Wipro Earthian - The sustainability program for students

When you visit a new place, the first thing that you notice is the neatness and hygiene factor. Earth is actually very beautiful and some countries have done an exceptional job to preserve and even better it. India has so many issues that neatness is the last thing in our agenda.

While we live, trying to make the best out of this life, lets also try and give back something back to the society. I've chosen cleanliness and energy as my social responsibility areas. I will ensure that I do my best to keep my area clean by not littering, by advising fellow citizens. I will also ensure that I reduce my carbon footprint by reducing the usage of my private vehicle, walking and cycling more and also by using by using public transport like buses and trains more than private vehicles.

If you feel strongly like the way I do, Wipro is giving an opportunity to present your thoughts and ideas in a whitepaper which if selected, whitepaper stands to earn Rs. 2 lakhs. Your photographs will be published across Wipro network on mails and your work along with your photos will be published in this blog site.

Reducing carbon foot print and neatness is what I chose. You can also chose any topic of your choice from the following and submit your entries.



Here's an example of what all we can do:

- If you have your own home, try and build a water harvesting set-up so that dependence on water from government reduces. This, on the long run, will reduce your water bill.
- Use solar water heater, which not only saves power but also electricity bills over a 7 year period.
- Don't throw garbage or litter on the streets, they are ugly to look at, and they clog the drains meant for water and then the area floods. Government then spends money to clean this up. Whose is this money? Yours and mine... Advise anyone throwing litter on the streets not to. It also affects tourists whose most common complaint is not India's poverty but India's complete disregard to neatness and hygiene.

Watch this video to understand how human greed and want for things have put so much pressure on other living creations and the planet. If don't mend our ways, forget the planet's sustainability, our own existence will be under threat!

To register: India needs to be at the vanguard and to act as a role model to demonstrate how it is possible to grow national wealth in a sustainable manner. For India, the future adults are the only hope and you are that only hope. Future generations of children and young adults, are the key stakeholders who will be impacted by what is happening. The nature of these problems requires completely new ways of thinking, sensibilities, changes in behaviors and responses. They require interdisciplinary subject knowledge and a radical change in approaching the problems. Educational institutions are ecosystems where this can flower.
'earthian Sustainability Program' is designed to act as a catalyst for fostering excellence in sustainability thinking and doing amongst young people. The annual awards program is a first step towards a deeper engagement with children and young adults in schools and colleges.