| Publication: The Times Of India Bangalore; | Date: Jun 5, 2010; | Section: Times City; | Page: 4 |
SWITCH TO CFL, SAVE ENERGY
What Bangaloreans are doing on Green Day
DELL
Dell has been the front-runner in green initiatives and environment efforts. Innovative ways of conserving the environment like packaging its netbooks, five-inch Streak tablet and Inspiron laptops in cushions made from responsibly sourced bamboo are among its many initiatives. Dell is the first company to offer compostable packaging. It offers free recycling of old PCs given free of cost by consumers and in return gives discount coupons of Rs 1,000 on their next purchase of any Dell item. ‘Dell Go Green Challenge’ is an online campaign to raise awareness and community involvement in green initiatives in India.
3i Infotech
3i Infotech Consumer Services Limited is working towards cutting down the consumption of paper by the use of disruptive technology tools. Last year, papers equivalent to over 75,000 trees were consumed for income tax filings by 29 million individual tax return filers, even though there are facilities for e-filing. This prompted 3i Infotech Consumer Services Ltd. (a subsidiary of 3i Infotech) to venture into consumer technology and help save trees.
Green carnival at BIA
Marcel Hungerbuehler, president of BIAL, on Friday inaugurated a five-day event termed Hasiru Habba (green carnival) in support of the World Environment Day. It aims at spreading the importance of the 4 Rs - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Re-grow — through fun and interaction. It is being held from 9 am to 9 pm from June 4-8 at the curbside of the terminal building.
Accenture
Accenture, with TERI, has launched Environment Sustainability Project. The year-long project aims at building environmental responsibility among college students across seven cities: Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Noida and Pune. Accenture employees, along with 20 students from each of these colleges, will work with TERI and its partner NGOs to devise ways of improving the environmental status of local communities. College students will team with employees in a ‘planta-tree’ campaign. Accenture will also conduct an ‘eco-challenge’ - providing an employee carbon calculator, to understand and reduce their carbon footprint.
Wipro
The week-long Environment Day celebrations will culminate in a cycle-to-work campaign in collaboration with Greenpeace and an initiative to conduct free vehicle emission checks for its employees. Greenpeace will run a series of activities by setting up kiosks across Wipro campuses. These kiosks will disseminate information on topics like global warming and display videos and share tips.
Film festival
Five films on climate change and environment made under the UK Environment Film Fellowships 2010 will be previewed on Saturday in association with the National Geographic Channel.
ITC Royal Gardenia
Royal Gardenia is celebrating the World Environment Week by inaugurating the hotel’s solar concentrators, a green march and cyclathon to propagate the message ‘Save Our Planet Earth’, gifting saplings to corporate houses and even inaugurating a traffic island opposite the hotel.
Taj groups
Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces presents EARTH (Environment Awareness & Renewal at Taj Hotels), a project towards energy conservation and environmental management. Sapling plantation drive within the hotel premises by guests, food to be cooked from natural organic vegetables and go cycling are also planned.
Ness Technologies
Ness Technologies will run sustainable campaigns throughout June to reduce carbon footprints. The company plans to switch off all the lights in the common area the whole year. Tree plantation, emission testing and waste segregation will also be conducted.
In the image above - Disciples of Sarv Shri Ashutosh Maharaj Ji
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