Communicating at large
Posters, banners and T-shirts have been printed with eco
message. The children wear these T-shirts during all their
visits for the eco work.
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Nidhi, Ankush, Guruprasad, Safdhar,
Raymond making banners.
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Street March
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Harshit creating Banners
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Nidhi creating Banners
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Poster prepared by Little Ecoites
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SAY NO TO POLYBAGS
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Street Play
Street play was performed on three locations in the heart of the city on the occasion of the
Earth Day. There was a very encouraging response and over
200 people watched the performance at each of the locations. After each play, we distributed cloth
bags to the crowd on complimentary basis. We repeated the performance on April 27
2002 at the Vitan superstore on a busy square.
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Mass communication - newspaper
The work being done by Little Eco Friends has received good coverage in The Times of India, the newspaper with largest circulation in Bangalore and also in The Hindu another leading newspaper of South India.
(Read More..)
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The Hindu writes about Little Eco Friends
More Press
clippings
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Report in The Times of India,
Bangalore Edition 15th
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Eco stamps
We browsed the Internet for stamps on pollution control and promoting healthy environment. We have not come across any stamps against use of polybags and have written to the President of India and to the Post Master General to consider issuing
stamps) on the subject.
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Stamp on Environment browsed on Internet
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World Environment Day 2000 Green oasis
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Green Police Station
We met the Police Commissioner of Bangalore city and his support to transform the police stations to `Green Police
Station'. (Read More..).
They would act as centers where people could leave their old clothes for us to collect and also serve as outlets from where
people could collect cloth bags.
Banners and posters can be put up in the police stations and paint eco messages on the
proposed green police squad vehicles creating the first police force in the world to run such a program.
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Little Ecoites with
Police Commissioner Mr. Sangliana
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Networking NGOs
A large NGO, Sahaas, has approached us and proposed to distribute 8000 cloth
bags through the counters of Nilgiris. Little Eco Friends have become
members of Eco Watch, a large NGO, working in the field of urban forestry and are its youngest members.
Meljol, an NGO
working with children helped us to plan our street play.
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Recognition from Government authorities
The Pollution Control Board has invited Rajesh Agrawal, our guide, to inaugurate the program of surveying 1000 shops in each of the 5 regions of the city to determine the extent and quality of the
polybags being used by them.
Army marketing outlets
We are in discussion with Indian Army Station in Bangalore to promote use of eco friendly bags in
their marketing outlets for the army men. If successful, the program will be replicated.
Polybag Free Bangalore
Pollution Control Board have sponsored another 100 T-shirts, 100 caps, 2000 new cloth bags and 1000 paper bags with eco messages. KSPCB has also agreed to support a seminar on the subject. With the support of KSPCB and other government/ town authorities, we are committed to making Bangalore a Polybag Free Zone in 3 years.
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