The festive season brings with it a flurry of expenses–entertaining friends, sprucing up the house, eating out, buying presents, travel and a lot more depending on what your custom and culture dictate. The festive season is also, unfortunately, a season of waste. Thanks to the irresistible sales, discounts and offers that are pushed by practically […]
Boundaries don’t protect rivers, people do. — (Brad Arrowsmith, Landowner along the Niobrara National Scenic River, Nebraska) About World Rivers Day World River Day was proposed by Mark Angelo, a resident of Burnaby, Canada after the declaration of the Water for Life decade in 2005 by the United Nations. Mark Angelo is an internationally recognized river […]
The pristine state of Uttarakhand located in Northern India is one of the few states in the country that lies on the Indian Himalayan belt. It is nestled in the foothills of the Himalayan range and is known best for the density of natural resources that the state is gifted with. Rivers, glaciers, forests and […]
Whatever kind of business you have, you will have some kind of impact on the environment. Try to make your impact positive with these simple ways in which your business can save the planet. Design and planning Plan your space to make as much use of natural light as possible. Large windows that let in […]
The Asian elephant–Elephas maximus population is estimated to be 27,312 by the All-India Elephant Population Estimation of 2017, a first of its kind in the country. The elephant has been labelled a mega-herbivore by the World Wildlife Fund-they are plant-eating mammals that weigh more than 2,200 lb (1,000 kg) and require up to 330 lb (150 kg) […]
In India, every year the first week of July is dedicated to the forests of the country and is celebrated as Van Mahotsav week. This day was launched by K.M. Munshi the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food with the intention to raise awareness and motivate every citizen to plant at least one sapling […]
The Grow-Trees.com team visit to our project site for Sikkim was filled with many firsts. Our project in Sikkim kicked off last year across various project sites in Eastern Sikkim, ranging from Trees for Himalayan Himalayan Forests in Pakyong, Trees for Schools and Monasteries and Himalayan Biodiversity around Dalapchand and Aritar and Trees for Himalayan […]
On April 7, 2018, the top performers of the Walk For A Cause campaign conducted by Larsen and Toubro Infotech, India for its employees, visited the village of Nimbhora in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. Walk For A Cause is a unique initiative that allows users of the Impact App to raise funds for a cause of their […]
This year Croma–Indian retail chain for consumer electronics and durables, has supported the plantation of trees in our ‘Trees for Tigers’ project at Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar, Rajasthan. Over the past 5 years, Grow-Trees has planted a total of 2,50,000 trees on the Periphery of the Sariska Tiger Reserve. Year after year Grow-Trees has […]
This year saw the completion of the 45th anniversary of the first ever ‘Chipko Movement’ (brought to the world’s attention by Google doodle). The Chipko Movement, first put to practice in 1973, was a watershed moment in Indian history for two reasons–first, the coming together of women to protect forest resources and second, a grassroots level […]