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Friday, August 21, 2015

Tree Visit 1

Jeans, Malls, Metros everywhere with a rapid decline of eco-system with a strong evidence of the absence of a natural sunshade and the chirping of birds is the state of most of the metropolitan cities in the world.

Inspite of this we the members of Chennai social service are feeling blessed in sharing our success with this blog on our FIRST WONDERFUL TREE VISIT EVENT on august 30.

As planned we split up into 6 groups for 6 identified zones. The number of trees that we planned to visit were 52 but we could actually visit only 16. The further details of our visit are shared here:

zone	Zone Volunteers	No. of Trees planned to visit	No. of Trees actually visited
Thiruvallur	Sai, Kirubakaran	12	6
Kodambakkam	Arun, Akshayaa	5	1
Anna Nagar/ Ambattur	Sowmya, Surya, Jaffer	12	6
Manali/ Madhavaram/ Tondiarpet	Gowtham	5	1
Alandur/ Valasaravakkam	Ponmurugan/ Dinesh	9	2
pallavarm	Sanjay Kutty	9	0
		52	16

It was a great experience and got a chance to interact with different minds. One of the highlights are that, people are well aware of the contemporary scenario and they gave us new methods for composting . they are highly interested in growing trees and welcome and thank our efforts for our mission towards green Chennai.

For Snaps:
Subramaniyan weds Maithili - https://goo.gl/photos/vvt6Ci5BfBt29LTs8
Harish weds Niranjani - https://goo.gl/photos/LRJnPMpzuFojMhCx6
Alexraj weds Grahalakshmi - https://goo.gl/photos/fhHqLwjjQE98WCgf7

Sunday, July 19, 2015

ECG - Orientation Session - 2015

Environment Care Group (ECG) team had a Orientation session on July 19. The session happened with the following agenda:

The event started with following Video Clippings:
1. Speech of President Barack Obama in UN's Climate Summit 2014.
2. Speech of Actor and Peace Messenger Leonardo DiCarpio in UN's Climate Summit 2014.
3. Documentary on Jadav Payeng, the Forest man of India.
Inspiring speech by our Dynamic volunteer Gowtham on `Why we should care for Nature?`
Briefing on all the activities in Team ECG.
Arun Prasad gave an overview of achievements of the team in last 1 year.
Break.
Video on M. Yoganathan, Tree Bank of South India.
Detailed briefing of sapling followup process.
Discussion on Field Visit and Tree Album ideas with Action Plan.
Zone leads Registration.
Feedback / Suggestions.
National Anthem.

Thanks to the following green warriors for attending the session and taking up `Zone lead` roles as follows:

Pavithra - Adyar
Surya - Valasaravakkam
Arun - Teynampet
Gowtham - Tondiarpet
Saiyasodharan - Alandur
Sanjai Kutty - Pallavaram Municipality
Jaffer - Ambattur
Bharathi - Valasaravakkam
Swetha - Adyar
Kirubhakaran - Thiru Vi Ka Nagar
Sowmiya - Anna Nagar
Dinesh - Alandur
Akshayaa - Kodambakkam
Yeshvant
Rajendran Selvamani
Prithviraj

Zonal leads for following zones still open:

Tiruvotriyur.
Manali.
Madhavaram.
Royapuram.
Perungudi.
Sholinganallur.

"We are the first generation to feel the Climate change and we are the last generation to do something about it."

- President Barack Obama, UN Climate Summit 2014.

Links:

Chennai Zonal Map - http://chennaicorporation.gov.in/images/MAP_ZONE_WARD.jpg

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Sapling Plantation in VIP colony at Uthandi

Why should the Schools or the Corporates or the NGO's alone be a part in taking steps to make Our Mother Earth greener ? Why not the residential areas??

Yes, this time the plantation was done in the residential area in Uthandi. A person who came up with the idea of planting trees in the area, with his friends, contacted our Environmental Care Group to execute the plan of make his area more greener.

The event started at 8.30 a.m. Our volunteers unpacked the saplings, tree guards and other items.
We were divided into groups, one to dig the pit, another to prepare the tree guards and the rest were engaged in planting the saplings and to water it.

Once the work of digging the holes and preparing the tree guards, which was started simultaneously, got over, we planted the saplings and placed the tree guards which was of two and a half feet height to protect them from the cattles. We planted 26 tree saplings of four different kinds.

It took 6 hours to complete the work and finally it ended at 3 p.m.

Thanks to the volunteers Surya, Sakthi, Gowtham, Akshyaa, Pavithra Murugan, Laxamanan, Sowmiya, Rajesh, Guru, Raja, Arun, Dinesh, Vinodhini, Aneesh, Ramesh and Ram.

