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...
Sustainable urban development in the era of climate change

Sustainable urban development in the era of climate change

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...
Flourishing Bengaluru in the era of Climate Change

Flourishing Bengaluru in the era of Climate Change

Image credit: The Messenger.space and Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom Like many major cities, Bengaluru faces a challenging mix of aspiration, opportunity, disruption, and uncertainty. In response, we believe that three relevant dimensions to the...
A Yeshwanthpur Ward-level Heatwave Guide

A Yeshwanthpur Ward-level Heatwave Guide

Image credit: Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom This project aims to develop a heatwave guide for the Marappana Palya ward in North Bengaluru in a grounded and collaborative manner with ward-level representatives, interest groups and communities to...