PROGRAM - ACTION GREEN

GRASS  GROWS  BY  INCHES  AND  DIES  BY  FEET.
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ACTION GREEN Our Environment program
The first chapter of Action Green is being implemented at Champawat. This fabled fragile environmental belt, housing a large variety of flora and fauna is fast vanishing. The concern to conserve the remaining, has been taken up on a war footing. The attempt is to curtail overdependence on natural resources for fuel and fodder.

ETHOS To activate and sustain pro environment movement in friction areas between man and nature. And to make technology and resources available.
Spreading Awareness. Collective action for balanced development. Encourage reforestation. Promote ecotourism.
Preservation of Fauna. Discontinue practice of dynamiting fish. Water management / harvesting. Use of subsidized alternate fuel resources.
Aiding and abetting natural habitat and heritage protection project

FUNDS Proceeds from Turfs and Hives - upholding the tenets of eco- friendly  tourism. Organize events to raise funds. Implementation of programs executed through grants/sponsorships.

PEOPLE The local populace of the project area is the back bone and their collective action is the main stay, of this people based movement. For conducting programs, events and seminars, Volunteers with a know how on green way of life, will be provided with board and lodging at Camp Warren.

THE YEAR S GONE BY
Progressing Action Green at a micro level Drishtikone has ensured that its requirement of wood for fuel and heat is zero.  This has put us in a position where we can encourage people to reduce and do away with wood as a staple source of heat in this cold mountainous region. This is easier said than done. Generations of local lifestyle subsisting on free fire wood from jungles are not willing players in this program. The harsh winters where the absence of heat can mean life or death for the impoverished people. This throws agencies implementing conservation and protection programs in a moral dilemma.
As a first step we are trying to decimate the information about ill health suffered by the women through firewood in the kitchen. We have met with large success in rural homes which have LPG connections. A rising demand for LPG connections is pending availability of funds with our program Action Green. Better still solar heat.
The Action Green program was well received by visitors to Camp Warren . Groups abstained from ritualistic camp fires. Guests at Turfs & Hives cottages did not flinch at non use of electricity. Recycling and waste management with stress on organic lifestyles got many accolades for Action Green from visitors.

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