Soft drinks gave way to tender coconut water at Vista 2010, the annual business summit of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.
Taking a cue from the Copenhagen climate summit, the Indian Institute of Management- Bangalore (IIM-B), went green for Vista 2010, the three-day annual business summit of the institute that started on Friday.
The dignitaries invited for the summit were seen sipping tender coconut water instead of soft drinks and canned juice. They were ferried in Reva electric cars within the campus, and the organisers used recycled paper for making posters.
The B-school also took several measures to reduce power, water and paper consumption during the summit in an attempt to establish “green consciousness” on the campus.
The ‘Environment and Sustainable Society’ of the institute collaborated with Reva Electric and NextGen, an energy and environment management company, for this purpose. Moving away from the traditional method, the society members made 1,000 posters as invites for Vista 2010. “About 600 were created using recycled papers. Last year, we had printed over 2,100 invitation cards. Instead of sticking the posters everywhere, we used LCD monitors to inform students about the programme schedule and other related information. This further reduced the usage of paper,” said Vernon Fernandez, a member of the organising team.
In December 2009, IIM-B students created a group to work towards developing innovative ideas and measures for sustainable growth using environment-friendly methods. “This is an organised group formed to discuss green ideas for sustainable growth. It is one of its kind in the state, I believe,” said Dawn Thomas, a member of the group. “It is the first step towards our goal of attaining green self-sufficiency within 10 years,” he said. “We have also kept three types of garbage bins across the campus for wet, dry and paper wastes that will be generated during the summit. The waste collected will be sent for decomposition and recycling.”
These steps will help reduce emission by 30% during the summit.
“That means we have helped save 40 trees this year. By using electrical cars, we will be cutting down as much emission as generated by 10 flights between Bangalore and Mumbai. We will also save electricity by having every fifth event of the Vista in the open air,” said Abhishek Humbad, a founder member of NextGen, the brain behind the green initiatives.
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