Making Green Mainstream

Planting trees to fight climate change and reviving water bodies.

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Challenge

Training and hand-holding farmers in natural farming techniques

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Strategy

trees planted

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Impact

36 countries, 26 Indian state

Overview

The global green cover has been rapidly decreasing over the past decade. India itself has lost tree cover of 16 lakh hectare in the last 17 years. Forests are home to many indigenous species which are critical to maintaining the balance of the ecosystem. With fewer trees, endangered ecosystems, and the climate crisis looming large, we need to collectively make up for the lost green cover.

We are striving towards a greener planet with our large-scale regular tree plantation drives. Over the years we have planted trees worldwide. Through Mission Green Earth, a tree plantation campaign started in 2008, we planted 9.6 million trees across the globe. Moreover, tree plantation is a major activity for the river rejuvenation projects in India as trees help in conserving rainwater, a crucial process in recharging the water table. The activity not only helps in rejuvenating water bodies but also helps to rejuvenate air and soil.

9.6 million trees were planted by The Art of Living volunteers under the Mission Green Earth initiative.

Kindling compassion and care within ourselves kindles deeper connection to, and care for the environment. That is why I consider spiritual awakening as a vital part of any environment care campaign.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Strategy

Planting trees and ensuring that the survival rate is high is one of the responsibilities that The Art of Living takes seriously. The trees we have planted have a 90% survival rate. This has been possible because of our 3- step strategy:

  • Planting saplings and plants and using drip irrigation
  • Digging deep trenches to protect from animals
  • Daily monitoring to avoid unforeseen mishaps

Drip irrigation systems bring down water footprint and thereby maintenance costs significantly. Creation of deep trenches helps in reducing sapling protection costs significantly as compared to building individual tree guards around each sapling to protect them from being local cattle. These trenches help in harvesting rainwater and thereby keeping soil moisture content high season, which is very critical for the high survival rate of saplings.

Three Step Strategy

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Proper plantation

and drip irrigation

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Digging deep trenches

to protect from animal

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Daily monitoring

to avoid unforseen mishaps

Impact

trees planted

out of which 9.6 million trees planted under Mission Green Earth initiative. 

56,000

trees planted

around Kumudvathi river

10,000

trees planted

near Palar river

15,000+

saplings planted

2,000

trees planted

Around Vedavati river site

Success stories

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