AMBIKA GHUGE
University Sustainability Initiative: To include creation of a grassroot movement in her University, popularising the concept of ‘Eco-preneurship', encouraging research and innovation in the field of environment, reduction of the University's ecological footprint and in general work towards increased corporate and government responsibility

ROSELIN DEY
Green Vihar: This project will be implemented in a residential complex and will focus on conducting a carbon footprint study of 121 families in the complex, generating awareness among residents by workshop(s) and showcasing eco friendly and affordable lifestyle products

RAGHAV MIMANI
Road trips for Change – Finding Sustainable Communities: To identify model sustainable communities, travel there and try incorporating their ideas into the normal way of life. Spread the modified ideas and encourage people to adopt them in their daily lives

MONISHA VEMAVARAPU
“Designer” school uniforms for underprivileged school children: To create a network between apparel design Institutes and NGO’s where the garments designed by students of the institute for assignments can be utilised as uniforms in schools for underprivileged children

SHREENITA GHOSH
Friends & Foes of Gaia, the Goddess Earth: To spread awareness about saving the environment as well as start a surveillance mechanism with the help of mass media

PUNEET KHURMI
Jammu ka bhavishya sunahara banao tawi bachao..!!!: To preserve the river Tawi, make it pollution free and introduce measures to control rising temperatures

VARUN ARORA
Sustainovation: Conduct green business plan competitions providing the winners some incentive and a chance to have a conference with leading environmentalist and people from leading environment NGO's, eventually motivating them to reach out to more people

SUBHAV SINHA
Personalised Mover - Mitra: To drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and substantially increase energy efficiency by replacing short-distance single-occupancy car journeys. Also to save revenue by shifting from costly fossil fuel options and use more eco-friendly options like electricity

PREETI VENKATRAM
Green Your Campus: Sensitisation towards the environment, by changing attitudes and practices of students and faculty and promoting an eco-friendly model that can be sustained and replicated for lasting positive impacts

RUCHIKA POKHRIYAL
Save Environment: it’s now or never: We have very less time at our disposal. We need to catch the moment and turn it into action. Bringing together young minds and spreading awareness about the upcoming environmental calamity and its probable solutions is the prime aim

AKANKSHA GULIA
The Green Blueprint For My Earth - Making MCD School Children Earth Saviors: Overall development of MCD School Children ensuring their contribution towards environment and thus combating climate change by initiatives like minimising the use of paper and recycling

PRAGYA GUPTA
Green Buildings: To draw a blueprint for conversion of normal buildings into green buildings. For this a basic green building model is designed with its pros and cons and later on, the existing building is compared to the green building

PRIYANKA PANDE
Eco friendly Bags: The project is aimed to give people alternatives to plastic and paper bags which are cheap and usable and brings a significant reduction in the use of plastic bags

ARUN KRISHNAMURTHY
Lake/River Wetland Conservation: To restore urban lakes of Chennai and Hyderabad to their optimum capacity and condition. This will further provide for a bio diversity hot spot within the urban nerve centre

PRACHI KUMAR
‘Pollution under Control’ (‘PUC)’ :Exploring the challenges in implementing ‘Pollution under Control’ (‘PUC’ ) in Pune city in India. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) Parivesh indicates vehicles as one of the predominant sources of air pollution. The aim is to identify gaps in knowledge among stakeholders regarding PUC in the industrial city of Pune and provide recommendations to the state CPCB

ABHISHEK ACHARYYA
India's Largest, India’s Greenest: To create awareness about how climate change is affecting us and how we as an individual and in a community fight it. To work for building an eco-friendly culture in the college and in the town. And to help others replicate the same

BIPASHYEE GHOSH
Voice of Within (VOW) - Vow of leading the world to sustainable lifestyle: This project mainly targets to involve socially challenged children in various forms of activities to reach and repair “no conceptions” as well as “misconceptions” prevailing among the general mass of people regarding climate change

ABAN UPADHYAY
Rural solution to green: Build association of small tea gardens to have positive impact on environment by educating farmers to understand need for saving land from soil erosion and deforstation, persuade them to opt tea growing to reduce climatic changes such as extreme weather conditions, sudden flood or drought, integrate land owners to develop tea co-operatives to achieve sustainable growth of green coverage and economic development of village and educate use of organic manure to make tea gardens self-reliant

