– 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 […]
World Environment Day
The Role that Children and Youth Play in Climate Change Mitigation
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 […]
Completing 10-years of ecological restoration
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 […]
Children for the Environment
Children are the future, and doing your bit for the environment entails educating the young ones in your life about the importance of preservation. While growing up, if children are exposed early to a pro-conservation attitude they are bound to practice and integrate such practices and principles as adults, effortlessly. They will make eco-conscious decisions […]
10 Ways to Reduce your Carbon Footprint
World Environment Day, 2017 is coming up, and unlike most other holidays that usually include an exchange of gifts and a mass upload of lengthy messages and heart-warming photos on social media, World Environment Day is doomed to leave only a minor blip on our social calendars. There are a lot of us out there […]