Leave behind your MEMORIES - Tree Plantation at Karur Public School

We at NISARGA, work a lot with schools as we do Nature & Outdoor based education programs all across Karnataka. On one of such program I met Santosh who is young and so passionate to give one of the best of the best education to his students...More

'Green' school at Vijayanagar

They have planted even on public space in front of their school. "These trees are four years old," said the school founder K N Anantharamaiah, referring to their pavement plantation...More

Ugadi Plants--A Status Report

The plants you see in the picture has each a story to tell. But their collective story began on Ugadi day last year...More

Banyan tree at Beirchaa Lake

The mutiple trunks and aerial roots are quite closely spaced and provide myriad ideas, glimpses and dialogues...

A search engine that plants trees

Ecocho.com is eco-friendly search engine which plants five trees for every 1000searches made on its website. Ecocho uses Yahoo’s search technology to power searches made on their site....

Green-STEP: Making a difference to the environment

In green-STEP website we have shared information on how each one of us as individuals can take simple but powerful 'ACTIONS' to make a difference.....

A rakhi for trees; vriksha bandhan

The decade-old ritual was the initiative of a village school teacher Mahadev Mahato from Dudhmatia in Hazaribagh district. In her article Moushmi Basu reckoned that Mahato has helped restore nearly 25,000 acres of forestland...

Jaisalmer Fort

The houses of the people residing in the fort have intricate work and carvings on their walls and balconies. They almost look like yellow fabric rising skywards...More

Heritage Trees: Five, and counting

There are scores of other trees awaiting heritage cerification. Wouldn't it be nice if Prof. Ramalingam and others in the committee share their thoughts on the criteria for identifying a heritage tree?...More

Ad-lined Avenue

Ads may not grow on trees; but they sprout close to them on this tree-lined avenue....

A walk around the lake

Nearly three years back I wrote about a stench from the lake and Kukkarahalli mo(u)rning walkers. Three days back we took a walk along the lake.....

Morning mist, Mysore

Ramdass takes a power-walk

Mr Ramdass has a bunch of people walking with him, even at 5.30 a m. His pre-dawn walks attract media attention. Neighbourhood residents await him with petitions and grievances. Municipal officials pay attention because they believe MrRamdass has CM's ears.This is not padayatra; it's power-walk, by a man who knows how touse his position....

Landscaping sidewalks

Coastal erosion: A green wall for protection and for profit?

How do plants prevent soil erosion? When rain water runs off to lower levels or waves recede to the sea, they take away loosened soil with them. The stem of trees and the roots mitigate the erosive force of flowing water, thereby preventing soil being carried off....

My Trees

My landmarks across Bangalore used to be trees...and I rarely remembered street names or other features. In the late 90s I moved out of Bangalore for a decade. And when I came back, I could not find my way around my home city. They had chopped down that lovely old Butea on 15th cross.....

Community Planting

Kids planted over 70 trees at our colony. They have formed a group called ecoLife. Target is to plant 2000 trees with 200 different varieties. Tree Diversity they call.......

Reply to previous post: "tree plantation"

Ravishankar's post raised a very important question regarding where the members meet. And what is currently on the agenda. Although we have done a lot of activities in the past few months, all were done separately as individual activities.....

Tree graffiti

Any tree-lover would be appalled by such defacement .....

SJCE Trees

Today, our SJCE campus which already one of the greenest places in Mysore became even more greener. We planted about 60 trees today within the campus, ......