Archive for the ‘Sapgreen Activities’ Category

Plant a tree today

Venugopal who works as a software engineer in Bangalore  was in Mysore on the weekend. He could have slept till late on Sunday morning but he decided to join us in planting a few trees. And that made a difference to the world.

You too can make a difference. Plant a tree today.


Grassroot work

After an initial burst of activity last year, things happened pretty slow at sapgreen. This year too, we made plans on Devaraj Urs Road, showed it to the corporation and got it approved too. However, the action was still not there. Opposition from some of the shop owners didn’t help things at all.
Somehow, certain good [...]


Devaraj Urs Road – Part 2

In order to get more inputs on the DD Urs Road tree planting plans, my business partner and friend, Suraj met someone who had already did this earlier. It seems that he is the one responsible for the few trees that exist on the road now. The road boasted of many more trees some years [...]


Devaraj Urs Road – Tree line Plans

Devaraj Urs Road is one of the most important roads in Mysore with one end of it touching the Mysore palace.

In spite of being the central road of Mysore and being the commercial center of the city, the road in terms of aesthetics does not score high. The road is planned with automobiles in mind [...]


Environment Day 2009 Updates

The day started pretty early at 6 AM in the morning with the planting of 6 saplings. It was done in a park close to Ashwin’s house since it was a week day and planting anywhere else would have taken considerably more time. Indian tulip, Cannon ball tree, tamarind, yellow cassia and bauhinia were planted. [...]