Tag: Community Ownership
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Earth Day 2025
Earth Day was first proposed a day to honour the Earth and the concept of peace and later as an environmental teach-in for the United States. By the 1990s Earth Day had mobilised around 200 million people in 141 countries and had lifted the status of environmental issues onto the world stage. This years theme…
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Unforeseen Contingency
At times ‘Presumption’ overshoots and ‘Diffidence’ falls short is a well known quote by Golda Meir. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live – but in our presumption we assumed…
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World Water Day 2025
To mark this year’s World Water Day, a preliminary assessment on cleaning a part of the stream which flows through Brooklands was made by Bharathiya Jain Sanghatana in association with ROBAC. Clean Coonoor will be offering technical support to the operations which will commence shortly. The theme of World Water Day 2025 according to the…
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Encouraging the Embrace of Diversity
A Neighbourhood Cleanup was organised by the Residents of Brooklands Association of Coonoor (ROBAC) in which more than 30 residents participated in cleaning up the surroundings. They were joined by employees and volunteers of Clean Coonoor and the sanitation staff of the Municipality. Today’s cleanup yielded 1090 kg of waste chiefly dumped into wayside bushes…
