XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

By Avinash Bhat, Ivy Maji, Kriti Chandra, Nidhi Dwivedy, Puja Shankar, Sugandh Group 5, Section A, PGDM (BM) 2019-21 Batch William Kamkwamba Back in 2001, a day in Masitala, (a rural hamlet in Malawi) ended when the sun set. But 14-year-old William Kamkwamba, would much rather study than sleep. There was just one constraint – How would he study in the absence of light? Kamkwanba, who had dropped out of school then, saw picture of a windmill and set about making one from scrap PVC pipes, rusty bicycle and car parts and blue gum trees. His windmill began powering lights in his room. Today, Kamkwamba is a senior in high school at the African Leadership Academy, Johannesburg. His windmills, still functioning have grown in numbers and now provide clean water for the village, micro-irrigation in the fields, mobile phone services and internet. Kids from his village now aim for education. They no longer have to study under the sooty flame of kerosene lamps. Kamkwamba...

By Avinash Bhat, Ivy Maji, Kriti Chandra, Nidhi Dwivedy, Puja Shankar, Sugandh Group 5, Section A, PGDM (BM) 2019-21 Batch Symptom – The Tip of the Iceberg: We enjoy the fact that the world around us is bright and beautiful with colours. We have some social adjectives associating colours with happiness – the more vivid and bold they are – more of joy they represent. Imagine what would happen if, suddenly all the colours vanish. We wake up to find that the whole world has turned black & white. For many millions – both humans and marine organisms – precisely, this has been happening as a result of Climate Change. The colourful corals we admire are bleaching away into grey. Coral bleaching is just one of the symptoms – albeit the most visible one – which shows that few have exploited the marine resources to their limit and it is time to think long term.   (D’Angelo, 2016) But the fading colours of the corals are just the tip of the iceberg. Corals are one...