Greenlitfest – Green Literature Festival
December 8th – 10th, 2021
Greenlitfest Business 8th December 2021
The purpose of business has moved from looking at pure profits to benefitting people and the planet as well. The needle has moved further – from ‘Doing well by doing Good’ to ‘Profit from Good’; from doing less harm to ecology to believing how businesses can have a transformational impact on all stakeholders.
The purpose of an exclusive session on Green Business Writing at the Greenlitfest is to curate conversations around hot ideas for leaders, entrepreneurs and executives from various forms of green literature.
Inauguration
Welcome – Benedict Paramanand, Founder, Greenlitfest
Inauguration – John Elkington, Author, Advisor, Entrepreneur
Fireside Chat – Green Swans
Green Swans is a manifesto for system change designed to serve people, planet, and prosperity. In his 20th book, John Elkington – dubbed the “Godfather of Sustainability” – explores new forms of capitalism fit for the 21st century.
If Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Black Swans” are problems that take us exponentially toward breakdown, then “Green Swans” are solutions that take us exponentially toward breakthrough. The success – and survival – of humanity now depends on how we rein in the first and accelerate the second.
Green Swans draws on Elkington’s firsthand experience in some of the world’s best-known boardrooms and C-suites. Using case studies, real-world examples, and profiles on emergent technologies, Elkington shows how the weirdest “Ugly Ducklings” of today’s world may turn into tomorrow’s world-saving Green Swans.
This book is a must-listen for business leaders in corporations great and small who want to help their businesses survive the coming shift in global priorities over the next decade and expand their horizons from responsibility, through resilience, and onto regeneration.
What Businesses can Learn from Nature
‘Draws on ingenious insights and lessons from nature to emphasize the importance of imbibing, developing, listening to and trusting your intuition – increasingly becoming a differentiator in senior circles – to develop the confidence to take that leap of faith which every risk-bearing decision entails’ – Ratan Tata
Fireside Chat – ESG Investing – How India can Build Outstanding Sustainable Businesses
Black-swan events, global warming, COVID-19 and a host of other natural and man-made disasters have tested the resilience of businesses across the world. Usually, blame for business failures is apportioned to external factors such as adverse business cycles, badly framed government regulations and lack of infrastructure. However, the causes often lie within — short-term thinking, destruction of natural resources, exploitation of labour and poor management, to name a few.
Outlast: How ESG Can Benefit Your Business is a clarion call to corporate leaders to follow the pathway of ESG. The authors, Mukund Rajan and Col. Rajeev Kumar, draw upon their considerable experience of working for some of India’s largest organizations to present evidence and case studies that show that ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is the mantra of the future. This is a must attend session by business leaders, entrepreneurs, educators and MBA students. Just like Sustainability, ESG will drive strategy of all firms now!
GLF Honour Books (Business) Award Ceremony – Awards will be presented by a business leader
GLF General 9th December 2021
Literature on the environment, be it fiction or nonfiction, has the power to connect us to nature and open the door to climate consciousness in a myriad ways.
Tune into bold conversations and edgy panel discussions with some of the best minds and litterateurs in the green space. Also, hold your breath for the announcement of honour books and awards in the general category.
The Age & Rage of Cli-Fi
Rumour has it that in the near future all fiction is going to blend into climate fiction. Why is this new genre so hot? How are Indian and international authors showing us climate-change possibilities and eventualities through fiction? Have prophecies already turned true? Gear-up for a 360 degree look at climate-change fiction with authors who’re pushing the boundaries from writing cli-fi for children to penning eco-thrillers for adults and creating futuristic worlds with eco-centric development to imagining anthropocene epochs in eco-dystopias.
The Chipko Movement & Chronicling Environment History
GLF Honour Books (General) Award Ceremony
GLF Children and Youth 10th December 2021
The Earth is getting hotter every year, many species of plants and animals are vanishing, the seas are rising and natural disasters like floods, heatwaves and droughts have become common… The children of today live in a world beset by climate change and anxiety. So, it matters what we’re telling them through literature. Greenlitfest’s children’s programme is a unique bid to engage with Indian children’s literature on the environment. Our inaugural programme will have conservationists, educationists, publishing professionals, writers and the children themselves talking about why we need to go green with children’s literature and the books that pave the way.
Why Green Literature Matters?
WWF-India have been at the forefront of environment education in India since 1970s. Over the past few years they have been deeply invested in promoting environmental literature for children. Their publications division has either published or supported the publication of such literature with various publishers such as Penguin Random House India, Karadi Tales and Tulika. In this presentation they take us through the need for such literature, the gap in the domain and how to build environmental stewardship through books.
Nature, Childhood and Our Emotional Lives: How Literature Binds Us
Can books really make a difference to how we interact with the natural world? In this insightful conversation, the internationally renowned, award-winning children’s writer, Nicola Davies, shares her experiences with Funky Rainbow’s Vidya Mani.
Role of Green Literature in My Life: A Panel Discussion with Children
Our children’s jury has the last word on how they engage with literature on the environment, before announcing the Honour Books as chosen by them.
GLF – WWF Honour Books (Children) Award Ceremony
