Is Sustainability more about Strategy or your Conscience?
- Albert Schiller
- 6 hours ago
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My Sustainable Encounter with Anup Bagla
by Albert Schiller
Engineering with Conscience
Some people enter sustainability through metrics.
Anup Bagla arrived through moral clarity.
He’s a Chartered Consulting Engineer who audits systems, assesses impacts, and monitors environmental risk. But that’s only part of what he does. What Anup really monitors is conscience.
That sentence stayed with me, not because it was idealistic, but because it was earned. Anup has spent years inside corporate systems. He’s seen how quickly sustainability can be reduced to a checkbox. And he’s chosen to speak up anyway.
Responsibility Over Optics
“I faced many challenges at the workplace,” he said. “Corporate culture wasn’t conducive to environmental conservation. There was non-compliance. Too much greed. Too little reflection.”
He’s written about it. Spoken out about it. And yet, his approach is deeply constructive. He doesn’t just criticize systems, he calls for transformation. He advocates for attitudinal training, HR interventions, and a rethinking of development itself.
His work spans everything from energy and process audits to environmental impact assessments and clearance reports. But at its heart is a call to deeper awareness.
His language is simple. His intent is not.
What strikes me most about Anup is his refusal to separate the technical from the ethical. To him, sustainability isn’t about optics. It’s about responsibility. And that means moving from reaction to prevention—from compliance to care.
“We are already behind,” he told me. “We need to race against time just to manage what we’ve damaged.”
That urgency isn’t performative. It’s honest. Because Anup isn’t selling anything. He’s warning us. And offering tools we can actually use.
Anup’s work reminds us that sustainability is as much about attitude as it is about action.
His path offers lessons for anyone willing to listen:
Anup’s vision is clear: we’re behind—but not without hope.
He doesn’t ask us to be experts. He asks us to wake up:
To stop calling extraction “progress.”
To stop separating ethics from engineering.
To realize that sustainability isn’t a strategy—it’s a stance.
And thanks to voices like his, we still have a chance to stand taller.
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