Every year as the World Environment Day approaches, a clamor for stricter green laws and regulations is heard across the globe. While laws are important, they are not enough to ensure environmental sustainability. We need to make care for environment a part of our value system.
All the ancient cultures around the world have honored Nature - plants, rivers, mountain and nature have always been revered. In India it was a part of the tradition to plant five trees for every tree that was...
In February 2013, a small group of volunteers from the Art of Living took up a project to revive the Kumudavati river on the outskirts of Bangalore, which had been dry for over four decades. I am very pleased to inform that the Lok Adalat of Karnataka High Court has recognized their good work and has instructed all the District Administrations of the state to replicate the project to rejuvenate water bodies.
Deforestation, sand mafia and unplanned development activities have polluted the rivers...