Since the Indian Independence day nearing... another golden opportunity and a reason to contribute to the green earth.
Just give a thought to have a plantation program at your respective layouts, apartments, compounds, public places and make the independence day a very meaning ful one along with respecting all our great freedom fighters.
This is could be one of the ways to remember them...!!!!
Incase if you need any assistance please reach me at 98451 75778
Happy planning for the plantation on Independence day!!!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Greening Jal Vayu towers
The tree planting activity at Jal Vayu Towers, NGEF Layout, Bangalore finally happened with a lot of joy, excitement, happiness and nearly 3 weeks of preparation by the Project Green Hands volunteers and the Jal Vayu association.
The Event took off with Rear Admiral Sampath (Retd), the President of the Jal Vayu Towers association, welcoming the gathering and introduced about the day’s activity to the residents. Then, Mr. Raghunath Iyer, PGH Volunteer, introduced Isha Foundation and Project Green Hands. He touched upon the environmental degradation that is being caused and sensitized the impact to our lives. He stressed upon the importance of trees and explained how trees act as the very basis of life and planting more of them “IS” the solution to reverse this environmental degradation.
Rear Admiral Sampath (Retd), the President of the association & Air Commodore KB Menon (Retd), the Member-Greening of the association inaugurated the activity by planting the 1st 2 saplings and the rest of the association members and the enthusiastic residents followed. Everyone was eagerly participating and learnt the art of dirtying their hands for a greener cause. During the whole 1 hour activity, there was a sense of satisfaction, contribution and fun with both the children and the elders alike.
More than 120 residents and volunteers from PGH participated in the event.
The Event took off with Rear Admiral Sampath (Retd), the President of the Jal Vayu Towers association, welcoming the gathering and introduced about the day’s activity to the residents. Then, Mr. Raghunath Iyer, PGH Volunteer, introduced Isha Foundation and Project Green Hands. He touched upon the environmental degradation that is being caused and sensitized the impact to our lives. He stressed upon the importance of trees and explained how trees act as the very basis of life and planting more of them “IS” the solution to reverse this environmental degradation.
Rear Admiral Sampath (Retd), the President of the association & Air Commodore KB Menon (Retd), the Member-Greening of the association inaugurated the activity by planting the 1st 2 saplings and the rest of the association members and the enthusiastic residents followed. Everyone was eagerly participating and learnt the art of dirtying their hands for a greener cause. During the whole 1 hour activity, there was a sense of satisfaction, contribution and fun with both the children and the elders alike.
More than 120 residents and volunteers from PGH participated in the event.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Here you go..... :) :) :)
Digging in for a green future
After doing nine hours of night shift, 90 BPO employees from the city travelled to Nelamangala to plant saplings
-- This is an article that is published in Bangalore Mirror.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QkdNSVIvMjAwOS8wNy8xMiNBcjAwNTAw&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
BPO employees are sometimes maligned as spendthrift youngsters who get too much too soon. Some people see them as 20-somethings zipping around the town in cabs to swanky offices at odd hours of the day and night, spending their weekends in merrymaking.
They would have changed their opinion if they had seen what happened on Saturday morning. After finishing their night shift, 90 BPO employees left the plush air conditioned offices of Aditya Birla MINACS near the Outer Ring Road and travelled to Nelamangala.
By afternoon, they had managed to plant over 200 saplings in the fields of Vishwa Shanthi Ashram.
Each group took about half an hour to plant a sapling against the 10 minutes a seasoned hand would have taken. But not a bad effort considering that they are people who rarely step out to work with their hands.
The employees were carrying spades and getting their hands dirty, egging each other on. “Tum jaise khod rahi ho, shaam ho jayega!” “Must it be 2 feet? There are no rules, yaar!” “Use the crowbar da.” “Yeh to new age farmer lag raha hai” were the quips flying. Most of them were sweating and some chose to go shirtless.
One employee said, “This is not tough, I come from an agricultural background.” Another one added, “It is a pleasure, we hardly ever get to do this sort of work.”
The first group to plant a sapling of “peepal” named their plant “Minpal”.
