Auto Anna and the Hot Seat

Auto Anna and the Hot Seat

Image credit: Project Team This project, ‘Auto Anna and the Hot Seat’, tackles Bangalore city’s urban heat challenge by creating a bilingual children’s storybook featuring an auto-rickshaw driver, explaining heat’s causes and consequences. Bangalore city’s...
Tubers and Sustainability Programme

Tubers and Sustainability Programme

Image credit: Project Team A project to curate and organise a programme for education and messaging around tuber crops & food biodiversity for Urban Bengaluru. This is a dedicated initiative to raise awareness and cultivate interest in indigenous tuber crops,...
Pop Culture for Environmental Awareness

Pop Culture for Environmental Awareness

Image credit: Project Team Pop Culture for Environmental Awareness is a joint project between Oorvani Foundation and St Joseph’s University (SJU) to enable young Bengalureans to learn about the city’s environment and sustainability issues.  This programme...
City Biodiversity Index – Bengaluru

City Biodiversity Index – Bengaluru

Image credit: Shutterstock The project aims to initiate mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation into climate informed, urban planning. The same will be done through development of the City Biodiversity Index and Undertaking capacity building of stakeholders in...
Applying a biodiversity lens for a sustainable city

Applying a biodiversity lens for a sustainable city

Image credit: Project Team In this project we plan to integrate data driven research along with citizen science initiatives to study the effects of urbanization and climate change. We will focus on birds and butterflies, with the aim of predicting the vulnerability of...