Tag: Community Ownership
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World Environment Day 2024
The theme for World Environment Day 2024 is ‘Land restoration, desertification and drought resilience,’ a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world. Keeping in tune with this year’s theme, a re-wilding programme was undertaken by the Cantonment Board, Station Headquarters, Madras Regimental Centre, and other units of the Wellington…
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Time to Reflect
As of tomorrow half a decade would have rolled by since Clean Coonoor and its volunteers, officials, and the general public, joined hands to take upon themselves the mammoth task of cleaning the middle stream of the Coonoor River. It would not be an overstatement to say that the whole venture would have been impossible,…
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World Cleanup Day 2021
It all began in the small northern European country of Estonia, in 2008, fifty-thousand people united to clean up the entire country in just five hours. On that day, a global bottom-up civic movement was born and spread like wildfire around the globe. This captured the imaginations of people worldwide, who were inspired to follow…
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Waltz of the Flowers at the Waste Management Park
31 March marks the end of the floral season in these hills, a two month period when parks and gardens of this hill station present a virtual kaleidoscope of the vivid pinks, reds, blues, and yellows of flowerbeds, contrasting with the verdant green of lawns and shrubberies. The essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson is known to…
