At Grow-Trees, visiting our planting sites is one of our most integral and cherished aspects of our work – they not only serve as essential monitoring opportunities for the planting work but they also consistently provide fresh insights, exciting discoveries and heart-warming encounters. Our latest expedition took us to the Pench Tiger Reserve in Ramtek, […]
– By Guest Blogger Rajiv Vij, Life and Executive Coach, Author and Speaker “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.” ~ Mark Twain. I too have been guilty of this. I thought I was doing my bit by segregating waste, using more recycled products, buying more organic food, avoiding plastic, using […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The success of our project in the areas outlying Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar, Rajasthan is founded on the efforts of Mr. Aman Singh – environmental activist and founder of NGO (and Grow-Trees.com Planting Partner) KRAPAVIS that works toward revitalizing Orans in Rajasthan. We had the opportunity to interact with Mr. Aman Singh last week, […]
Daan Utsav – Grow-Trees.com “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston S.Churchill Any act of giving, small or big, is never wasted. Truly giving from the heart fills your life with joy, inner happiness and nourishes your soul. Inner fulfillment comes from making others […]