Sapgreen Community Plans

This will be a place for all of you who are interested in trees and environment in general to write articles, share thoughts and even plan activities among yourselves. Every one of you would definitely have an idea for making the Earth greener.....

Sapgreen is NEW

After 7 months of action, we had learnt a great deal of things. How people value trees and how a few detest them!! How important trees are yet how less importance it gets!! How varied are trees from each other and how monoculture is being promoted by the country!!

Rural Solar lighting--Market Survey

In our quest to know more about the rural market for solar power, we headed towards villages around HD-Kote which is about 45kms from Mysore. We understood that rural market in India cannot be generalized using the statistics that big time marketers use.....

Google Maps

Finally, Google Maps has Mysore in high resolution. This should be useful in a lot of different ways. The satellite images however are at least an year old.This I can tell from construction activities captured by the satellite images....

Can be done

The company sold 50000 lamps and now plans to sell it in African countries as well. Won the Ashden award once. Looking at these companies, I get hope. Business can co-exist with environment. Business can co-exist with people. No business model is not impossible.....

No posts, no rains!!

Last week, all of a sudden the rains came for 2 consecutive days. All it did was to fool me into believing that the monsoons were back on track.....

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, ......

Environment Day Update

250 saplings; a single objective

These are approximately 10 feet in height and of various varieties. Indian Tulip, Rain tree, Mahagony, Wild Almond, CannonBall tree, Maulsari, Saptaparni, Kassod, Indian Almond, Neem, Champak, Bhadrakshi, Rudrakshi, Bilvapatra, Soapnut, Kadamba, Weeping fig, Dhalichandra and Bauhinia. . .More. . .

Things to do

Its been 39 days since Sapgreen became operational. Even before start, there was optimism on various issues and there was pessimism on a few.

A suggestion from Sapgreen

For example, residents of Gokulam 3rd stage could form a community and decide to plant trees on a certain date. From our side, we could provide an online forum for the community as well as arranging for planting and maintenance of the trees. An offline community also needs to be in place for better participation. . .More. . .

Sapgreen update

After a few days of lull in our outdoor activities, we plan to plant some more trees this Sunday. A few people now understand the concept of trees as commemorative gifts and hence this activity. . . .More. . .

Plants trees for a living

They ask me "How do you make a living by planting trees?". I say "No one really knows, so I am finding it out so that more people can make a living by planting trees and thereby plant more trees". What is more? The job involves business, engineering and a lot of science as well. . .More. .. .

Vaishnavi's green gesture

They came down to Mysore to visit a few people. I am still not sure whether she had already told about the tree to him or whether it was a surprise to him. He came down to my place, we talked about our old days at Bosch...More...

Tree-tamer Khan, of Mysore

He bends the laws of nature and tames trees. Yet, his respect for the trees is immense. He experiments on trees. He has performed successful surgeries on trees. His trees grow at extraordinary pace and sometimes in totally unforgiving soil. His trees look like well behaved pets growing in the manner he wishes.. . .More. . .

You, we, and a tree

Ages ago, some fellows discovered that flower bouquets could be presented like gifts. If those fellows had simultaneously discovered that trees could also be used the same way, we wouldn't have a problem now...More...

Sapgreen story

No business plan is done overnight. And with a vague, untried idea of ours, preparing a business plan was all the more difficult. Moreover, almost everyone we surveyed wanted to plant a tree. With only positive answers, it becomes a lot more difficult to judge whether we are on the right path. . .More. . .

Before Sapgreen

After many months and after numerous business plans, we were still not sure whether we were on the correct path. One day, during a gtalk session, Anil asked me whether I was interested in the NGO model. I said that I wanted to plant trees but not in an NGO model. . .More. . .