My dadi (paternal grandmother) used to tell me bedtime stories of how her family had travelled across the newly formed India-Pakistan border in 1947 and rebuilt their life in India.

I was honoured to host and moderate Our Better World’s Story Talk, to wrap up our new series Our Better Earth: Reset, that focuses on the environmental crisis we face today.

On the panel was Sahaana Sankar, the COO of Hand in Hand India, Agastya Yatra, Head of the Merah Putih Hijau (MPH Bali) programme and Danny Lim, Community Innovator at Repair Kopitiam. The energy and the passion on the topic of looking at our behaviours today and how we can reset our habits to save the environment was truly inspiring.

Did we arrive at all the answers to solving the environmental crisis? No. But we came with open minds and ready hearts and made good progress. Here are some of my takeaways that we can all reflect on.

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