Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Mission Green Earth and PSG Green launch Tree Plantation

Mission Green Earth and PSG Green join hands for massive Tree Plantation. The joint programme was launched on Saturday 4th October, 2008. Sri. Arun Madhavanji -International Faculty of the Art of Living Foundation was the Chief Guest at the inagural function at the PSG Secondary School Auditorium. The programme was attended by School Children and Teachers and Art of Living Volunteers. Sri. Arunji in his speech highlighted how the Art of Living Foundation was also working on projects with zero budget farming, chemical free farming and taking care to preserve the nutrient value of the soil besides the tree plantation programme. He said due to usage of chemicals and fertilizers the carrot crop in America had lesser nutrient value compared to the ones grown in India where the nutrient content of the soil is preserved.

He said our vedic knowledge says "Essence of Life is Earth. Essence of Earth is Water. Essence of Water is Plants. and Essence of Plants are Human Beings." He made every body repeat these words.

Earlier Sri. Arunji Planted saplings and sang Bhajans with the children and they enjoyed it. He had an advice for the children to plant trees and more importantly water and nourish them. He said only Fruit bearing trees, flowering trees or medicinal trees should be planted. Dr.Ramamoorthi of PSG spoke about Global Warming and its impact. Sri. Uthamraj Apex Body Member VVK Tamilnadu , gave the details of MGESUTA 2008 Programme. Dr. Bharathi and Sri. Krishnaprasad organised the function. This was part of their DSN "Sankalpa". of Tree Planting and environment protection. There was a slide show prepared by our former President Dr. Abdul Kalam titled year 2070 and another a short film on student awareness on tree planting. Photo Slide show of the event is on top of this page.

Here is a News Clipping from Dina Malar News Paper

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