Environment
As educators and technologists, we believe that education and appropriate technologies have the power to change the world. Our Managing Director, Prof. Mukerji, is Vice-Chairman of the Centre of Science for Villages (CSV), our official partner for the environment. He is also on Maharashtra's Eco-Tourism Development Board, appointed by the leadership of the state. Community leaders Salim, Mukesh, and Jitesh were invited to go to CSV in Wardha, and they learned first-hand various ecologically-friendly technologies to adopt in our community, including solar power, biogas, sun-baked air-pocket (thermal) bricks, eco-architectural design, and water harvesting and filtration.
In fact, beyond promoting eco-technologies in our community and beyond, we use filtered water and solar energy at our Usha Sewing Schools -- clean energy for community growth! 80% of diseases are water-borne, and preventing illness is even more powerful than medical treatment. Our teachers and students enjoy good health and productivity, plus our medical camps see fewer cases of water-borne illnesses.
Environment
As educators and technologists, we believe that education and appropriate technologies have the power to change the world. Our Managing Director, Prof. Mukerji, is Vice-Chairman of the Centre of Science for Villages (CSV), our official partner for the environment. He is also on Maharashtra's Eco-Tourism Development Board, appointed by the leadership of the state. Community leaders Salim, Mukesh, and Jitesh were invited to go to CSV in Wardha, and they learned first-hand various ecologically-friendly technologies to adopt in our community, including solar power, biogas, sun-baked air-pocket (thermal) bricks, eco-architectural design, and water harvesting and filtration.
In fact, beyond promoting eco-technologies in our community and beyond, we use filtered water and solar energy at our Usha Sewing Schools -- clean energy for community growth! 80% of diseases are water-borne, and preventing illness is even more powerful than medical treatment. Our teachers and students enjoy good health and productivity, plus our medical camps see fewer cases of water-borne illnesses.
Our first whitepaper made waves in Parlaiment with leaders who (like us!) want to promote economic development with ecological nurturing. Our second paper opened public discussion on what we as a nation should be doing with our natural assets, for the benefit of all. We've republished these two classics on medium.com, plus a strategy update that explains our Golden Triangle ecodevelopment model:
After many dreams and discussions with government officials about Kanha's amazing potential for night safaris and a 12-month business season, we are proud to announce a change in public policy. Part of the park (at the Kanha-Kisli gate) is now open year-round. That's good news for tourists and for the community that supports them.
Government action is important, but nothing secures the future of a nation or the planet like raising awareness in tomorrow’s leaders — children. ITC’s Packing and Printing business graciously awarded us space on the back of the blank school workbooks they produce. We placed pictures of tigers, links to our website, and fast facts on the tiger and environment on the cover of each book. Thanks to their generosity, we’ve raised environmental awareness in 2.5 million children.
We applaud the achievements of our Non-Executive Director Dr. Ghislaine Bouillet-Cordonnier, Esq. and her team at her founded-organization, Albatross (www.albatrossglobal.org). The organization provides free education on sustainable development and has trained more than 13,000 children in China, Brazil and France. It has distributed more than 45,000 Albatross-developed books and has won in December 2019 the Innovation Trophee of Franco-China Committee of MEDEF! They’ve also developed mobile apps (scientific and multilingual) with CNRS ( National Research Center of France). You can test the first applications about Water purification in French, English, and Chinese at https://projet.liris.cnrs.fr/SAPHIR/.
