Environment

We wish to introduce ourselves under the aegis of the "Save Sankey Road and Park Forum". We comprise of people from all walks of life - doctors, advocates, civil servants, software engineers, business persons, house wives and students and so on. Sankey Park Walkers Association, Sadashivanagar Residents Welfare Association, Lower Palace Orchards Residents Welfare Association, Malleshwaram Swabhimana Initiative, Hasiru Usiru, Sadashivnagar Working Professionals Group and Gayatridevi Park Residents Welfare Association came under one roof for the cause of preserving the existing green cover of Sankey Road. It is under threat from unscientifically planned road widening.Mission- To engage in a constructive…

BBMP has installed an Organic Waste Converter (OWC) in  Malleswaram Market a couple of weeks ago as part its project to renovate the market. The market now has a system that manages all waste that is generated within the market. The OWC cost around Rs 22 lakhs. OWC can process one ton of waste every day. Pic: Vani Murthy. The OWC is a machine that processes wet organic waste by employing aerobic microbial decomposition. The organic waste is churned into a homogenised; odour free output through a bio-mechanical process. This output is left to cure in baskets for stabilisation where…

Almost everyone who visits or moves to Bangalore is captivated by the blooms that add colours to the city, all around the year - flaming Gulmohur in summer, pleasing Jacaranda in spring, sparkling Copper pods in autumn. Walking through roads and lanes where these trees have survived the metro and road widening constructions, it is hard to imagine that the man behind these is a German, Herr G H Krumbiegel to be precise. City under Siege. Pic: Maragathavalli Inbamuthiah Goethe Institute located at Indiranagar recently remembered and honoured this "Economical Botanist" who, under the rule of  Krishnaraja Wodeyar, imported many…

Walking into this boutique garden store in Indiranagar is like visiting the terrace garden anyone might have always dreamt of creating. At Sunshine, there are pebbles strewn on the floor, a light green canopy softening the summer sun and beautiful Bonsais in pots, trays and pieces of wood adding to the abundance of green. Pic credit: Sunshine Boutique. If that's the terrace, the entrance to this Indiranagar bungalow is equally verdant with potted plants, colourful figures, bamboo and metal wind chimes, lamps hanging from branches and fountains. Most things are for sale but some aren't, as Veena Nanda, one of…

About two years ago, when writer Usha Rajagopalan looked out of her balcony, the view that faced her was that of a vanishing lake called Puttenahalli Kere. As a longtime resident of the apartment complex L&T South City, Usha remembers the lake as a large water body that attracted several kinds of birds once. See: Kere in crisisAs apartments in the area grew and consequently, a slum started building up, encroachment, waste disposal and activities like bathing and fishing resulted in the lake's water level and quality diminishing rapidly. The lake lies between Puttenahalli in JP Nagar VI Phase, Lakshmi…

After almost three months of being launched, the “Dry Waste Management Initiative” project is a huge sucess members of the The Brigade Millennium Cassia Apartment Owners Association say. The project is designed on a holistic perspective, along all the dimensions of reduce, reuse and recycle. In January 2010, the residents of the apartment implemented the project.The Cassia block of the Brigade Millennium complex in South Bangalore’s JP Nagar 7th Phase is a typical community of urban dwellers.  With 195 apartments, spread over 15 floors, this residential building has both, a significant demand on resources as well as a significant footprint…

Simply put Urban Commons refers to spaces in a city that a broad spectrum of people use and depend upon. Agara Lake located south east of the city is one such space. Like most other lakes in the city, Agara is an irrigation tank that dates back to the 9th century. Apart from irrigation, and water supply the lake is also home to a wide variety of flora and fauna.D’Souza’s study is an attempt to understand the effect of urbanisation on what began as a solution to irrigation of agricultural lands in the area. Agara turned out to be the…

Vendors who participated in the melaLabournetJP Nagar II PhaseTel: 44504450, 9448395258Email: rajesh[at]labournet[dot]in, aditya[at]labournet[dot]inGreat Bear PromotionHennur Road, Kalyan NagarTel: 25431414, 9243101670Email: gbpcti[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]inFarmland SystemsJayanagar 7th BlockCell: 9448076595Email: farmlandrhs[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]inHoneywell Rain Water HarvestingGanganagarCell: 9945331381Email: honeywell[dot]rwhs[at]gmail[dot]comRainbow Rain Water HarvestingMattikereTel: 66379585, 9844055050EcoserveYelahanka New townCell: 9341325216, 9379538366FramelinesKengeriCell: 9880659675Email: tomlalthomas[at]hotmail[dot]comSwaraj FoundationAmrutnagarTel: 23622938Email: swarajfoundation[at]gmail[dot]comGreen TechnologiesBanashankari III StageTel: 26696905, 9448571861Email: greentech[at]gmail[dot]comBaduku CollegeSeshadripuramTel: 23468113/114, 9449359156Email: samvada[at]gmail[dot]comRainwater Concepts Pvt LtdSahakarnagarCell: 9448379497Email: rainwatermasagi2000[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]inTechnology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE)MalleshwaramTel: 23315656, 9448491501Email: info[at]tide-india[dot]orgHinren Technologies Pvt Ltd.JP Nagar II PhaseTel: 66815120BWSSB Helpdesk numbers23341652, 23348848, 23348849 Note: Listing in this box does not constitute a recommendation by Citizen Matters in favour of any of these vendors. Please make…

Initiatives around Bengaluru spark some hope that progress can be made to cut down the city's carbon footprint. Bengaluru estimated to emit around 6.36 million metric tonnes of Carbon dioxide. In 2008, the South Asia chapter of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) came out with Carbon emission profiles for 54 cities in the region. Bangalore was one of the cities studied. ICLEI estimated that Bengaluru was emitting around 6.36 million teCO2 (metric tonnes of Carbon dioxide and equivalents) during the study period of 2007-2008. (This was the only published study Citizen Matters has found on carbon emissions…

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