Episode 12: Sustainable Living- Building Eco-Friendly Homes - a podcast by Anushna Jha

In conversation with Prashant Lingam, a Social Entrepreneur from Hyderabad, India, and co-founder of Bamboo House India. His social venture works in sustainable bamboo-based livelihoods with an aim of utilizing bamboo as an economic driver for providing sustainable livelihood opportunities to rural and tribal communities at the base of the economic pyramid and use bamboo as an eco-friendly substitute to wood, steel, iron & plastic. He is credited with building the world's first Recycled Plastic House. Prashant's innovative social business models have been globally studied with universities including Harvard and Cornell researching his work. In this episode, he speaks about his journey from looking for a furniture for his new home to building bamboo houses, initial challenges, why bamboo is a sustainable alternative to wood, and how plastic is a resource that can be used to build homes. 

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