By Catherine Andrews For the past two years, Grow-Trees with the support of DCB Bank has been empowering coastal communities in Tamil Nadu, Southern India, through their Trees+ initiative. This initiative combines mangrove reforestation efforts with seaweed cultivation to create sustainable livelihood opportunities. Primarily focused on afforestation projects across India, Grow-Trees strategically diversified its impact […]
By Pradip Shah Co-Founder & Director of Grow-Trees.com In 1991, the 80-year old credit rating concept that had made no headway outside the USA was getting traction in India, thanks to CRISIL, India’s first credit rating agency of which I was the founder managing director. Following a talk I gave at an SEC event in […]
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 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 […]
Mother’s day comes arrives with great pomp every year, with discounts at restaurants and reduced prices at stores, that help us compensate for the neglectful children we have been all year around. The sentiment though remains untarnished. Celebrating our mothers for the selfless nurturers that they are is a worthy cause. However, the concept of […]
Kanha and Pench National Parks of central India are important Tiger reserves and are a home to the last surviving source populations of Tigers in the country. After the successful plantation of 200,000 trees in the adjoining villages of Kanha National Park in last two consecutive years, Grow-Trees.com shifts its focus to Karwahi Village, situated very closely to one of […]