Event

Goa Sudharop observed this year 2007 as the Year of the Environment. We realized the paramount need of caring and conserving our vital and fragile environment which is exacerbated with unprecedented global warming with all its devastating consequences like tsunami tidal waves, melting of glaciers, rise in sea levels, droughts, heat waves, famines, epidemics, etc. We thought of doing something in our modest way in the face of this crisis by creating awareness and urgency for conservation of the environment at the very grassroots level by engaging and involving schools, students and teachers all over Goa. Accordingly we conducted during the year several programmes like power point presentations on topics like pollution, garbage management, bio-diversity, wildlife, man-animal conflict etc. for school-groups in different places in association with Green Cross NGO, inter-school multiple environmental competitions in association with Vidy Vikas Academy, Margao, a rain water harvesting workshop for high school teachers in association with Botanical Society of Goa, sponsored the website of cartoonist Alexyz on the environmental theme, prepared Goa-specific environmental standards for the building industry in association with environmentalist Eric Pinto, and promoted several other private initiatives with a view to create the much needed environmental awareness with a stress on urgent conservation measures.