Next big challenge for India/your community

(What do you think is the) Next big challenge for India/your community:


Triple bottom line sustainability: An overall approach to People, Planet & Performance!

As I see it, there has been a dual core existence to human civilization - one that looks at profits (the Capitalist) & the ones who look at humanity (the Philanthropist). In recent years, the field of "environmental conscience" has emerged. Apparently, these are three different nodes, though they are not quite singular by nature as they are portrayed. Rather, triangulation of these signify the core of our existence. Irrespective, very less attention is being given to work on all of these together to achieve common good.

During my Masters', I interned with the Institute for Sustainable Development, an organization that concentrated on targeting a triple bottom line approach in businesses and communities. They have shown it, it is possible to earn profits while doing social good and being environment friendly. There are quite a few of such sporadic experiments across the globe, but need a lot of attention and efficiency to create adaptable replicable models.

For me, it is the biggest challenge to create such models for developing countries, where we don't categorize as for-profit or not-for-profit, but we do good on triple bottom line approach.