Ashwin, Author at Ashwidea

Published On - June 5, 2019

Ashwin Featured, green office, sustainabilityTags: go green, reduce waste, sustainability, world environment day

5 ways to go green

Today is world environment day. It gives us an opportunity to take a stock of what we can do make our planet survive and thrive. Here is our 5 ways you can go green. 1.Packaging We are talking about shiny thing which wraps things we buy, the containers which store food we order and several [&h...

Published On - April 1, 2019

Ashwin Featured

What are you voting for ? MP or party

Starting with acknowledging that I have borrowed the title from Citizen Matters article. While I am not going to rephrase the article here. Do read its quite insightful. Well the the great game show is unfolding in front of us. Our status updates will be about trading news ( real and fake), propag...

Published On - February 25, 2019

Ashwin Featured

Volunteering, Milennials et al

One of the recent surveys spoke about the fact that over 70 % of millennials give time and money to causes they support.While it was a US survey , I am sure those numbers won’t be too different in India. During my millennial days ( when i was a decade younger) I knocked several doors […...

Published On - February 7, 2019

Ashwin green office, recycled, sustainability

Folder from Poop

What’s big deal with folder. Well its great to keep documents. Brochures you get during a conference. Also if you feel like having fun , put some paper clips over it and get creative. The best part is you can keep using it till it tears , so has a very high reusable element. What […]...

Published On - February 4, 2019

Ashwin health

9.6 Million cancer deaths a year

Cancer. Yup it has captured attention of Indians . It has also been subject of many true fake whatsapp messages. Fortunately it is not 1971 when the Iconic Hindi movie Anand about Cancer patient who rises above his disease and spreads happiness . In that Anand suffered and died of it .I will bet you...

Published On - January 29, 2019

Ashwin health, sustainabilityTags: csr, environment, sustainability, waste

Smiles,Garbage et al

Smiles , more smiles which greets me. I am in main X road at Naubad in Bidar. It is 700kms from Bangalore , takes a 14 hr train journey from my luru. (train stops almost an hour at Vikarabad to change direction of engine, while you can enjoy hot idli and wada). It is about 315 […]...

Published On - January 24, 2019

Ashwin green office, recycled, sustainability, weddingTags: wedding

weddings, waste & recycling

Weddings in our country can be exercises in excess (definition of excess may change in light of high profile weddings recently). While everyone wants to celebrate their weddings in their own way ( and no qualms about it , its your money or your parents money). However the materials used for decorati...

Published On - January 9, 2019

Ashwin recycled, sustainability

Small is beautiful and recycled

We have been providing conferences and offices with recycled, sustainable stationary over the past year. While these are typically orders of range of multiples of 100s. In these cases we customize the notebooks, pencils etc with company logo . Recently we managed to complete order for custom noteboo...

Published On - December 28, 2018

Ashwin education, green office, recycled

2018:Waste,Recycled,Running,Education

2018 is/was? year 1 for us at Ashwidea. Today being one of the last few days of 2018 , its good time to recap on how the year has been. I don’t have star rating system unlike Rajeev masand or anupama chopra , but will try giving you a snapshot of how it went. Waste […]...

Published On - December 27, 2018

Ashwin green office, recycled, sustainability

Brown or White

You may have observed that notebooks in our Green office portfolio are brown shade unlike the notebooks you usually encounter. The brown colour is natural colour of recycled paper from which these notebooks are made. The white paper which you use regularly, takes many cycles of bleaching,polishing t...

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