Hridith Sudev

Hridith Sudev
Portrait of Hridith Sudev, one of the winners of Young EcoHero Award 2017
Native name ഹൃദിത്ത് സുദേവ്
Born (1999-12-27) 27 December 1999
Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India
Residence Denver, Colorado, USA
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Indian School Salalah, University of Denver
Occupation Poet, Scientist, Author, Activist, Inventor, Environmentalist, Public Speaker
Years active 2012-present
Known for

Project GreenWorld International, SasyaClean

Scientific career
Fields Medical research, Water resource management, Invention
Board member of World Life Foundation
Writing career
Pen name (online) TheWriterly99
Genre Poetry, Fiction
Notable works Catharsis: An Anthology

Hridith Sudev is a scientist, social activist, inventor, author, speaker and environmentalist who is known for founding the World's largest children's environmental organization, The Project GreenWorld International.[1][2] The organization, cofounded in 2012 along with his younger brother, Samved; went on to win numerous acclaims for their environmental stewardship including the National Energy Globe Award 2016 and led to Hridith being appointed as the Project Earth Student Ambassador of Oman to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012.[3] Since 2018, the organization has been reconstituted as a subsidiary of a new NGO mother-body called 'World Life Foundation', of which Hridith serves as the Chairman of Board of Directors.

Hridith is also a prolific inventor and in 2016, shot to widespread fame for inventing and perfecting a cheap and efficient novel water filtration technique using moringa and charcoal. His first book, a poetry anthology titled "Catharsis: An Anthology" was published in 2018.

Early life and background

Hridith Sudev was born on 27 December 1999 in the southern Indian state of Kerala to Dr.Shaji P Sreedhar and Hridhya S Menon.[4][5] During his early childhood, Hridith suffered from ataxia, a condition he recovered from later. He moved to Oman with his parents in 2004.[6]

Hridith Sudev, the Founder of Project GreenWorld during its inauguration in 2012

He graduated from Indian School Salalah in 2018.

Project GreenWorld and environmentalism

Hridith Sudev and his younger brother Samved Shaji, founded Project GreenWorld International under their middle-school Social Science Department in 2012. Beginning as Project GreenOman, the Eco-Club organized numerous activities and events that soon caught the eye of authorities. This led the Eco-Club to be expanded as a non-profit called Project GreenWorld International (PGWI). PGWI went on to win the World Environment Day Global School Award 2012 leading to Hridith being appointed as the Project Earth Student Ambassador of Oman to the UNCSD Rio+20 conference in 2012.

On 5 June 2014, Sudev became the then youngest national recipient of International Energy Globe Awards, Austria (Nature's Nobel Prize) which was awarded to Sudev jointly with his organisation's Oman unit.[7][8] Hridith has often been called the 'World's Greenest Boy' for his environmental stewardship.[9] [10] In 2018, Hridith and his team reconstituted PGWI as a subsidiary of a new umbrella organization called The World Life Foundation. WLF is a registered non-profit NGO working for social justice and environmentalism. Hridith now serves as the Chairman, Board of Directors for this foundation.

Scientific career

According to his website, Hridith Sudev began working on his water-filtration technology in 2016 inspired by his grandmother's practice of using Moringa oleifera seeds to purify water.[11] The then 11th grader Hridith, began working off the research of Stephanie Velegol and team and created a novel concept of adsorbing MOC proteins from moringa seeds on charcoal dust to filter water. Hridith has since started Project SasyaClean, a social entrepreneurship venture to mass-manufacture and distribute this technology to regions facing severe water scarcity.

Writing career

Hridith self-published his first full-length book with TinkerBird Publishing in 2018. The book, a poetry anthology titled "Catharsis: An Anthology" went on to become one of the fastest selling poetry books in the Middle-East. His second book, The Summer of Touch-Me-Nots is expected to release in 2020.[12]

Philanthropy and public life

Hridith has often identified as a social change activist and is an active advocate of feminism and social equality. Hridith has been a vocal supporter of the HeForShe Campaign, LGBTQ rights and Black Lives Matter Movement. In 2017, he launched the neo-history website, "The TheirStory Movement" with Alexandra Fuchs, to "celebrate lesser-known great persons; female, queer or otherwise marginalized, who helped shape the modern World and our history." The website aims to reduce gender bias in textbook history through mass awareness.[13]

Personal life

Hridith is a self-described 'left-leaning, secular, Gandhian feminist' known for his liberal viewpoints in politics. He has named feminist poet, Rupi Kaur, Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, socialist writer and activist Jessica Mitford and Instagram-based writer, Lindsay O'Connel as his literary influences. On multiple occasions, Hridith has identified PennState researcher, Stephanie Butler Velegol, on whose work his research is based on, as is his biggest inspiration in science alongside Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev and Indian rocket-scientist, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Hridith is a practicing Advaitin Hindu with omnist inclinations and has admitted to being on a 'personal spiritual journey' since early-teenage. Hridith studies Biological Sciences at the University of Denver.[12]Hridith is also an avid Instagrammer who works in close association with success coaches to help build a "Good Vibes" culture on the internet.

Awards and honours

Publications

Books

  • Catharsis: An Anthology (poetry anthology) (TinkerBird Publishing, 2012)
  • The Summer of Touch-Me-Nots (novel) (TBA)


Articles and short stories

See also

References

  1. ↑ Indian School Salalah. "Indian School Salalah". ISS Webpage.
  2. ↑ Green Oman. "Project Green Oman". Project GreenOman Official Website.
  3. ↑ Rejimon, K. (24 June 2012). "ISS student bags UN's eco award". Times of Oman. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "മലയാളി വിദ്യാര്‍ഥികളുടെ ഭൗമ പദ്ധതിക്ക് യു.എന്‍. അംഗീകാരം". Madhyamam. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  5. ↑ Salahuddeen (13 January 2015). "ഇന്ത്യൻ സ്കൂൾ സലാല വിദ്യാർഥികൾ ഹൃദിത് സുദേവും അർച്ചന ബാലയും വിഞ്ജാനപരീക്ഷയിൽ വിജയിച്ച് ഡൽഹിയിലേക്ക്" (Madhyamam News). Madhyamam Gulf News. News.Corp. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Fatima, Elisondo; Hridith, Sudev; Alexandra, Bate (25 October 2017). "THE YOUNG FOR THE FUTURE: EMPOWERING YOUTH IN IMPLEMENTING THE SDGS". UN IMPAKTER. 2017 (October). Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  7. ↑ , The International Energy Globe Awards committee dubbed as Nature's Nobel Prize announced Project GreenOman as Oman's National Winner in the Energy Globe Awards 2014
  8. ↑ K, Rejimon. "ISS STudent's Bag's 'Nature's Nobel Prize', The Energy Globe Awards". Times of Oman. Times Of Oman News. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Willan, Nadia. "The Greenest Boy in the World". GoGreenPortals. GoGreen Portals,Bo Put, Ko Samui District, Surat Thani 84320, Thailand. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  10. ↑ Nair, Rohit (4 July 2012). "Project Green Oman". theweek. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  11. ↑ Sudev, Hridith. "SasyaClean". Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  12. 1 2 Sudev, Hridith. "Official Website". Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  13. ↑ Hossaini, Amir. "The TheirStory Movement". The HerStory Movement. Hridith Sudev. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "Indian School Salalah".
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