Vivek is the founder of cBalance Solutions at www.cbalance.in, an organization that co-created the Fairconditioning programme. He is an Ashoka Fellow and an Environmental Engineer from the University of Massachusetts with expertise in Water, Wastewater Treatment and GHG Inventorying, and Energy Auditing/Analytics. He is Co-founder of India’s first Carbon-Footprint-Calculation and Reduction movement – the NO2CO2 project at www.no2co2.in, Developer of India-specific Carbon ERP Tools and GHG Emission Factor Databases under the Climatenomics Platform, Co-Founder and Member of the Steering Committee for the First Ecolabelling Program in India – ‘The Green Signal’. He is also a civil-rights interventionist working to usher in an era of informed participation in democracy in India as Founder of the ‘Informed Voter Project’ currently on the web at www.MumbaiVotes.com.