SITES SCARCE
But why plant saplings so far from the city? “I spoke to many people about land for planting the saplings. At Vishwa Shanti Ashram, the people told me they would provide land for the saplings and look after them,” said Dheeraj Kumar M, a software engineer.
He got the saplings for free from the Isha Foundation’s Project GreenHands, which seeks to reverse environmental degradation and enable sustainable living. Banking extensively on people’s participation, the foundation is aiming to plant 114 million trees state-wide by the year 2010.
Of the 500 saplings ready to be planted, there were 250 Hoo Arasu plants while the rest were kumulu, Flame of the Forest, Singapore Cherry and Saracca Indica saplings.
Rajesh, co-ordinator of Project GreenHands, said the project planted 14,000 saplings in Bangalore last year. This year, it targets to plant 3,000 saplings within the city and on the outskirts
After doing nine hours of night shift, 90 BPO employees from the city travelled to Nelamangala to plant saplings
-- This is an article that is published in Bangalore Mirror.
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=QkdNSVIvMjAwOS8wNy8xMiNBcjAwNTAw&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
BPO employees are sometimes maligned as spendthrift youngsters who get too much too soon. Some people see them as 20-somethings zipping around the town in cabs to swanky offices at odd hours of the day and night, spending their weekends in merrymaking.
They would have changed their opinion if they had seen what happened on Saturday morning. After finishing their night shift, 90 BPO employees left the plush air conditioned offices of Aditya Birla MINACS near the Outer Ring Road and travelled to Nelamangala.
By afternoon, they had managed to plant over 200 saplings in the fields of Vishwa Shanthi Ashram.
Each group took about half an hour to plant a sapling against the 10 minutes a seasoned hand would have taken. But not a bad effort considering that they are people who rarely step out to work with their hands.
The employees were carrying spades and getting their hands dirty, egging each other on. “Tum jaise khod rahi ho, shaam ho jayega!” “Must it be 2 feet? There are no rules, yaar!” “Use the crowbar da.” “Yeh to new age farmer lag raha hai” were the quips flying. Most of them were sweating and some chose to go shirtless.
One employee said, “This is not tough, I come from an agricultural background.” Another one added, “It is a pleasure, we hardly ever get to do this sort of work.”
The first group to plant a sapling of “peepal” named their plant “Minpal”.
SITES SCARCE
But why plant saplings so far from the city? “I spoke to many people about land for planting the saplings. At Vishwa Shanti Ashram, the people told me they would provide land for the saplings and look after them,” said Dheeraj Kumar M, a software engineer.
He got the saplings for free from the Isha Foundation’s Project GreenHands, which seeks to reverse environmental degradation and enable sustainable living. Banking extensively on people’s participation, the foundation is aiming to plant 114 million trees state-wide by the year 2010.
Of the 500 saplings ready to be planted, there were 250 Hoo Arasu plants while the rest were kumulu, Flame of the Forest, Singapore Cherry and Saracca Indica saplings.
Rajesh, co-ordinator of Project GreenHands, said the project planted 14,000 saplings in Bangalore last year. This year, it targets to plant 3,000 saplings within the city and on the outskirts
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Project Green Hands - from Isha Foundation - 11th July, 2009
Dear all,
Namaskaram.
We welcome you to the Project Green Hands activities for this year.
This year we are continuing with the PGH activities, on a low-key note, mainly concentrating on creating awareness and successful dispersal of the balance of 2300 saplings remaining with us in our nursery. Already a few volunteers had spent their time at the nursery over the past 2-3 weekends to clean the nursery and rearrange/re-packet the saplings.
With the monsoons almost here, our tree planting celebrations are also just around the corner!!!
Now the conditions are ideal to plant the saplings.
The Association of JalVayu Towers, a residential apartment complex has kindly accepted to green its campus by planting and taking care of around 100 saplings now.
We request and invite one and all for this activity; particularly kids of all age group are welcome to participate.
