Bicycle ride
If your good old bicycle has been rusting in some nook and cranny of your home, then it’s time to get it out as Hopkins, the bicycle store in Bandra, is organising a ride today, World Environment Day. Show your green side even if it’s for a day. Hop on to your eco-friendly two -wheeler and cycle down the streets of Bandra, from KFC to Pali Hill, Carter Road to Bandstand. The ride is an amalgamation of art and environment as the riding group will be joined by some musicians. The ride starts at 9pm and will end at Gazebo restaurant with a live music event. The event is open to all with no registration charges. All you need to do is just be there with your bicycles!
Green wiccan
This is a tree plantation drive with a difference. Wiccan healers will kick-start a Go Green campaign at Anand Dalvi Garden opposite the Sion (W) BEST bus depot from 9am to noon. To plant a sapling, all you need to do is call on 6525 0328 to register free. The greening initiative will be conducted by qualified wiccan priestesses from the Earth Healing Temple of Global Wicca. Wiccans worship nature and through this event they will strive to give back to nature some positive energy and respect through spiritual and physical actions. In this event, the wiccan healers will combine prayer, intention, focus and plantation of saplings so that the earth gets some phenomenal positive energy.
Climatic touch
Climate Change and You and the community based Burhani Foundation is organising an exhibition and seminar at YB Chavan Auditorium, Nariman Point, from 3pm to 7.15pm. Addressing the audience will be noted experts like Jyoti Mhapsekar (founder president of the Stree Mukti Sanghatana), Rishi Agarwal (environmentalist), SS Shinde (disaster management cell) and Nandan Mungekar (architect and water conservation expert), who will discuss themes relating to climate change. They will touch upon a variety of issues that have a bearing on how climate change is affecting us and what we can do to prevent further damage to our environment. The issues are: disaster management, rainwater harvesting, eco-friendly architecture, role of wastepickers in impacting climate change through solid waste management as well as mangrove conservation. Entry to the event is free.
Reel effect
If you are an environment-conscious person and a movie buff then this weekend you don’t want to miss MovieMala. The film fest Save Gaia invites young enthusiasts on Saturday, June 5 to mark the occasion of World Environment Day. The festival will be held from 9:30am to 4:30pm at the Maharashtra Nature Park, Mahim, a location specifically selected for its ecological diversity.
The festival aims to bring to the fore critical environmental issues via short films. Save Gaia starts off with a short film competition where creative works expressing the environmental concerns of young filmmakers will be screened. The winners of this competition will be decided by the audience based on an interactive session with the filmmaker themselves. Contact: Rajashree Joshi, 98209 13662, 2407 9932
‘Fab’ulous workshop
Fabindia is organising an interactive workshop for children aged 8-13. A short film made by the Children’s Movement of Civic Awareness will be screened, covering environmental issues. Also, art educationist Shital Mehta will be conducting a collage-making workshop along with her architect and ecology consultant daughter Lahar. The focus of the workshop will be to make children aware about the different aspects of the environment — air, water and earth. Each group will first create works of art on how humans have damaged the environment, and will then destroy them. The idea is to let children understand how painful the act of destruction is — a thought-provoking experience. The workshop will be conducted on Saturday from 2pm to 4.30 pm. Entry is free,but registration is first-come-first-serve.
Contact: Shraddha 93226 76404
Go wild
This one is for all students who are concerned about the environment. KJ Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Vidyavihar has organised a wildlife photography exhibition by Yuwaraj Gurjar, a renowned wildlife photographer. The event, on the college premises, will be accompanied by keynote addresses by members of society who have been forerunners in environmental conservation. Gurjar has won many national awards, and some of his pictures have been selected among the best wildlife photos by Sanctuary Asia.
The Somaiya Trust commemorates World Environment Day each year to stimulate awareness of the environment and enhance attention and action towards various environmental issues among staff and students. The programme begins at 9am.
