“There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew .”
Students of Gurugram Global Heights School visited the TERI GRAM RETREAT
on 26th August 2024 and witnessed the technology that can be used to
revolutionize the climate crisis and environmental issues threatening the whole
world. The research institute is actively involved in global environmental issues like
intelligent use of natural resources, climate change, air pollution and global
warming. The students visited a sustainable building, making of vermi-compost,
micro propagation technology for tissue culture, waste water management by root
zone and earth- air tunnel for natural air conditioner.
Nonetheless, they were apprised of alternate methods to conserve energy by using
natural method of connecting cool air from the inner recesses of the earth through an
air tunnel to keep a natural temperature of 25-26 degrees in the rooms substituting
the air conditioners. The Retreat is nothing less than a Green Revolution spread across a sprawling area
of 100 acres as it addresses the pertinent issues related to man made disasters in the
form of climate, soil & air deterioration by following the new innovative
methodologies and solutions like solar panels, rain water harvesting, planting trees
of better quality developed by tissue culture thus living up the future dream of
sustainability
This educational tour not only made the students learn more about the environment
but also about the efforts they can make themselves to help with the environmental
problems. Indeed this educational excursion taught them some ways to save nature
from further harm as it equipped them with new age solutions to redeem the
environmental solutions.