Sustainability is surely a buzz word these days but I have seen it in business at ISB. When an entrepreneur starts a new venture with some seed funding his first priority is to make the business sustainable because sustainability brings equilibrium in the ecosystem, which can be as big as a business environment or as small as a building. After working in upstream oil and gas industry for close to 5 years I understand the resources that go in to produce a single drop of oil. A penny saved is a penny earned- going by this rule and knowing the fact that the era of easy oil is over, we should be consciously moving towards saving energy as much as we can.
And nothing is better than starting energy conservation from our own home and our own offices. Today buildings consume over 25% of our total energy consumption and this figure will go up as we move towards more and more urbanization. A little share from this can squeeze the supply & demand gap of power in our country.
Acknowledging these facts, we, Co of 2014 at ISB, have come together to make our fellow peers aware of the latest on sustainability. We had organized a sustainability workshop-‘Anubhuti’ to demonstrate the energy conservation measures being adopted at the Mohali campus of ISB. LED light fixtures, basement lighting through solar PV, solar water heating for housing blocks, geothermal system for air conditioning and 100% recycling of STP water are some of the major energy conservation measures.
I think a main aspect of the ISB architecture which everyone on campus acknowledge is the efficient use of day light- from living rooms to corridors and from recreation centre to LRC (Library). It’s a fact that people enjoy more in a natural environment than in a concrete jungle.
Now it’s upon us as future business leaders that how we sustain both!
Tarun Bansal,
PGP Class of 2014, Indian School of Business,
Mohali
