Green Talk was organized by Environmentalist Pravin Mishra on Sunday, 20th December at Harit Bagwani Nursery, Burari. Along with a scenic view of Nilgai at his farm in Delhi, participants also enjoyed Bihar special Dahi Chivda, a popular desi food. The number of participants had been kept limited for maintaining social distancing and hygiene.
Watch full video of Green Talk.
India generates nearly 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day, making it the 15th biggest plastic polluter globally. Discarded plastic waste litter the country’s roads, rivers and also form huge mounds in garbage dumps across the country.
Recently Team RISE Foundation initiated a step to fight plastic pollution by reuse of plastic bags as grow bags for saplings. They started a Neighbourhood Nursery in Brahma Apartments, Sector 7, Dwarka region of South West Delhi.
For more details about this initiative please reach out to Madhukar Varshney at +919717096635.
Reference Links
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-generates-26k-tonne-plastic-waste-everyday-40-remains-uncollected/articleshow/67646745.cms
Pleased to announce that MGD Community members got featured in a panel discussion on Democracy News Live on 14th December 2020 along with an eminent host, anchor, journalist, speaker, and chief editor of Democracy News Live, Mr. Rohit Gandhi. The agenda of this panel discussion had been to unveil the ground reality of the environmental impact of a surgical mask, which is now being used by everyone around the globe to control the COVID19 Coronavirus transmission.
MGD community members who got featured were Gig Economy practitioner Shashidhar Bhat and Hepatologist, Digestive Diseases, and Liver transplant Medicine Specialist Dr.Rakesh Kumar Jagdish. Environmental law expert Keith Varghese was also a member of the panel discussion. Experts shared their thoughts and perspective on best practices people should follow to dispose of biomedical waste generated in their homes. The panel discussion also emphasized community awareness and the role of citizens and government in educating people efficiently.
Special thanks to Krishangi Sinha, Producer Democracy News Live and the team for coordinating this panel discussion.
