Sustainable Tech

Sustainability is the next desirable state of accomplishment on which technology has fixed its eyes on. Sustainability ensures a better carbon footprint and helps in leaving a better legacy for our future generations.

Frugal innovations and disruptive technologies have enjoyed their share of limelight for a significant chunk of time. Sustainable solutions are the need of the hour. People from all over the world are burning the candle at both ends to develop sustainable and ecologically friendly solutions for all our needs, desires, and wants.

Right from clothing to the most sophisticated form of innovations, sustainability is what is being aimed at. Amazon has started a fund called the Climate pledge fund, which aims at funding sustainable start-ups from all over the world. As quoted on ZDNet, Amazon founder and CEO said that “Companies from around the world of all sizes and stages will be considered, from pre-product startups to well-established enterprises. Each prospective investment will be judged on its potential to accelerate the path to zero carbon and help protect the planet for future generations.” This fund is valued at an impressive number of 2 billion dollars.

Three alumni from IIT Bombay, Gunvant Nehete, Sharayu Kulkarni, and Vikash Jha have developed a special cooler called Subjee cooler under their company Rukart technologies to help farmers keep their produce fresh for a longer duration of time. As quoted in Krishi Jagran, one of the founders of Rukart technologies said that “We used to visit villages as a part of our course. We realized that the farmers weren’t earning all that much from the sales of their produce, and we wanted to find a solution to that problem”

As we have already witnessed that the fate of our planet is actually unknown. The onset of unprecedented problems and calamities cannot be foreseen. In light of these recent developments, it is being considered that accessibility, connectivity, and accountability are the three central tenets of sustainable development. These three tenets were given and elucidated by Grethel Aguilar (acting director (IUCN), as quoted by the business mirror.

Technology has a very imminent role to play when it comes to the development and application of sustainable tech.