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📚 Knowledge & Publications → 📰 In the News
We don't chase press. When our work does get written about, it is usually because a panchayat, a school or a group of women did something worth reporting — and someone noticed.
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The New Indian Express · 9 March 2019 · Kochi
Our first national platform: ClimateLaunchpad in Kerala, run with ATREE-CERC and Climate Studio, bringing the world's largest green business ideas competition to innovators in the state.
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28-YO Turned 30,000 Kg Waste Cloth Into Usable Products & Helped 40 Women Earn
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The Better India · Feature
A profile of our co-founder Sanju Soman, and the founding of SUSTERA in 2017 — including the first Climate Leadership Programme in Kerala, run for fifteen young people from climate-vulnerable districts.
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World Earth Day 2026: A few initiatives from Thiruvananthapuram doing their bit for the environment
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The Hindu · 22 April 2026
SUSTERAs initiatives mentioned in The Hindu as part of Earth Day 2026
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Sustera: Climate Leadership Program
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Global Solutions Initiative · Berlin · Feature
Our flagship programme written up for an international policy audience — the first time the CLP model was presented outside India.
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Much of our coverage never reached the internet. The Amballoor climate governance work in particular was reported repeatedly in the Malayalam dailies across Ernakulam district — which mattered far more locally than anything in English ever did.
These three pages, from April and May 2025, follow one thing from training to trading: the LED clinic in Amballoor Grama Panchayat. Headlines translated from Malayalam.
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Mathrubhumi · 29 April 2025 · Amballoor
"LED bulb-making training for women in Amballoor"
Where it began. Forty women trained in bulb assembly and repair, ahead of setting up the clinic itself — built on the Thuruthikkara Science Centre model and run as part of the Panchayat's net-zero carbon programme. Panchayat President Biju M Thomas inaugurated the training; our programme officer spoke alongside the ward members who had pushed for it.
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Deshabhimani · 23 May 2025 · Piravom
"LED bulb repairing unit begins operation"
Four weeks after the training, the unit opened for business — five members, and 1,000 dead bulbs collected from all 16 wards in the first week alone, handed straight over for repair. Inaugurated by the Haritha Keralam Mission district co-ordinator, with the logo of the "An Amballoor model for sustainable development" programme released by the district panchayat. Dr. Priyadarsanan Dharmarajan of our board was among the speakers.
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Mangalam · 29 April 2025 · Kanjiramattom
"LED bulb-making training"
The same day, a second paper — and the detail we would never have claimed for ourselves: Amballoor had just been judged the state's best panchayat for waste management, and marked the occasion by presenting mementos to SUSTERA and the Thuruthikkara Rural Science Centre. The clinic's purpose is stated plainly: cut electronic waste at source rather than manage it later.
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Still to come: the Climate Leadership Programme cohorts, the coastal cleanups and the Valiyathura tailoring collective, and GenRE's mangroves and school rooftops — all of which were carried in the district editions.
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How to photograph a clipping so it looks deliberate
Lay the paper flat in daylight, shoot from directly above, and include the masthead and the date in the frame. Straight edges, no shadow of your hands. One consistent style beats four good photos taken four different ways.
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Not everything worth reading about us was written by someone else.
Sanju on building a climate career from scratch, with no map.