Mission Shunya
Mission Shunya (Shunya=Zero) is all about the transition to a zero carbon economy. The podcast features conversations related to clean-tech and sustainability. A new podcast episode is released every fortnight. Experts from around the world are featured along with people whose businesses and actions are having a positive impact and aims to inspire every individual take action to do their bit for the planet. Renewable energy, electric vehicles, sustainable development, climate change, circular economy are just a few of the topics that will be covered.
Logo - H. Neve | Pics Credit - TerreGeneration | Prema | Unsplash | Guests | Theme Music - C. Henry
Logo - H. Neve | Pics Credit - TerreGeneration | Prema | Unsplash | Guests | Theme Music - C. Henry
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 114
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
34: Renewable Energy as a Service for Industries
Renewable Energy (RE) procurement has moved on from being a corporate goal driven procurement for industries to cost-economics driven decision. How are the RE developers evolving to provide value to…
00:28:05 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
33: Regenerative Thinking - Going beyond Sustainability
The most common definition of Sustainability is to have low / zero impact which is simply not enough for civilization to course correct. Regenerative, on the other hand means to be of positive impact…
00:33:05 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
32: Absolute Zero: How will UK achieve net-zero emissions?
When UK announced its intent to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, it became the first major country to make the net zero commitment. On this episode, we will listen to the work done by UK Fires, a …
00:34:44 |
Mon 08 Jun 2020
31: Improved air quality in India during COVID-19 lockdown and how to sustain the clean air movement
So, during this lockdown, did you breathe some fresh air? If you live close to a river, maybe you saw a cleaner version of it. Or you may have also spotted some distant object, maybe even a mountain.…
00:49:39 |
Mon 25 May 2020
30: Sustaining the cleantech momentum in the post-COVID-19 era
The growth story of the global cleantech movement over the last few years has been phenomenal. But, COVID-19 has definitely thrown in a lot of uncertainties.
Will it push the development back by a fe…
01:34:56 |
Mon 11 May 2020
29: Impact of COVID-19 on Small Scale Solar Rooftop Market
In recent months COVID-19 has definitely had an impact on the global economy. This is the first episode of the series where the discussions will be around how COVID-19 will impact the global transiti…
00:54:54 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
28: Water Conservation: How technology enables us to get better at it?
The theme of this episode is water conservation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is one of the focus areas as we transition to a zero carbon economy & access to clean water is a key SDG.
Wat…
00:49:01 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
27: Creating an urban forest – the story of ‘Say Trees’
What made a software engineer get so passionate about planting trees on weekends? How did he then scale it up to create urban forests and more such projects? Listen to Kapil Sharma, founder of Say Tr…
00:29:28 |
Mon 30 Mar 2020
26: Litter-free Lalbagh - featuring Saahas
Lalbagh is a botanical garden in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The two flower shows during the year see a footfall of around 600k each. In the last year the waste generation during the event was redu…
00:27:41 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
25: Energy storage thought leadership featuring Dr Rahul Walawalkar
Dr Rahul Walawalkar is an industry veteran and has been at the forefront of the energy technology transition and has a particular affinity towards energy storage. On this 25th episode of Mission Shun…
00:33:54 |
Mon 02 Mar 2020
24: Inspirational heroes, motivational stories and how it helps us to move forward: A special tribute
Episode 24 is a tribute to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant and all the people like him, heroes who inspire us every day. On this episode Girish Shivakumar brings to you guest stories from the …
00:22:20 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
23: Sustainable Clothing: Turning plastic into wearable fabric
Did you know manufacturing a cotton t-shirt consumes around 2700L of water in the process?
On this episode, Kathir, co-founder of ecohike, a sustainable clothing company from India joins Girish Shiv…
00:27:12 |
Mon 03 Feb 2020
22: Waste Management - A success story from Bengaluru
On this week's episode Padmashree Balaram joins Girish Shivakumar to share the success story of building a waste to energy plant right in the heart of Bengaluru city in India. You can contact Padmash…
00:30:33 |
Mon 20 Jan 2020
21: 2010s in review and the predictions for the decade ahead
The first episode of the new year and the new decade is here!
Girish Shivakumar reviews the decade gone by and predicts the stories and trends that will shape the decade ahead. The transition to a ze…
00:14:33 |
Mon 06 Jan 2020
20: Amazon Rainforest Wildfires: How does it affect us?
On this episode Tony Juniper, a campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and leading British environmentalist joins Girish Shivakumar to talk about the importance of tropical rainforests and the im…
00:31:11 |
Mon 23 Dec 2019
19: The Evolution of Pay-As-You-Go Solar
Pay-As-You-Go Solar has revolutionised the way people get access to electricity in Africa. The emergence of new technology coupled with declining system costs has enabled the low income families in t…
00:29:39 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
18: What it takes to live an eco-friendly lifestyle?
Neel Mathews shares his passionate story of building a house that is water and energy positive and also how he helps others achieve the same on this episode with Girish Shivakumar.
More about Neel’s …
00:24:44 |
Mon 25 Nov 2019
17: Clean air as a service to control indoor air pollution
The Indian capital of Delhi and most of the regions in North India continue to choke post the monsoon season and it has peaked after Diwali. The pollutants are at dangerous levels outdoors but indoor…
00:26:48 |
Mon 04 Nov 2019
16: Air pollution in megacities: A case study of Delhi ft. Karthik Ganesan, CEEW
Globally air pollution accounts for 7 million annual deaths according to the WHO. In India alone, air pollution causes over a million deaths annually. Air pollution peaks during the post monsoon mont…
01:02:25 |
Mon 21 Oct 2019
15: Meet the new Meat : Part 2
In recent months, the lawmakers in the US have been tough on the meat alternatives industry especially in the way how products are labelled and marketed. So how are US start-ups bracing up for a face…
00:24:01 |
Mon 07 Oct 2019
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