Ramya is as an Environmental Engineer who worked in software marketing for two decades. She eventually found her calling as a nature writer, a certified naturalist and the Founder of Green Goobé® (pronounced GOO-bay) Zero Waste Living, a circular, social and environmental impact start-up that manufactures nontoxic, non-polluting cleaners thoughtfully packed in zero waste, reused containers.

Less than two years after commencing operations, Green Goobé won recognition as a transformative start-up tackling Bengaluru’s waste crisis, with backing from IKEA Foundation.

Over the last four years, Ramya has been writing a widely read column in Deccan Herald, called ‘Rooting For Nature,’ about wild creatures that have come to inhabit a once chemically farmed, degraded patch of land that she and her family have been restoring and rewilding, in the outskirts of Mysuru. 

Ramya is driven by a deep passion for the natural world, water security, land rejuvenation, and mindful, low-waste living.

Her articles on nature, water security, land rejuvenation and slow travel, have been published in the BBC, The Hindu, Deccan Herald, RoundGlass Sustain, Readers’ Digest and JLR Explore.