February 2018

Dear Friends,
This month, we shall talk about the Planetary Boundaries. We started this series with a reference to the Anthropocene, the age of the human beings, when we, humans have occupied the driver’s seat, and gained enough capabilities to steer the future course of Mother Earth. Next, we discussed the evolution of life on Earth. The continuation of these very life forms is threatened now, and the scientists posed a question to Mother Earth, “How far can we push you, O Mother Earth, beyond which, you would change irreversibly into completely new states, unknown to us, and to all forms of life that flourished in the Holocene period?”

i. Picking Litter Campaign
Picking Litter Campaign atDhanushkodi(Arichalmunai)conducted on 9.02.2018,where in 50Volunteers participated from Gandhigram university . .

ii. SHG Programme
SHG Awareness programmewas conducted at Anna Nagar on 19.02.18 wherein 25 membersparticipated.

M. Subramanian
Project Officer
C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre
Chennai
Habitat
Deciduous trees, rise up to 30 m high; bole buttressed; bark 8-10 mm thick, surface reddish-brown or yellowish-brown smooth, coarsely flaky, fibrous; blaze creamy pink; latex milky; young shoots and twigs finely white hairy, soon glabrous; branch-lets 1.5-3 mm thick, puberulous.

This is originally Panasa Teertham and Panasa is one of the Vanara army head of Sukreeva. He created this Teertham and one who takes bath in this Teertham attains immortality. This Teertham creates a wakeful nature in one self who baths in the Teertham. Over the years the name has got converted to Panacha Teertham colloquially.

Regular yogasana classes in the morning and Hindi and English classes in the evening were conducted. Weekly yoga session for Coast guards also continued.
Apart from regular activities following events took place.

1. Sister Niveditha Birthday Celebration

On February 2, 2018 Sister Niveditha’s 150th Birthday Celebration was organized at Sri Parvathavarthini Amman Girls Higher Secondary School. During the function, Shri.Sridhar, Coordinator of Green Rameswaram project was felicitated with “WILL Medals of National Records” for writing the longest poem about Rameswaram using Kadaimadakku Technique which is unique in Tamil Literature.

GREEN NEWSLETTER (Tamil)
SRI PARVATHAVARTHINIAMMAN GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL,RAMESWARAM. Issue No.4 February 2018