He is a graduate in Chemistry and has worked as Chief Technical Officer at NCL. For the last 40 years, he has been studying global warming and its adverse effects on climate change. He founded ‘Vasundhara Swachhata Abhiyan’ in 2006. He is also one of the founding members of ‘Ramnadi Swachhata Abhiyan’ and ‘Ramnadi Restoration Mission’. Under the banner of these organisations, he has initiated cleaning and plantation drives at Baner, Mhalunge, and Ghoradeshwar. He also organises workshops, and awareness programmes on organic farming, toxin-free food and plastic pollution. He has constructed small bunds in the Satara district.