Environment

Today, if you walk along the Jakkur Lake premises, you will find many known and lesser-known medicinal herbs, aromatic shrubs, as well as rare and red-listed endemic trees lining the area, where community and conservation zones coexist.

A common trend being observed in the city is that families are now less keen to shell out money to purchase fireworks and crackers.

According to the residents, the harvesting facility has considerably reduced their dependence on Chennai Metrowater, and they even put the excess water from the sump to use by letting it out to soak pits using valves.

Eco-friendly fireworks are just as much fun, produce a lot less smoke and make colours more visible. The difference cannot be ignored.

“Generally, it takes more than five to ten years to get a patent. However, I am lucky to get it in a year."

Deeply in love with her adopted homeland, one went to jail during the Quit India movement. The other became a guardian of the Himalayas, devoting her life to protecting it.

Neo, Anamika’s son, was born about four years ago and that was when Anamika started thinking about the environment.

Plog.Run is an initiative spearheaded by a group of environmentally mindful individuals from the Garden City, who have teamed up with organisations like Go Native, Namma Nimma Cycle Foundation and Let’s Be The Change to make this initiative a success!

"While animal rights activists feel strongly against culling, it does not make a difference to conservation whether a tiger is packed off to a zoo or killed. In both cases, it is one tiger less in the wild."

While finding a substitute for a pesticide for sugarcane crop, he was working on some wax moth caterpillars and realised two things.