Mafia SusTalks # 23 - 'Building a Citizens Collective To Conserve Water' : w/ Hariharan Chandrashekar

Agenda :

• 25 minutes : An introduction by Hariharan Chandrashekar
• 15 minutes : Q&A with Mr. Chandrashekar led by Mafioso & SusMafia Director Ganesh Shankar
• 20 minutes : Open SusMafia Community Q&A

About Mr. Chandrashekar:

Dr. Hariharan Chandrashekar is an Indian ecological economist, mentor for green entrepreneurship, and enabler of industry directions on sustainability and resilience, particularly for buildings, and the built environment.

Hariharan presides today over activities of the globally pioneering citizen action initiative, WOW Action Forum and the several thrust areas of public interface that WOW has devised. He mentors a host of green leadership Programmes for Indian industry and academia under SAANSS and the Foundation Green umbrella.

He is also guiding a series of public demo projects for inspiring water and energy conservation among lay Water-users with schools, places of worship and other public buildings executed for water harvesting which will inspire the local community to adopt such practices in their homes.

Over three decades he has led many enterprise initiatives to promote and mainstream sustainability businesses, while in recent years at the AltTech Foundation that he steers, the mission is clearly to accelerate sustainability directions across the board in industry, residential and commercial sectors of urban India.