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At 76, Pradip Burman, the zestful CEO of Mobius Foundation, emits a contagious enthusiasm when talking about sustainability. The environment promoter, better known as the great-grandson of Dabur founder Dr S.K Burman, contributes to promoting sustainability. He also denied obeying today’s environment’s convenience that adversely impacts climate change.
Conventional Wisdom and Initiatives
Pradip Burman is a mechanical
engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has always
been interested in giving back to society and the environment. He has been
majorly interested in sustainable work from his college days, where he designed
sonic aid that is helpful to visually challenged people and finds the hurdles
by using ultrasonic wave signals.
Being
the chairman of Dabur has encouraged him to choose natural ingredients to
resolve health problems like arthritis with Ayurveda medicine. He has also
launched the veterinary wing for animals’ health care to protect abandoned or
hurt animals.
Additionally,
he is part of the CSR initiative of Dabur, where he launched SUNDESH, a
sustainable development society that has been working for the past 25 years in
villages to enhance the natural communities sustainably.
Mobius Foundation
Focuses on Changing the Sustainability Dynamics
Mobius Foundation was founded in 2015 by Pradip Burman to focus
on sustainable practices and its usefulness in today’s world. The foundation is
named after the German Mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius. The special
present symbolizes balance and union. Mobius Foundation aims to enhance the
practice of reduce, reuse, and recycle that will help future generations lead a
good life. Other focus areas include developing education, renewable energy,
curbing pollution and population stabilization.
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Green School - A School
Of Dream
Mr
Burman has founded The World
Environment School in Coorg to promote
sustainable development in younger generations. The curriculum will go beyond
the books and classroom education and focus on hands-on learning collaborating
with the environment. In the beauty of Coorg’s place, the school will nurture
the mind of the students to grow up as future green leaders.
This
school is the world’s first environment school not only in India but also in
South Asia. The school has the aim to nurture the behaviors of citizens towards
sustainability.
Sustainability Crusader
Pradip
Burman
knows it is high time to increase sustainability awareness among people who
excessively use natural resources and harm the planet. This can be achieved
through excessive awareness and inner realization. Therefore he has started
setting up camps under these organizations across India to spread awareness
among ordinary people.
Pradip Burman is a prolific business leader, environmentalist and advocate of sustainability. He is the grandson of Dr S. K Burman, the founder of Mobius Foundation, a non-profit organization and Chairman of ayurvedic company, Dabur. Born in a family of innovators and philanthropists, Pradip Burman has the same leadership qualities that have made him work for social causes.
He established Mobius Foundation in 2015 with the sole purpose of environment conservation.
Even at 79, Pradip Burman,
the zestful environmental crusader is talking about sustainability to promote
climate justice & humanity on the Earth. He refuses to rest to the
convenience and comfort in the modern world because it adds pressure to nature
for producing natural resources that cause climate change.
An Advocate of Sustainability
Burman believes that sustainability is the answer
for continued survival and a must step for saving the planet.
Due to the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources by human beings, the world today is standing on the brink of destruction. The human race has reached the peak of progress and development is happening in a very unsustainable manner.
Mobius Foundation: The Change for Sustainability & Future Development
Mobius Foundation, NGO for Environment Protection .With the vision of sustainable development and environmental justice, Pradip Burman paved his way to found Mobius Foundation. He borrowed the name from 18th-century German mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius. The foundation aimed to spread the principle ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ to help generations to come and live as we are living today.
He believes that it can be achieved by focusing on education, population stabilisation and renewable energy development through various ventures & initiatives.Mobius Foundation is best Ngo in Delhi.
World Environment School
While understanding the need, he established a sustainable education school in Coorg with the name, the World Environment School. It aims to introduce a holistic understanding of sustainable living and environmental welfare.
The school focuses on a curriculum that surpasses the boundaries of classrooms and books with hands-on activities and learning in an open environment. It would not just help the students to grow but also make future green leaders.
International Conference for Sustainable Education (ICSE)
Another interesting project which is close to Pradip Burman’s heart is ICSE. It is an International Conference for Sustainable Education. It discusses the need to incorporate education for sustainable development, climate change and environmental education to students.
Project Aakar
To meet his dream of Mission Sustainability: Planet V/s Population, he began an initiative called ‘Project Aakar’. This project aims at tackling the problems of the increasing population in India. He began this project with the Govt. of India’s initiative to stabilize the population by breaking the old-age myths, changing mindset and promoting contraceptives among young people in UP. Project Aakar educates them about the importance of family planning and reproductive health.
