On a mission to plant a million trees, social entrepreneur Chaitsi Ahuja is making waves with her sustainability lifestyle store ‘Brown Living’, India's first plastic-free and chemical-free online marketplace. Aimed at enabling Indians to make a switch to sustainable living, Brown Living has also created jobs for over 200 artisans and 150 people from rural tribes in India so far. Vinay talks to the green warrior on her journey so far.
[2:48s] ‘On a mission to plant a million trees’
[4:09s] From retail marketing to social entrepreneurship
[11:50s] Genesis of ‘Brown Living’
[31:11s] Sustainability in a pandemic
[35:46s] ‘I’m in the business of changing behaviour’
[47:15s] RWL: Chaitsi’s recommendations for you to READ ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari; WATCH documentaries ‘What the Health’, ‘Toxic Beauty’, ‘Down to Earth’.
More curated recommendations on sustainable living at https://brownliving.in/blogs/changemakers
Also do check out https://www.grow-trees.com/ that’s at the core of Chaitsi’s ‘mission to plant a million trees’
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