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Saroja.Earth

A I R

Objective

To

initiate, ideate, integrate and implement

feasible and high-impact multi-dimensional solutions

to improve North Indian air quality

through systemic and collaborative interventions

in science, technology and society

at human, building, neighbourhood, community,

administrative unit, city and state scales and canvases.

Inspiration

Idea
- Work with a theory of change, not a theory of action
- How can you think like an Indian for India?
Institution
- Coordinate, don’t command. Garden, don’t build
- Private ARPA: Shifting the impossible to the inevitable
Innovation
- Doing science online
- The trouble in comparing different approaches to funding
Importance
- South Asian Air Quality - Open Philanthropy
- The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
Integration

Proposed Initiatives

Information Dissemination

Open and Strategic Air Quality Network
Information-Knowledge Dissemination (for policymakers, quasi-judicial and judicial bodies)
The state of North India’s cardiovascular and respiratory health with schools

Knowledge Co-Production

Air quality hardware research and development intervention
Air quality software and technology initiative
Transition TRL for novel sustainability solutions

Collaborative Implementation

Air pollution abatement solution: deployment, monitoring and evaluation
Interventions at Coal plants and Brick Kilns
Site interventions for landfills, crematorium and tandoor
Village gauthans for waste-to-value creation
Gaushala and dairies to use stubble as fodder
Scaling crop diversification in Punjab

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