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Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:
Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.
Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.
Protecting the world's ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them.
Working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.
Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Project GreenHands
Project GreenHands
Welcome to Project GreenHands
Throughout the world dire warnings are being issued about the effects of human activity on the natural environment. Communities on every continent are experiencing the devastation of declining water quality, soil degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss. Project GreenHands (PGH), a grassroots ecological initiative established by Isha Foundation in Tamil Nadu, India, has grown out of deep concern for the global effects of deforestation and land degradation, and in particular, for the rapidly changing ecology of Tamil Nadu.
Drawing extensively on community involvement and large scale volunteer participation, the Project aims to plant 114 million trees state-wide - providing an additional 10% to the existing level of tree coverage in Tamil Nadu. Since its inception in 2005, PGH has successfully overseen the planting of more than seven million trees by over one million people. As an accompanying measure, agro-forestry models are introduced to benefit the farming community. Further campaigns aim at involving more local educational institutions, NGOs, corporate partners and individuals to grow saplings and plant trees on a large scale. To that aim, PGH seeks to partner with international agencies and multi-national corporations to support the effort of the Tamil population in a sustainable way.
Welcome to Project GreenHands
Throughout the world dire warnings are being issued about the effects of human activity on the natural environment. Communities on every continent are experiencing the devastation of declining water quality, soil degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss. Project GreenHands (PGH), a grassroots ecological initiative established by Isha Foundation in Tamil Nadu, India, has grown out of deep concern for the global effects of deforestation and land degradation, and in particular, for the rapidly changing ecology of Tamil Nadu.
Drawing extensively on community involvement and large scale volunteer participation, the Project aims to plant 114 million trees state-wide - providing an additional 10% to the existing level of tree coverage in Tamil Nadu. Since its inception in 2005, PGH has successfully overseen the planting of more than seven million trees by over one million people. As an accompanying measure, agro-forestry models are introduced to benefit the farming community. Further campaigns aim at involving more local educational institutions, NGOs, corporate partners and individuals to grow saplings and plant trees on a large scale. To that aim, PGH seeks to partner with international agencies and multi-national corporations to support the effort of the Tamil population in a sustainable way.
Friday, July 23, 2010
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