Plantation Drive - Make our surrounding green

Prithvi is all geared up to GO GREEN this year too, perhaps in a bigger way, now that it has a bigger team, just waiting for the RainGods to shower their blessings.

For the past six years Prithvi has been celebrating VANMAHOTSAV (July to Sept.) by conducting plantation drives in schools, communities,institutions along with lot of green activities and contests at all levels to bring people together to care and conserve the rich biodiversity around them.

This year let's do the best we all can to increase the green cover in our city or any place on this planet for that matter...

So friends out with your creativity, concern and management skills to bring in as many people and as many areas and as many native and shady trees this season.

Let's involve and empower the communities, schools etc. to get greenfected.

Till the RainGods arrive lets do makes a quick check list and do the groundwork:

• identify places needing greenery
• identify the kind of saplings we need to plant and
• most important --ensure their protection and survival.

When choosing a place place ensure the following:

1. somebody owns it and is willing to take the responsiblity to water n care for the saplings-community participation is very important
2. the place must be enclosed,i.e it is protected from animals as it would be difficult to arrange tree-guards
3. there is no plans to have any construction at that place in the future so that the plants donot get disturbed n are allowed to grow.
4. it should not be too rocky n require lot of leveling etc..
5. there should be some source of regular water-supply nearby.
6. the people who own that place shd be willing to do the basics-- ground leveling, diging the pits before hand, putting manure etc..
7. where space is an issue we can suggest plantation in pots, terrace etc.

Let's divide Lucknow in 8 areas. Members residing in the respective areas may please start identifying their GREEN SPOTS well in advance:

• IIM & around
• Bakshi Ka talaab
• Janakipuram, Aliganj,Niralanagar,mahanagar
• Kursi road,Vikas Nagar
• Indiranagar
• Gomtinagar
• Alambagh n around
• South city & Aashiana

Time to take charge & stay tuned for many exciting contests n events with Prithvi....

Prithvi member can suggest and discuss the issue - please visit:

http://groups.google.co.in/group/prithvi4issues/

and click on "Discussion regarding plantation"