About GGSE – Go Green Save Earth Initiative

Who We Are

A youth movement for a greener Earth

Go Green Save Earth, a group of youngsters joined together to conduct environment protection awareness campaigns and to promote green products. Awareness for planting saplings, distributing seeds and educating the need for environment protection are some amongst the major activities of Team GGSE.

Since 2013, GGSE has been conducting awareness campaigns in schools, colleges, corporates and to the public. In January 2014 the team registered as ‘Go Green Save Earth’ Swayam Sahayaka Sangom under the Charitable Societies Act. The team consists of 16 executive members and not less than 500 green club members.

Trees are spell; water is magic. So just water it to create a magic spell.

At a glance

Registration No.: TVM/TC/72/2014
Established: Earth Day, 2013
Registered: January 2014 (SHG)
Executive Members: 16
Green Club Members: 500+
Base: Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala

Our Vision

Developing the culture of going green

The Vedas stress the need for protection and development of forests. Human beings have to safeguard the trees. The Vedas assert that the plants and trees are verily the treasures for generations. The environment is being polluted day by day due to industrial development, increase in population, vehicles and many other unavoidable factors — factors that cannot be controlled by humans as they are a prerequisite for socio-economic development.

Trees are cut down for industrial development, social infrastructure and many other common developments. Another adverse factor is climatic change and the rise in sea level. Before letting the situation get even worse, afforestation needs to be started. It can be handled only by advocating youngsters to plant saplings and thereby develop a green culture — a culture that will definitely help future generations bring out a pollution-free, green environment.

GGSE green campaign stall at the Technopark campus

40,000+ youngsters reached

Project Background

Powered by youngsters

GGSE aims to promote green products and to create awareness among the youth as well as the public for protecting the environment. Every activity done by GGSE has received a high response from the public, especially youngsters. Technopark, the IT hub which holds more than 40,000 youngsters, was the main stage for all our environmental campaigns.

A Facebook page was created in the name Go Green Save Earth (facebook.com/GGSEShare). The response was unbelievable, and suggestions from people around the world were taken as input for our activities. Later, GGSE started its website www.ggse.in to make people part of the environmental activities we organize. ‘Plant a tree and save the world’ is one of the titles of GGSE.

Awareness Campaigns Conducted

Theme-based campaigns since 2013

Most of the awareness campaigns organized by GGSE are theme based. A few of them are listed here.

Earth Day 2013
Environmental Day 2013
Earth Hour 2014
Earth Day 2014
Seminar on Organic Farming 2014
Medical Camps against Smoking 2014
Environmental Day 2014
Clean My City Campaign 2014

5,000

Trees Planted & Distributed

1,500

Seeds Distributed

500

Plastic Bags Replaced

16

Executive Members

Glimpses

Moments from our green journey

Sapling drives, clean-up campaigns, seminars and green-club activities across Trivandrum.