Today Sakshi and I meet Falguni, the founder of OliveNutrition24 who breaks down this complicated and emotional topic of feeding kids and babies. What is the right way to introduce your baby to new food? Screen time during eating, yay or nay? How does our food behaviour impact your child? (Do you now need to fake-like karela?) All this and a lot more - in sharp 30 min covering some extremely interesting and relevant questions.

Today the Green Shoots team meets Srini and Shubhashree, the authors of (Im)perfectly Zero Waste. They have also co-authored the book - The Everyday Eco-Warrior.

Learn all about #zerowaste #zerowasteliving #sustainableliving in this episode. Specifically, learn about the following:

• The sustainability triggers of the authors
• How to start living a sustainable life
• The concept of zero-waste and its societal importance
• How individual action can lead to a circular economy and large-scale impact.

Shubhashree is also the illustrator behind The Hungry Palette and the founder of Slowing Down Circle. She is also one-third of The Yada Yada Collective, which is a platform that was started to demystify pricing for freelancing artists and designers in India.

Srini is a long-distance runner, plogger, and children’s books translator. He is an alumnus of Teach for India and continues to work on nonprofit projects in India and other countries.

The Green Shoots team is represented by Tania Saha, Atul Gupta, and Kinshuk Mishra
Mail us at GreenShootsEarth@gmail.com for any additional questions.

Today, Sakshi and Kinshuk meet Kunal Kanwar, who is an ICC LEVEL 2 Cricket coach! That is a BIG DEAL guys!
Kunal has over a decade of experience in sports education and is the founder and director of TUG sports, a premier sports coaching academy based in Noida.

We discuss many things - including, when should parents decide to go with professional coaching, why do kids drop out of sports, how should one see the utility of sports in a child's life - and many more!

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Kinshuk and Sakshi kick off the show with Nidhi Sudhan, a responsible tech & media advocate. Nidhi cofounded Citizen Digital Foundation in 2021 to foster Information Literacy and Responsible Innovation.

Screentime for kids is something that every parent universally worries about - how much, from what age, what type? Answers to all these questions are provided by Nidhi in today's episode! A must-listen for every parent!

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Resources for parents and children recommended by our guest Nidhi Sudhan:

Guidelines On Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour And Sleep For Children Under 5 Years Of Age - WHO

https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/311664/9789241550536-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

The Anxious Generation (book by Jonathan Haidt):

https://www.anxiousgeneration.com

The Sapien Labs ‘Age of First Smartphone Use and MHQ’ study:
https://sapienlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Sapien-Labs-Age-of-First-Smartphone-and-Mental-Wellbeing-Outcomes.pdf

Remove explicit images online

https://takeitdown.ncmec.org

Know the nutrition level of popular social apps

https://technutrition.org

Common Sense Media (most recommended globally for parents)

https://www.commonsensemedia.org

Children and Screens

https://www.childrenandscreens.com

CDF toolkits and resources for parents and students (several resources for parents’ various requirements)

https://citizendigitalfoundation.org/publications/

Understanding Sextortion: No escape room – NCMEC

https://noescaperoom.org

Toolkit to fight sextortion by Social Media Matters - India

https://www.socialmediamatters.in/online-safety-hub/toolkit-against-sextortion

Google Interland - Game for children to become smarter online

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland/

How to be a good digital parent toolkit & videos

https://www.fosi.org/how-to-be-good-digital-parent#toolkit-form

Making news and reading fun for children (paid)

https://www.newsahoot.com

On all CDF paid content, use code CDFGTS to get 15% off.

In this episode, Tania and Kinshuk meet Swapnil Shrivastav. He is the founder and CEO of Uravu labs, a company working on extracting water from air.

Water from thin air - wouldn't that be something? Swapnil explains in meticulous detail the technology, its benefits and applications.

Today the Sustainably Yours team speaks to Nikit on the usage of satellite data for making the world a sustainable place.
Nikit is the founder of Tathya.Earth - a start up focusing on the real time monitoring of global supply chain and its impact on the environment.

What will you learn from this episode?

How is satellite data important and what are the potential applications?
How is Tathya.Earth using the data to make accurate observations?
What more is happening in the satellite data space in India?
.. and a lot more!

What is the toughest thing to recycle? MLP or Multi-layered plastic. Who is recycling it today in India - no one that we knew of. It is largely getting burnt for energy recovery - producing harmful fumes and what not. Only may be 2-3% of the entire volume is potentially going for pyrolysis.

Anish Malpani and his team at Ashaya are recycling what no one recycles - Multi layered plastic (those tetra pack milk bottles and chips packets). And to demonstrate use case of the recycled plastic, they made the coolest products - sunglasses - that don't break.

Today the Sustainably Yours team members, Tania and Kinshuk, meet Anish to understand all about Ashaya - and what he is trying to achieve. It is a very interesting story - told in an extremely engaging manner. Don't miss it.

Today the Green Shoots team understands how to live zero-waste. We meet Soumya, a sustainability advocate and practitioner. She is extremely popular on Instagram as
greenfeetcleanfeet
There are several reels and posts by her on how to live sustainably and you must check them out for recipes and hacks.

In today's episode, you can learn the following:
- How to start your waste-free life?
- What are the DIY solutions to go zero-waste?
- How can you inspire others to live waste free?
- How can you show kids the meaning of sustainability?
- and a lot more..
with Kinshuk Mishra

For any questions or feedback, reach out to us at GreenShootsEarth@gmail.com

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