Adar Poonawalla Clean City Initiative

World Earth Day is celebrated every year on 22 April and   reinforces a powerful global message—our everyday choices shape the future of our planet.The Earth Day 2026 theme is "Our Power, Our Planet," which emphasizes accelerating the global transition to renewable energy and leveraging collective grassroots action for environmental protection Among the most pressing environmental challenges today is poor waste management. Overflowing landfills, plastic pollution, and untreated waste are contaminating soil, water, and air, directly impacting ecosystems and human health. When waste is not properly handled, it releases harmful greenhouse gases and toxins, accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss. However, meaningful change begins at an individual level. One of the simplest yet most effective steps is waste segregation at source. By separating waste into dry (recyclables like paper, plastic, metal), wet (biodegradable waste like food scraps), and sanitary ...

  दरवर्षी जगभरात २२ एप्रिल हा जागतिक वसुंधरा दिन म्हणून साजरा केला जातो. २००९ मध्ये संयुक्त राष्ट्र पर्यावरण कार्यक्रमाने मंजूर केलेल्या ठरावानुसार हा दिवस इंटरनॅशनल मदर अर्थ डे  ( https://www.unep.org/events/ un-day/international-mother- earth-day-2025 ) म्हणून घोषित करण्यात आला. ही पृथ्वी म्हणजे आपले एकमेव घर आहे, मात्र आता पृथ्वी गंभीर पर्यावरणीय आव्हानांना सामोरे जात आहे ज्याची तातडीने दखल घेणे गरजेचे आहे ही आठवण करून देणारा हा एक महत्वाचा दिवस आहे. आपली सुंदर पृथ्वी कोणाला याचा अनुभव घेण्यासाठी खूप दूर जाण्याची गरज नाही आहे. हे सौंदर्य आपल्या भोवताली आहे. हिरवळ आणि झाडाने भरलेले डोंगर असो किंवा डोंगरावरून वाहणारे पाणी असो, रंगीबेरंगी फुले, घनदाट जंगल असो किंवा मुक्तपणे वाहणारी नदी आणि विविध परिसंस्था व समुद्री जीवनाने भरलेला अथांग समुद्र असो किंवा आपल्याला  ताजेतवाने  स्पर्श देणारी मोकळ्या हवेची झुळूक असो,हे सारे निसर्गाची प्रत्येक निर्मिती दर्शवते.   पण त्याची आपण काय अवस्था केली आहे. . . मनुष्य म्हणून आपण आश्चर्यकारक प्रगती केली असली तरी पर्या...

Every year people around the world celebrate ‘Earth Day’ on 22 nd  April . The day was proclaimed as International Mother Earth Day ( https://www.unep.org/events/ un-day/international-mother- earth-day-2025 ) through a resolution adopted in 2009. It is a powerful reminder that this planet is the only home we have, but this home is faced with deepening environmental challenges that need to be addressed urgently.   What a beautiful Planet! One doesn’t’ need to travel far to experience this. It is just around us. Whether it is the hills with refreshing green cover and native trees, whether it is the water coming down the hills, colourful flowers, dense forests, whether it is the free-flowing river or the limitless oceans captivating the diverse ecosystems and marine life, whether it is the free flowing breeze that gives us the refreshing touch, every creation of the nature is a visual representation of its power and tranquillity.   But what have we done… As h...

We call our ‘Planet’ or ‘Earth’ as ‘ Mother Earth’ and for a reason. It is our home, it is because of which we are alive. Yet we have been so indifferent. We forgot to live in harmony with nature and kept on damaging it. Climate change, man-made changes to nature, deforestation accelerated the speed of destruction of the planet. The consequences of climate change has reached each and everybody on our planet.   The World Earth Day 2023 will be celebrated on 22 April. The theme every year underlines particular environmental concern. This year the theme is “ Invest in Our Planet ”. Garbage is one of the contributing factors to climate change. It also affects human health and overall aesthetics of the city. It is a major cause of land or soil pollution.  The pace of consumption of goods by human and the waste and garbage generated is so huge that many places on our earth are simply unable to manage the garbage properly resulting in compounding problems. Although the...