In this episode of 'The Women Inspire Aspire Podcast', I talk to Madhuri Subbarao about environment and behavioral change.

Environment and sustainability are key topics today in the minds of people in the context of climate change and climate action. Having worked on lakes in Bengaluru for a long time, Madhuri now feels that it's the mindset of the people that need to change more than anything else to address the environmental concerns like waste management and recycling and efficient use of water. She honestly admits that her work so far has not made any dent, and has started efforts to instill behavioral change in people. When we talked about what areas she would work on, she mentioned several pillars including waste management, and water and electricity usage.

Having done quite a few podcasts on education, environment, and public relations and mass communications, I am always curious about how people address the twin problem of spreading the word out to the huge population of India and how do they follow-up to make sure that people are consistently following the new practices without resorting to the old methods. So I asked these questions to her, and she said she is in the planning process for those.

Addressing civic and sustainability issues need multi-pronged approach, and in addition to policy changes and implementation, addressing people's mindset also plays a key role. I am happy to have talked to Madhuri about the people side of things after having done some podcasts from the other perspectives.

Madhuri shared her hobbies and interests as well as the societal issues that she cares about. We ended the podcast with Madhuri expressing hope that people who listen to the podcast get curious and interested in this topic and see how they can implement these in their day-to-day life.

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