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Plant those trees!

By ⋅ August 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve already posted this in Met­blogs, but I wanted to make a per­sonal appeal too. It’s about a lady called Janet who plants trees.

What you can do!
You can have a tree planted on someone’s behalf to com­mem­o­rate a birth­day, anniver­sary, cer­e­mony, or just another day you’re glad to be alive. Just for about 10o bucks, which I am sure all of us spend that amount with­out much thought.

So far she’s planted over 650 trees…She’s look­ing for peo­ple who can become mem­bers of her char­i­ta­ble trust and con­tribute 100 rupees per month.

She’s also try­ing to get in touch with com­pa­nies to see if the cor­po­rates can accom­mo­date her mis­sion — The Rajanet Yeg­nesh­waran Char­i­ta­ble Trust.

She plants trees any­where and every­where — side­walks, schools, churches, com­pany com­pounds, houses… If you know any place where there’s place for a tree, get in touch with Janet on 9845449703.

I’ve talked to Janet also and she said she would love more help, vol­un­teers, cor­po­rate spon­sor­ships for tree guards, so if you can help in some lit­tle way, please do!

Plan a tree

It’s a con­cern as to how our tree cover is deplet­ing all around us. We can’t stop trees being cut down to make way for big­ger roads and taller build­ings, but we can do our small lit­tle bit by plant­ing many more.

Discussion

11 Responses to “Plant those trees!”

  1. Can I make a post on this on my blog and link back to your post.

    Posted by Tanay | August 9, 2007, 1:27 pm

  2. @ tanay: yes, please!

    Posted by Anita | August 9, 2007, 4:37 pm

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    Posted by Renie | August 9, 2007, 11:20 pm

  4. Hello,

    We would like to do an inter­view with you about your blog for
    http://www.BlogInterviewer.com . We’d like to give you the oppor­tu­nity to
    give us some insight on the “per­son behind the blog.”

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    Posted by Mike Thomas | August 14, 2007, 8:23 am

  5. Anita ,

    Well what a good job Janet is doing . Regard­ing your ear­lier post — Hmmm its bet­ter to keep the place in mys­tery. I know its for a good cause — and there is few places like tat in my photo stream too, which even I dont feel like dis­clos­ing to all, but we do to some — WHO SHARE THE SAME PASSION as NATURE LOVERS DO :) I’m back after my vaca­tion in our lovely coun­try with some good snaps :)

    Posted by Vinod | August 14, 2007, 9:38 am

  6. Hi Anita,
    A post which makes every­one of us to Think.

    Bet­ter Keep the name of that place undis­closed. That post and this one are 2 sep­a­rate posts but unknow­ingly gets linked!!!

    Posted by Honey Bee | August 14, 2007, 3:16 pm

  7. Inter­est­ing!

    Posted by poupee97 | August 17, 2007, 3:11 pm

  8. Hi,
    Thanks for this — I’m plant­ing nine trees in my Mom’s mem­ory.
    – Sonali

    Posted by Sonali Bhatia | August 21, 2007, 10:56 am

  9. Hi Anita,

    I got to your page via a friend’s page.

    Could I link this page to the Ban­ga­lore­ans com­mu­nity on Face­book? Would like to spread the word.

    Posted by Christina | September 3, 2007, 8:20 am

  10. this pix makes quite a sense…what an easy could not convey,your pix does so easily.

    Posted by san | September 3, 2007, 8:16 pm

  11. Thanks for the permission.

    Posted by Christina | September 4, 2007, 9:23 pm

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