Native plants are those that occur naturally in a region in which they have evolved. They provide the ecological basis upon which life depends, including that of birds and people. Without them and the insects that co-evolved with them, local birds cannot survive. For example, research by the entomologist Doug Tallamy has shown that native […]
Climate change crisis has reached its heights where officially it is being changed into something called “climate emergency”. Innumerable organisations have started various initiatives to control this menace. But what needs to be given primary attention while addressing the climate crisis is – engagement and involvement of local communities. It has been proven that the […]
The miracle of the Elm in Mumbai by Vithal C Nadkarni and Introducing the Shubh Shakun Bird Kumbhasthali A 100-year-old elm in our area got slaughtered by the authorities on the flimsiest pretext of its being a danger to public life and property. I heard about it after the event through our maid (it towered […]
We recently celebrated World Environment Day with the worldwide theme of #BeatAirPollution with diverse stakeholders ranging from social media influencers to children in the remote villages of India. In fact, our one such initiative of engaging multi-stakeholders involved commemorating World Environment Day 2019 with the Youth Development Society of Sikkim (YODESS) through awareness and plantation […]
Tremendous Green Investment – Larsen and Toubro InfoTech to plant 100,000 trees by 2020 in association with Grow-Trees Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI) is demonstrating tremendous green leadership by supporting the unique social impact-based projects created by Grow-Trees such as Trees for Forest and Wildlife, Trees for Tribal Communities, etc. 100,000 trees plantation initiative supported […]
Grow-Trees is starting it’s 10th year of protection and restoration of ecological balance. Grow-Trees was started in 2010 on the World Environment Day (5th June) by Karan Shah and his father Pradip Shah, the founder of India’s first credit-rating agency, CRISIL. This was the point when climate change and concepts of sustainable development had started […]
According to the newest IPCC report, we are faced with the global crisis of rising temperatures which if not solved, will result in the 2 Celsius global temperature rise. Large scale changes are taking place in the ecosystem services which are creating disturbances and stresses in the ability of ecosystems to survive and adapt. Climate […]
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 […]
DCB Bank has proved that they truly value their customers by committing to create a greener tomorrow for them! They have adopted 2 projects, of 25, 000 trees each, one in the Kolar region of Karnataka–to generate rural employment and the other on the Periphery of the Sitamata Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan to protect the […]
Two members of the Grow-Trees.com team recently went on a site visit to our project in the district of Kheda in the Indian state of Gujarat. They discovered, first-hand, the far-reaching social impact that planting trees in this community is going to have! Last year, our corporate partner Landmark planted 26, 000 trees along the […]