Welcome to Project GreenHands

Throughout the world dire warnings are being issued about the effects of human activity on the natural environment. Communities on every continent are experiencing the devastation of declining water quality, soil degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss. Project Greenhands (PGH), a grassroots ecological initiative established by Isha Foundation in Tamil Nadu, India, has grown out of deep concern for the global effects of deforestation and land degradation, and in particular, for the rapidly changing ecology of Tamil Nadu.

Drawing extensively on community involvement and large scale volunteer participation, the Project aims to plant 114 million trees state-wide - providing an additional 10% to the existing level of green cover in Tamil Nadu. Since its inception in 2004, PGH has successfully overseen the planting of more than 5 million trees by over one million people.

PGH is an action-driven organization that is committed to developing a hands-on approach that can be easily replicated in rural communities worldwide. Through its activities it aims to inspire people around the world to appreciate the true value of trees and the vital role that they play within human environments.

• Taking life into their own hands
  Monsoon Features - May, 2008
  What can break through our apparent immobilisation in the face of climate change? We are not documenting the demise of someone else's planet; we are walking eyes open into an uncertain future for our own. Does the lack of appropriate or logical action show us unwilling to comprehend the enormity of what we have created, or simply too overwhelmed by the scale of what we may need to do about it?...
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• Hand in Hand for a Greener City - Project GreenHands Chennai Schools Campaign 2007/2008
  Impressed by the successful concept of Project GreenHands’ campaigns, Standard Chartered Bank and Scope International have chosen Isha Foundation’s environmental outreach initiative as a partner to put their corporate responsibility into action...
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• Tree's Company
  DNA ME magazine - 04 May, 2008
  The recent Sapling Exhibition in Chennai has a message for you and Me: plant a tree and protect those we have...
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