Mission Shunya

Girish Shivakumar

Mission Shunya (Shunya=Zero) is all about the transition to a zero carbon economy. The podcast features conversations related to clean-tech and sustainability. A new podcast episode is released every fortnight. Experts from around the world are featured along with people whose businesses and actions are having a positive impact and aims to inspire every individual take action to do their bit for the planet. Renewable energy, electric vehicles, sustainable development, climate change, circular economy are just a few of the topics that will be covered. Logo - H. Neve | Pics Credit - TerreGeneration | Prema | Unsplash | Guests | Theme Music - C. Henry

Apr 27, 2020

Impact of COVID-19 on Small Scale Solar Rooftop Market

In recent months COVID-19 has definitely had an impact on the global economy. This is the first episode of the series where the discussions will be around how COVID-19 will impact the global transition to the z...

55 mins

Apr 13, 2020

Water Conservation: How technology enables us to get better at it?

The theme of this episode is water conservation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is one of the focus areas as we transition to a zero carbon economy & access to clean water is a key SDG.Water purificat...

49 mins

Mar 30, 2020

Creating an urban forest – the story of ‘Say Trees’

What made a software engineer get so passionate about planting trees on weekends? How did he then scale it up to create urban forests and more such projects? Listen to Kapil Sharma, founder of Say Trees share h...

29 mins

Mar 16, 2020

Litter-free Lalbagh - featuring Saahas

Lalbagh is a botanical garden in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The two flower shows during the year see a footfall of around 600k each. In the last year the waste generation during the event was reduced to half...

28 mins

Mar 02, 2020

Energy storage thought leadership featuring Dr Rahul Walawalkar

Dr Rahul Walawalkar is an industry veteran and has been at the forefront of the energy technology transition and has a particular affinity towards energy storage. On this 25th episode of Mission Shunya podcast...

34 mins

Feb 17, 2020

Inspirational heroes, motivational stories and how it helps us to move forward: A special tribute

Episode 24 is a tribute to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant and all the people like him, heroes who inspire us every day. On this episode Girish Shivakumar brings to you guest stories from the podcast who...

22 mins

Feb 03, 2020

Sustainable Clothing: Turning plastic into wearable fabric

Did you know manufacturing a cotton t-shirt consumes around 2700L of water in the process? On this episode, Kathir, co-founder of ecohike, a sustainable clothing company from India joins Girish Shivakumar to...

27 mins

Jan 20, 2020

Waste Management - A success story from Bengaluru

On this week's episode Padmashree Balaram joins Girish Shivakumar to share the success story of building a waste to energy plant right in the heart of Bengaluru city in India. You can contact Padmashree at wast...

31 mins

Jan 06, 2020

2010s in review and the predictions for the decade ahead

The first episode of the new year and the new decade is here! Girish Shivakumar reviews the decade gone by and predicts the stories and trends that will shape the decade ahead. The transition to a zero carbon...

15 mins

Dec 23, 2019

Amazon Rainforest Wildfires: How does it affect us?

On this episode Tony Juniper, a campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and leading British environmentalist joins Girish Shivakumar to talk about the importance of tropical rainforests and the impact of ama...