ClimAct Chronicles

Watching Lonely Planet while feeling a little lonely in my concern for the planet, my nightly Instagram doomscroll led me to an unexpected blessing: The Climate Initiative’s Climate Leadership Programme (CLP). After two months of online sessions, I found myself in Bengaluru for a five-day Climate Communications Bootcamp that changed how I think about climate action, communication, and community. Imagine an eco-friendly oasis tucked away in Bangalore’s traffic-and-concrete jun

Cafés are such wonderful places to have conversations and discover new things about local places. During my recent trip to Cambodia, the coffee connoisseur in me made really good friends with a local café owner. Somewhere between conversations about his life, what motivated him to open a café, and what my own work looks like, we ended up talking about this beautiful island called Koh Kapik. Initially, his recommendation was for tourism, but while doing my own research about t