Clean Ghatkopar
Trains are the lifeline of the city and railway stations often bear the wear-and-tear of thousands of feet that walk on them daily. The Mumbai CSR Forum of NASSCOM Foundation will be cleaning up Ghatkopar railway station as their way of celebrating World Environment Day.
The clean-up drive is planned as the first campaign to sensitise citizens and railway passengers about the necessity and pressing need to take pride in our infrastructure. Ghatkopar station was selected due to its proximity to most participating IT-BPO companies. The two-hour clean-up drive will begin at 10am and will be carried out by over 100 volunteers from InfrasoftTech, Pangea3, Tata Consultancy Services, Tricom Information and Technology, WNS Global Services and Zenith Computers.
Contact: ranay@nasscomfoundation.org or 4218 0092
Each one, plant one
What would you do if you were stopped in your car and gently handed a sapling to plant? Bisleri is hoping that you would step out and accept the sapling, promising to plant it at your home or surroundings. In their second green initiative, Bisleri will be distributing 1,000 saplings to those travelling on the Western Express Highway through Andheri. Hundreds of Bisleri employees will be present at the Bisleri junction, Andheri, at all four corners with 1000 saplings in hand. They will interact with car owners and passersby to explain their initiative and hand over saplings to those who are interested in planting them back home.
Eco carnival
R U Recycling (RUR), an environment group, is back to remind Mumbaikars about going green. The Go Green awareness drive with a Hara Bhara Jhola Mela will be kicked off today, where RUR, along with its partners will showcase green home solutions like green gyaan, reusable cloth bags, eco-jewellery, eco-stationary and handmade paper products.
“We will have some eco-friendly products, roofing out of tetrapak, kids competition where prizes will be distributed for making objects of waste, skits, games and quiz,” said Monisha Narke, member, RUR.
The drive is expected to educate consumers about how to adopt sustainable solutions in their daily lives. On spot quiz, eco-kid games on waste, nature tattoo artists and prizes for children are part of the ‘Eco carnival’ that will be carried out specifically to educate children on eco-living.
Under its Go Green initiative, RUR will also be organising an Eco Carnival on June 5 and 26 at the Sahakari Bhandar, Prabhadevi, from 3pm till 7pm.
Collect n Win — you can bring your
empty Tetra Pak cartons and drop them off at the Sahakari Bhandar collection centres for recycling and winning exciting green gifts on the spot.
Best of Waste — exhibition of creative and innovative products made out of waste by children who will be awarded on June 26th at The Sahakari Bhandar, Ludo Mall, Prabhadevi. Contact: 2421 4601/06
Just on pedals
Show your support to green causes by keeping your vehicles away, at least for a day. Humanity Foundation is organising a Mega Cycle Rally to spread awareness on how cycling is beneficial to health and the environment. The rally will begin at 9am on Sunday from the Shahid Bhagat Singh ground, Kalachowki and will cover parts of south Mumbai. The rally will pass through Kalachowki, Lalbaug, Byculla, Sewree, Naigaon, Parel and Worli right upto Dadar. Participants should bring their own cycles and be at the grounds by 9am.
Contact: 90292 82482
Sweeping moves
The June heat may be killing, but that has not deterred the residents of Bandra to do their bit for the environment. Around 100 of them gathered at the Carter Road promenade to clean up the beach with their own hands as they dropped in for their late afternoon stroll. “Saturday is a holiday and there are too many programmes happening on that day. We thought we will be better if we do it a day early,” said Vinod Shetty, resident of Bandra and member, Acron Foundation (India), that initiated the idea and would be participating.
The group also roped in the American Centre, Mumbai and the local corporator, along with residents. “The idea was to help them in the clean-up drive. They first wanted to do Chimbai beach but that is way too dirty. So we decided to stick to Carter Road and arranged for a dumper for the garbage to be collected,” said Zakaria.
“The idea is to also create respect for people who clean up the beach. When people will pick up garbage with their own hands, they will realise what it takes to do the job as livelihood,” added Shetty.
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