Easy 4 steps to start your first project on Climate Action | Ep. #40

<p>If given a choice would you be the person with amazing ideas? OR would you like to be the person bringing amazing ideas to life?</p> <p>Hello &amp; welcome to <a href="https://www.circularbusinesspodcastindia.com/podcast">Circular Business Podcast</a>, a series where we look into circular economy from the Indian context. I’m your host &amp; dost Sreepriya Sridharan and today we will talk about taking action &amp; elaborate on the 4 easy steps to get started with your 1st sustainability project.</p> <p>In today's times participating in climate strikes without knowing &amp; understanding its agenda can become overwhelming. However that shouldn’t stop anyone from working on climate action.</p> <p>If you are reading this right now, my intuition tells me that you already have an amazing idea waiting to spread its wings.</p> <p>Therefore I want to help you make that process faster, as I’m gonna share with you 4 steps that I followed to successfully execute my 1st project on climate action.</p> <p>Step 1 : Identify the problem</p> <p>No matter what stage of life you are in, you very well know that one PROBLEM which always makes you want to speak up and challenge the status quo.</p> <p>3 years ago I was working with a multi-national engine manufacturing company and one Friday I noticed that my colleague urgently needed a sanitary pad while I was in the washroom.</p> <p>Hey I just got my chums..could you pls get me a pad (low voice).</p> <p>Now the thing is, I switched to menstrual cups few years ago, so those days of extra pads in my bag are long gone. But somehow I was able to reach out to office supplies and help out my colleague at that time.</p> <p>But wait a minute, I don't know if you noticed when she used the code word "chums" in a women's washroom! It's 2021 ladies, why do we still hesitate to call periods---&gt; PERIODS?</p> <p>She was even hesitant to say the word pad out loud.</p> <p>So as soon as my colleague got out I asked her the same question, <em>to which she said- Maybe because I've been trained to h