Educational Trip to TeriGram
“There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew .” Students of Gurugram Global Heights School visited the TERI GRAM RETREATon 26th August 2024 and witnessed the technology that can be used torevolutionize the climate crisis and environmental issues threatening the wholeworld. The research institute is actively involved in global environmental issues likeintelligent use of natural resources, climate change, air pollution and globalwarming. The students visited a sustainable building, making of vermi-compost,micro propagation technology for tissue culture, waste water management by rootzone and earth- air tunnel for natural air conditioner. Nonetheless, they were apprised of alternate methods to conserve energy by usingnatural method of connecting cool air from the inner recesses of the earth through anair tunnel to keep a natural temperature of 25-26 degrees in the rooms substitutingthe air conditioners. The Retreat is nothing less than a Green Revolution spread across a sprawling areaof 100 acres as it addresses the pertinent issues related to man made disasters in theform of climate, soil & air deterioration by following the new innovativemethodologies and solutions like solar panels, rain water harvesting, planting treesof better quality developed by tissue culture thus living up the future dream ofsustainability This educational tour not only made the students learn more about the environmentbut also about the efforts they can make themselves to help with the environmentalproblems. Indeed this educational excursion taught them some ways to save naturefrom further harm as it equipped them with new age solutions to redeem theenvironmental solutions.