{"id":604955,"date":"2023-09-21T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604955"},"modified":"2023-09-21T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T05:10:30","slug":"indias-solar-tech-venture-finalist-in-prince-williams-earthshot-prize-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-solar-tech-venture-finalist-in-prince-williams-earthshot-prize-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s solar tech venture finalist in Prince William\u2019s Earthshot Prize 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solar-powered tech venture that is combating food waste in India is among 15 worldwide finalists competing for the GBP 1 million 2023 Earthshot Prize, founded by Britain\u2019s Prince William and dubbed the \u2018Eco Oscars\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>S4S Technologies, founded in 2013 by seven university friends Nidhi Pant, Vaibhav Tidke, Swapnil Kokte, Ganesh Bhere, Shital Somani, Tushar Gaware and Ashwin Pawade, is shortlisted in the \u201cEarthshot Prize to Build a Waste-Free World\u201d category as the finalists were unveiled by the royal during a visit to New York on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>S4S, which stands for Science for Society, made the cut for its work in tackling food waste, rural poverty, and gender inequality by helping smallholder female farmers preserve and market surplus produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar-powered tech venture that is combating food waste in India is among 15 worldwide finalists competing for the GBP 1 million 2023 Earthshot Prize, founded by Britain\u2019s Prince William and dubbed the \u2018Eco Oscars\u2019. S4S Technologies, founded in 2013 by seven university friends Nidhi Pant, Vaibhav Tidke, Swapnil Kokte, Ganesh Bhere, Shital Somani, Tushar Gaware and Ashwin Pawade, is shortlisted in the \u201cEarthshot Prize to Build a Waste-Free World\u201d category as the finalists were unveiled by the royal during a visit to New York on Tuesday. S4S, which stands for Science for Society, made the cut for its work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}