http://www.sapgreen.com synonym for a billion trees Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:35:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The community page at Sapgreen is under construction now. This will be a place for all of you who are interested in trees and environment in general to write articles, share thoughts and even plan activities among yourselves. Every one of you would definitely have an idea for making the ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/sapgreen-community-plans After 7 months of action, we had learnt a great deal of things. How people value trees and how a few detest them!! How important trees are yet how less importance it gets!! How varied are trees from each other and how monoculture is being promoted by the country!! The ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/sapgreen-is-new This article again is a remnant of the old website. The concept of carbon offsets we thought could be explained easily via a few writeups. However, we learnt a valuable lesson that it is a far more complex task than we first thought it was. In fact, a friend had ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/carbon-footprint-calculate-reduce-offset In the older version of our website, we had this section for corporate action. The idea behind this page was that a page meant for corporate action needs to be written in "corporate style" :) However, we now have understood that there is no such thing as "corporate style". The only ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/corporate-action-an-earlier-writeup In the earlier version of our website, we had a section explaining the whole concept of how "gift a tree" works. Here is a reproduction of that article. However, since the working model is going through a major change, the old article may not reflect the current operations of Sapgreen. Gifting ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/the-original-idea-gift-a-tree 1. Our First News Item: "From software to saplings", Deccan Herald, Saturday, April 5, 2008 Ashwin Upadhyay and Anilkumar, quit their plum jobs with an MNC in the Capital and have returned to Mysore with the aim of making it greener........ 2. News covering our inauguration program: "Sapgreen activities begin tomorrow", ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/old-newspaper-items In our quest to know more about the rural market for solar power, we headed towards villages around HD-Kote which is about 45kms from Mysore. We understood that rural market in India cannot be generalized using the statistics that big time marketers use. Each village is different from the next ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/rural-solar-lighting-market-survey-part-1 Finally, Google Maps has Mysore in high resolution. This should be useful in a lot of different ways. The satellite images however are at least an year old. This I can tell from construction activities captured by the satellite images. Example use: We can mark locations where we planted trees directly ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/google-maps SELCO: The company brought light to 75,000 homes since 1995 making profitable business at the same time. It is difficult to even imagine that a product worth Rs.18,000 could be sold to a household with less than Rs.50 per day income. Yet, the company did. Today, they have brought extra ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/can-be-done Since a few weeks, the sapgreen page and blog looked inactive. The main reason was that there were no new stories to tell. The trees are being planted on a regular basis. The number is one short of 250 now. The rains which initially eluded us have come back. ... http://www.sapgreen.com/2008/led