This wouldn't be possible without the Yes Bank and our CSS Volunteer, Krupakaran who supported us financially in buying the saplings, tree guards and providing the refreshments to the volunteers.

And special thanks to the localites who helped us from the very beginning till the end in this plantation.

A snap from the event

Check the below link for more snaps
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.983653924987741&type=1&l=61b8b72a0b

Saturday, November 1, 2014

80 Saplings @ Veppambattu Sapling Distribution

We distributed 80 saplings in the reception of Harish and Niranjini on 29.10.2014 in Veppampattu. Thanks to Arvind Sudarshan for providing us this opportunity.

Arvind and Nandu

On Time

This time, we reached the mandapam very early like @ 5.55 PM and spent around an hour drinking juices and having snacks :-) :P

Then after 7.30 only people started getting our saplings and 74 saplings were given by 9.30 PM, after which we went for dinner and left... Arvind handed over the remaining 6 to his relations and messaged us their contact numbers.

New Soul

Nanda Kumar (9th standard student) who is a guest in the marriage, got very interested about our activity and started volunteering :-) He is of big support on that day :-)

Snaps @ https://plus.google.com/photos/100029059227283819807/albums/6075698282540876273

and this time we experimented a new way of getting `sapling receiver` details with a form, which they need to fill and get the sapling. And there will be provision to mark their interests in `Social Activities` and `Blood Group` :-) An idea that sparked in our last `ECG Core Strengthening meet`

We couldn't engage in conversation to get all details from people, as only 2 of us were there.. Will improve this with next event with more volunteers :-)

Last but not least,

* Happy married Life Harish and Niranjini *

ECG - 2013 Sapling Survival Status

Monday, October 13, 2014

October 2nd Week - Sapling Distribution

We had 2 awesome GREEN events this week and it went awesome :-)

Vana Mahotsav @ JRK Matriculation School, Vadapalani

JRK School is celebrating Vana Mahotsav festival by planting trees in their Campus by the school Students. We picked up 50 saplings from Adambakkam Isha Nursery and delivered for the festive.
Big Kudos to Akshyaa and Arun Prasad for the Distribution :D

Snaps @ https://plus.google.com/photos/116575681234767831679/albums/6069590229673253729

Kodungaiyur Sapling Distribution

We resume this year's Sapling Distribution Activity of this year in North Chennai with this event. There were plenty of requests around Kodungaiyur in Perambur, Kolathur, Red Hills, Thiruvottiyur and more with our Isha Nursery localted at Kodungaiyur.

As a start, we delivered 10 saplings to a Tree Lover in Moolakadai :-) More distribution activities to be planned in the same area in upcoming weeks :-)

Snaps @ https://plus.google.com/photos/116575681234767831679/albums/6069591191975818273

If you would like to Volunteer, reach us @ environmentcaregroup@gmail.com / 9952998132

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Environment Care Group - Annual Report 2014

Reason of Origin

In our fast-paced world we tend to forget about the environment around us. Video games and television can distract us from the beauty of nature outside our doors. But just because we don’t often notice it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about the deteriorating environment. Hence this team `Environmental Care Group` is launched.

8 years Journey

In the past 8 years we have accomplished a lot in making our environment more greener. Our work included a wide variety of activities:

Sapling Plantation in Parks, Grounds, etc.,
Distributed Saplings to Individuals who request tree saplings.
Distributed Saplings in Bulk to guests of marriage functions, receptions, etc.,
Assisted Isha Nurseries in the gardening, maintenance works.
Started monitoring governmental activities on Tree Planting to keep a check on public funds being utilized at it best.

Year	Sapling Count
2009 - 2010	2378
2010 - 2011	2219
2011 - 2012	748
2012 - 2013	1240
2013 - 2014	1050
Total	7635

Though we crossed miles, considering our Goal of attaining 33% forest cover in the country, we are yet to go light years ahead.

Expenditure

Year	Sapling Count
2009 - 2010	91525
2010 - 2011	84251
2011 - 2012	21830
2012 - 2013	09386
2013 - 2014	04611
Total	211603

Our Initiatives - SMS - A - Sapling

SMS A Sapling is a brain child of Mr. Tirupathaiah. This project was aimed at Chennai residents who wish to plant trees in their houses, but don’t know where to procure the saplings, how to plant and maintain them. Under this initiative, whoever sends an SMS GREEN to us @ 8754045124, will get a sapling for free. For each SMS that we receive, we call back them, get their address, advise them on the types of trees and distribute it to them for free.

Launched on 26th July 2009 by Mr.Naresh Gupta Chief Election Commissioner @ Queen Marry college Chennai.

Our Initiatives - Sapling Distribution at functions

We initiated a culture of distributing sapling to guests for special functions like marriage, reception, etc., in Chennai. We are regularly distributing saplings to marriage function, on demand.

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