The following are the details:
Date: 11th July, 2009 (Saturday)
Venue: JV Towers (Lawn near the Central Water Sump)
Schedule:
0950 hrs to 1005 hrs Volunteers meet
1005 hrs to 1100 hrs Welcome and other arrangements
1100 hrs to 1110 hrs Welcome Address by PGH Volunteers
1110 hrs to 1120 hrs Inauguration of Tree Plantation by the JV Association
1120 hrs to 1200 hrs Tree Plantation by Residents and Volunteers
1200 hrs Refreshments & Dispersal
Location Address:
Jal Vayu Towers, Ganesha Temple Road, Sadananda Nagar,
NGEF Layout,
Bangalore 560038
LandMark: NGEF Factory/ Unnati Center
(Near to NGEF there are signboards for directions to Unnati center and JV Towers is just 50 mts from Unnati Center)
Please Find map attached.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=101789077632369456349.00046c272b555b571c5b0
For direction, Please call Arun: 9844701999
Let us make it happen!!!
Love,
Isha Volunteers
Namaskaram.
We welcome you to the Project Green Hands activities for this year.
This year we are continuing with the PGH activities, on a low-key note, mainly concentrating on creating awareness and successful dispersal of the balance of 2300 saplings remaining with us in our nursery. Already a few volunteers had spent their time at the nursery over the past 2-3 weekends to clean the nursery and rearrange/re-packet the saplings.
With the monsoons almost here, our tree planting celebrations are also just around the corner!!!
Now the conditions are ideal to plant the saplings.
The Association of JalVayu Towers, a residential apartment complex has kindly accepted to green its campus by planting and taking care of around 100 saplings now.
We request and invite one and all for this activity; particularly kids of all age group are welcome to participate.
The following are the details:
Date: 11th July, 2009 (Saturday)
Venue: JV Towers (Lawn near the Central Water Sump)
Schedule:
0950 hrs to 1005 hrs Volunteers meet
1005 hrs to 1100 hrs Welcome and other arrangements
1100 hrs to 1110 hrs Welcome Address by PGH Volunteers
1110 hrs to 1120 hrs Inauguration of Tree Plantation by the JV Association
1120 hrs to 1200 hrs Tree Plantation by Residents and Volunteers
1200 hrs Refreshments & Dispersal
Location Address:
Jal Vayu Towers, Ganesha Temple Road, Sadananda Nagar,
NGEF Layout,
Bangalore 560038
LandMark: NGEF Factory/ Unnati Center
(Near to NGEF there are signboards for directions to Unnati center and JV Towers is just 50 mts from Unnati Center)
Please Find map attached.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=101789077632369456349.00046c272b555b571c5b0
For direction, Please call Arun: 9844701999
Let us make it happen!!!
Love,
Isha Volunteers
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Upcoming event on 11th Jul, 2009
Hi friends...,
Here is an event coming up on Saturday 11th, 2009 !!!!
We are planting around 500 saplings.... Yes... the event is happening in"Vishwa Shanti Ashram", located in Tumkur Road.
For this activity, we have got a very encouraging support from Isha Foundation, who is already having a great expertise in this field and offered us with free
saplings.
This is getting into reality with the help of ADITYA BIRLA MINACS, who will be helping (more than 100 people !!!) in planting these saplings.
All of you, please be there and help us to make it a gr8 success :) :) :)
See you there!!!!
Vishwa Shanti Ashram
24km Tumkur Road,
Vishwa Shanti Nagar,
Bangalore 562123
India
Date: 11th Jul, 2009
Time : 09:00
Here is an event coming up on Saturday 11th, 2009 !!!!
We are planting around 500 saplings.... Yes... the event is happening in"Vishwa Shanti Ashram", located in Tumkur Road.
For this activity, we have got a very encouraging support from Isha Foundation, who is already having a great expertise in this field and offered us with free
saplings.
This is getting into reality with the help of ADITYA BIRLA MINACS, who will be helping (more than 100 people !!!) in planting these saplings.
All of you, please be there and help us to make it a gr8 success :) :) :)
See you there!!!!
Vishwa Shanti Ashram
24km Tumkur Road,
Vishwa Shanti Nagar,
Bangalore 562123
India
Date: 11th Jul, 2009
Time : 09:00
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