inhabitants. It also impacts our health and the kind of values we will embed in our children. We must choose wisely.

A brand of cookies that we discovered is trying to be sustainable at various levels. Vaibhav Dugar, linkedin.com/in/vaibhavdugar co-creator of Kivu kivu.in, explains to us why he started a brand of vegan cookies that is solar-baked, made in drought-hit areas of Maharashtra, using Indian ingredients.

In this episode, you can learn about the following:

• Motivations & joys of starting a sustainable brand
• Economics of the process
• What can individuals like us do more to live sustainably?

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Today, the Green Shoots team dives into the Indian plastic story. We start by giving you a sense of the plastic waste landscape, and then meet Richa Malik, the founder of TheHappyTurtle.in. https://www.thehappyturtle.in/

Richa has made it her life's mission to make people & organizations aware of the plastic menace and is generous enough to distill her years of experience within 2 podcast episodes. Here is her linkedin profile to know more about her linkedin.com/in/richa-malik

In this episode, you will learn about green washing, zero-waste living and how can you and I live a more sustainable life.

The profiles of the Green Shoots team members in this interview are mentioned below:
linkedin.com/in/tania-saha-0a354016
linkedin.com/in/kinshuk-mishra-46abbb4

Please keep writing to us at GreenShoots.Pehlay@gmail.com

If you are interested in more content around the Sustainability Space along with the podcast, you must visit awenest.in