The Green Chennai initiative...

Concept Paper
Definition of Green Chennai:
“Green Chennai” is forum of like minded people from all walks of life who would deliberate on sustainable ideas and follow up with actions. The forum will strive to promote green and sustainable concepts for the public at large.

The Green Chennai will formulate tasks for making Chennai – a green city and accordingly act to spread knowledge and awareness for and about making a green Chennai – a place working it’s way towards sustainable life aspects. This will be a platform to share ideas, knowledge and create a way for green lifestyle. This forum will interact and partner with various forums having similar ideas to exchange knowledge and concepts so as to reach the objective of making Chennai a green city at the earliest.

The Green Chennai will strive to interact with corporate, organizations, Govt of Tamil Nadu; various NGO’s to promote the concept. It will adopt various innovative methods and technologies to arrive at maximum benefits as well make it scalable to spread the concept to various other cities in India and abroad.

Vision:
To make Chennai totally a green city by 2015

Objective:
To create awareness on
i. Agents of creating Pollution
ii. Lowering energy consumption
iii. Reducing Global Warming causes
iv. Being green

Reaching out to the Key stake holders like
i. Corporate and Employees
ii. Manufacturers
iii. Industries
iv. Infrastructure developers
v. NGO’s
vi. Research Partners
vii. External Technical Bodies like Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)
viii. Concerned Public
Facing Key Stake Holders through
i. Seminars
ii. Discussion Forums
iii. Activities like Green Citizen Concept (Practical Day to Day activity that one individual, employee or any responsible public can do on their own)
iv. Institutionalized Competition like Essay, Music, Poetry etc among colleges
v. Popular Events like Rock Show, Music concerts etc
vi. Internet
vii. Blogging
viii. Email Campaigns etc

Virtual Citizen