We are proud to be associated with companies like TATA AIA Life Insurance, who are not only ensuring the life of their customers but also of marginalized tribal communities of India. Their core value of considering the consumer paramount and creating distinctive opportunities for development is truly prevalent in any activity undertaken by them. TATA […]
ABOUT GROW-TREES Grow-Trees.com is a social enterprise, launched and dedicated to the Planet on World Environment Day, June 5, 2010. It is the Official partner of the United Nations Environment Program’s Billion Tree Campaign, WWF’s Cities for Forests Campaign, and The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and has been recognised by the YPO-WPO Global […]
As per Nielsen, the market research firm, 68% of consumers in Australia are willing to pay more for products from companies who support worthy causes concerned with the environment. India has been at the forefront of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) paradigm, much before the introduction of Section 135 of the Companies Act 2013, which […]
The Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) of India has been an abode for the iconic Tigers for the longest time. This land of dynamic dry deciduous forests are surrounded by the River Ken. Spread over an area of 542.67 square km, it has been declared as the twenty-second Tiger reserve of India and the fifth in […]
The continued destruction of mangrove swamps in poor countries to provide shrimp for people living in rich countries is simply the market operating in a vacuum untroubled by ethics. — Charles Clover ( In The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat (2008) Present in the tropical and […]
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 […]