Browsing Tag: Green

In 2015, Sikhs worldwide will be celebrating the 5th annual worldwide Sikh Vatavaran Diwas (Sikh Environment day) during the week of March 14th.

Gavin Fletcher, conservation team leader for environmental charity Groundwork Leicester, said: "You often see people who have lots of money invest in solar panels, but for a community to come together and pool their resources in this way is fantastic and a great example of what can be achieved.

Let’s make our religious processions cleaner. Let’s leave the streets cleaner and greener than before the Nagar Kirtan, so the holy procession is truly a blessing to everywhere it has passed through…

EcoSikh - Four Years of this incredible journey charts the progress of EcoSikh since 2009,....

This year, the amazing holiday will be celebrated by me by being green, doing something for Diwali, and spreading the message to others about how I'm contributing.

“Seva is only half done if we leave garbage behind processions, kirtan samagams or jagratas (religious prayer programmes), langars (free festival food) and chhabeels. We must take responsibility to clean up after religious, personal or public events,” said EcoAmritsar Chairman, Gunbir Singh.

Nanded, a Southern Indian city considered holy by the Sikhs, represented by the Takhat Hazoor Sahib committee, joined the Green Pilgrimage Network, making a commitment towards becoming eco-friendly.

During a recent meeting of five Takhats at Amritsar, the Singh Sahibans (the spiritual heads of the Sikh community) declared that Gurgaddi Diwas (coronation day ) of the 7th Sikh Guru, Guru Har Rai, should be celebrated as a Sikh Environment Day each year especially ‘in light of the rising global environmental crisis’.

As aged fingers reached down through the dirt to create space for young saplings, this group of Sikh elders revived a centuries old tradition of planting culturally important plants at historic Sikh sites.

Jathedar Sardar Kulwant Singh Ji, from Takhat Sri Hazur Sahib released a message for Sikh community to plant one tree on the occasion of Sikh Environment Day on March 14 as a token of love for Guru Har Rai Ji,..

The International Biodiversity Conference (CoP-11) (XI Conference of Parties), the biggest event ever to be held in independent India has created great impact on the Sikh community to protect biodiversity and ecosystem.

EcoSikh brought the two historical Sikh Pilgrim cities Sri Amritsar and Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded into this launch today at Hotel Katriya, Hyderabad.

“We find that most policies affecting indigenous peoples are designed without our participation,” Ojo says. “If this trend continues, it will lead to a vicious cycle of poverty and violence.” If this is how the new green economy is playing out on the ground, it is no wonder that it has sparked resistance.

EcoSikh will launch an international campaign for Eco-Amritsar 2017, a five year plan to mark city’s 440th anniversary with the goal of making it eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable.

It is a matter of proud for the all Amritsarites that Eco Sikh, a UN based organization, is launching an international campaign for a ‘Green Amritsar’ this week.

Through World Environment Day, the UN Environment Programme is able to personalize environmental issues and enable everyone to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.

Now the temple is using its religious influence and economic might to change the way energy is used here. Developing reserve forests around the temple to act as carbon sinks, the management has transformed the environment. They are promoting the use of sustainable technologies and hope to influence public opinion.

Meditation sparks idea for sustainable children's children line.

The Green Pilgrimage Network released a list of various efforts, pilgrims and pilgrim cities can make, such as choosing sustainable tourist agencies and travel arrangements, eating and drinking ethically, minimizing waste, and supporting work being done locally to help "green" the sacred destination.

The city of Amritsar will formally join the Green Pilgrim Cities Network, the first global network aimed at greening. A pilgrimage will be launched in Assisi, Italy, from October 31 to November 2, 2011.

The Sikh Five Year Plan is the next historic step in the Sikh communities' commitment to walk faithfully alongside the rest of Creation into a future which they believe they can make both better and greener

An opinion poll in 11 countries has produced what organisers term a "global mandate" for action on climate change.

Energy Crisis and Sikh Perspective by Gurmeet Kaur.