Where do the items in our homes come from, and what happens after we discard them? Let’s take a plastic bottle. Water, cola, buttermilk, and caffeinated drinks — all this comes in PET bottles. Indians collectively throw out 38,00,000 kg worth of PET bottles daily. Where does a plastic bottle come from? Oil, gas, and other fossil fuels are processed into polymers. Polymer pellets are shipped to factories where a multi-step process turns them into bottles. These bottles are shipped to other factories to be filled and labelled. These bottles go to warehouses, wholesalers, and then retailers. Crude oil from…
Read moreI’ve lived in Bangalore since 2005; whenever visiting friends want me to take them to Bangalore Palace, I chuckle and confess I haven’t been there myself. We’ve all experienced living in a city whose joys and woes we haven’t fully explored. Guided walks can help us connect more deeply with our cities when familiarity might have bred contempt or, simply, blindness. It was to help residents deepen their understanding of Panaji, Goa’s administrative capital, and to visualise possible futures for Panaji, that Transitions Research, in collaboration with the Travelling Dome, organised guided walks on Friday, 15th March and Sunday, 17th…
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