Project Sanjeevani
Pradip Burman launched a mass tree plantation drive under the initiative called ‘Project Sanjeevani’ to increase green cover into the environment. He planted over 5000 saplings in collaboration with farmers, schools, Kisan club members and self-help groups.
Through this initiative, Mobius Foundation
encourages people to reduce their carbon footprint and restore our environment
by planting trees.
Pradip Burman: Living Beyond the Limit A Man Builds
In his entire life & journey, Pradip Burman has been tirelessly working & encouraging many to join the movement for sustainability. And spreading awareness of why a healthy environment is needed for the continued survival of the human race on the Earth.
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Pradip Burman is a well-known environmentalist and campaigner for sustainability.
At 80, Mr Pradip Burman is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, environmentalist & prolific businessman, founded Mobius Foundation. It is a non-profit organisation that works towards sustainable development & spreading awareness among people about why we need to walk on this path.
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The founder strongly believes that we must sprout sustainability awareness in society and showcase the irresponsible activity we do without thinking about our environment for petty gains.
For a sustainable
lifestyle, we must educate children & make some profound decisions so that
they can be soft and friendly towards nature because running behind
materialistic comfort only takes us towards our end.
Therefore, Pradip
Burman began his initiative to save the environment.
The
Initiatives by Pradip Burman
1. Mission
Sustainability: Population V/s Planet
Human population
growth is the root of all environmental-related problems. However, this is
often left out of the conversation. We can fight to lessen climate change,
clean up pollution & stop habitat loss of biodiversity. But these all
cannot be achieved until we address or control unsustainable population growth.
The first thing that we can do is talk about it with the people.
To achieve this
goal, Mobius Foundation began its journey by partnering with Zee Media and WION
Channel to start conversations nationwide to explain how population growth is
destroying natural resources and greenery.
2.
Project Aakar
Project
Aakar
is another initiative by the Mobius Foundation and a part of the Sustainability
Solution program that works to promote awareness among women for family
planning.
As the Earth is
burdened with the growing population, they require more natural resources to
consume, such as water, food, energy. This growing demand is depleting the
planet’s resources.
Through this
initiative, Mobius
Foundation is supporting the Government of India’s commitment to
stabilize the population. It is a crucial step to reduce global issues,
extinction of species & carbon footprint.
3. Gyan Anant
Vidyalaya
Pradip Burman has
established a sustainable school called Gyan
Anant Vidyalaya to teach young children about experiential learning by
planting trees, and to live a sustainable life through curriculum
activities.
The school gives
knowledge through activities like conservation management, forestry, organic
farming, etc.
4. Project
Sanjeevani
To increase green
cover in the states, Mobius Foundation, under Project
Sanjeevani, began a mass tree plantation drive in 2018 and has planted 5000
saplings in Haryana.
The growth of
greenery will not just reduce the greenhouse gases & other carbon
footprints, but it will also help restore the ecological conservation projects
for plantation drive.
Many local
schools, students, farmers, Kisan club members and NGOs join the plantation
drive to improve our Earth’s health.
5 .ICSE India
The International
Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) was jointly established by Mobius
Foundation and ‘The Climate Reality Project’ in partnership with the UNESCO New Delhi office. The initiative
addresses the challenges that are halting the path of sustainable
education.
It is empowering
learners with new values, skills and attitudes that take the entire society
towards sustainability. The leaders, educators, practitioners and policymakers
are sharing innovative ideas, practices, case studies and policies to make a
better decision for ‘Education for Sustainable Development, Environmental
Education and Climate Change Education.’
6 .Training of
Trainers on Circular Economy (ToTCE): The Educational Institutions
ToTCE is
an empowering education programme that brings change to education with circular
economy knowledge. In this initiative, Mobius Foundation invites collaborative
efforts from practitioners, educational institutions and leaders to strengthen
the education system and practices to provide knowledge beyond formal
education. The programme is also designed to induce core circular thinking and
values for teachers, lecturers, and academicians to teach future
generations.
7. Khushal
Parivar Diwas
Mobius Foundation
began Khushal
Parivar Diwas in sync with the UP government’s initiative, family planning.
It organises camps at Trivendigani CHC and Kaisarganj CHC in Barabanki and
Bahraich district to spread awareness and showcase how contraceptive methods
can help them in planning a family.
It will increase
the awareness among couples, help them plan a family & reduce the birth
rates so that they can live a fulfilling and happy life.
My vision has always been clear to educate the ones we already have and get the best solutions with them. Our ongoing project – Mission Sustainability by Mobius Foundation partnered with WION aims to educate people regarding the rising effect of population growth on our environment & how we all can stabilize the population together for a better future and generate a sense of ecological responsibility amongst all.
