Welcome to Project GreenHands

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Our volunteers has planted 813,226 samplings successfully with the project Green Hands.  Let's know more about this project. please visit http://www.projectgreenhands.org/

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P. Jayaraman

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Welcome to Project GreenHands

Every society needs individuals who will go on planting mango trees without thinking whether they will get to eat the fruits or not. - Sadhguru Volunteers Surpass Planting Target 813,226 Saplings planted After all these millions of years of evolution, one would expect that human beings, the most evolved species of the planet, are also the gentlest. Unfortunately, human contribution to the ecology is largely a tale of endless, wanton destruction. Empowered by the modern science and technology, and in relentless pursuit of comfort and conveniences, we have inflicted untold suffering both upon ourselves but also upon every othercreatures on the planet, bringing it to the brink of extinction. While there is no one solution to the world's ecological problems, it is a time tested fact that the simplest and the most effective solution is to just grow trees. For, every tree grown not only contributes directly to the local environment, but also has a deep cascading effect of regeneration and propagation of the entire ecological processes. So one can actually accomplish something as lofty and Herculean as 'saving the planet', simply by growing trees - lots and lots of them. Project GreenHands is a vision of Sadhguru, the founder of Isha Foundation, to increase the green cover of the state of Tamil Nadu, in South India, entirely though people's initiatives. An estimated 114 million saplings are to be planted in the next 10 years in order to increase the green cover of the state by 10%, involving millions of volunteers across the state. As an immediate step, 813,226 saplings have been planted on the same day - the 17th of October 2006. This campaign will not only bring respite to the ecology of the state, but do so without imposing any fresh financial burden upon the state, whose forest cover is just 17.5%. The project is also a massive effort in community building, presenting a new paradigm of participatory governance and empowering lay individuals to shape the course of the world. Let us Make it Happen!

 

Website: http://www.projectgreenhands.org/