AMITAVA CHAKRABORTY
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle: To spread consciousness about effective waste management and benefits of using energy efficient devices by increasing awareness about eco-friendly methods, reduce usage of plastics, talk to people about using energy efficient devices like CFLs etc., tree plantation and increase volunteer strength for carrying out the project in a cascading manner

ARUP MONDAL
Clean Your Own Waste: To make residential complexes eco-friendly by arresting methane from biodegradable kitchen and vegetable wastes, at source, substituting LPG and diesel, to some extent, by biogas and reducing the burden on local municipalities

PRATEEK ROY CHOUDHARY
Change in attitude rather than change in climate: To create awareness about vehicular air and sound pollution, proactively change commuters’ careless attitude and unsustainable travel habits and measure the impact of the campaign

TULIKA BHATTACHARYA
Reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and harmful pesticides and increasing the use of low budget bio-fertilizers and Integrated Pest Management in Debagram and neighboring villages

BIPASHA LAKRA
Clean Mahananda: Mobilising young people and spreading awareness about recycling waste that is disposed on the banks of the river. Take initiatives to discourage burning of the garbage and disposing of garbage on the banks of Mahananda

PURBANI DAS
Paint the world Green: To create awareness amongst people to conserve energy and control pollution as far as possible using graffiti painting on public walls, containing messages and illustrations that would create awareness and by providing each locality with demarcated bins for degradable and non degradable wastages

VINEET CHHATRIA:
Life In Our Green Hands: Increasing the awareness of Formidable dangers to mankind by denudation of the rich forest cover and Implantation of Trees beginning from Various Societies,Institutions to Streets and Slums

SANDEEP SADHUKHAN
Re-Sunder: Sundervan: To prevent further destruction of the Sundervan ecosystem by shifting occupations of the native people which harms this ecosystem to a new alternative profession

SOURAN CHATTERJEE
Plastic Recycling: We cannot eliminate plastic altogether, rather we can use it and commit to recycling. This project proposes a way to scale up an existing plant for plastic recycling without creating any additional pollution

KUSHAL SUHASARIA
Sensitizing and creating awareness in young minds with respect to climate change and the everlasting impacts it has on people and our daily lives by giving students an opportunity to strengthen the cause themselves by creating awareness about climate change in remote locations as we travel across the country

DIGVIJAY SINGH
The different  strands of his project includes, (1) Iron Fertilization and Fish Farming in Sundarbans Delta to promote the growth of phytoplankton (2) Bamboo Plantation (3) Rainwater Harvesting (4) Waste Management and Recycling (5) Free Market Environmentalism Movement in East India and (6) Creation of awareness among school children

KARAN SHAH
Project Voyage: To create awareness and encourage people regarding the issues of climate change and relevant issues through screening of the movie, interactive sessions with experts and other activities like debate, quiz, poster making, essay writing, plant a tree campaign, informative seminars etc.

PRACHI TELANG
To make mirrors and glass articles that will be used to create multicoloured patterns for the purpose of lighting. This project is focused at reduction in energy consumption in hotels for ambience. Almost all hotels have numerous light arrangements for creating the ambience. We are trying to reduce this energy consumption by using optical arrangements instead of an additional bulb

PRITI RAJAGOPALAN
To compost materials collected in compost bins for use in mulch and fertilizers. This project will be initiated in educational institutions, schools, fast food joints and government offices. The objective is to use the mulch and organic fertilizer in organic farming which will be directly given to farmers or can be used in the respective educational institutions in their gardens and neighbouring areas

DIPIKA CHORDIA
Serene - A Mission to Survive: This project includes (1) Reforestation (2) Village-upliftment: to learn and share the problems of the neighbouring villages and do everything possible to help (3) Create a role-model for the society: to help others realize and see the importance and effect of changing their way of life (4) Form a sustainable commune: to form a group of people who are like-minded and are working for the same cause ie. Save our future! (civilization)

AMOGH KURGHODE
Biogas production from fungal pre treated dry leaves: To provide a novel, effective and clean method for disposal of dry leaves. Burning dry leaves is the common practice in most of the part of world which adds CO2 to the atmosphere and we also lose tremendous amounts of biomass. If we produce methane from dry leaves then the amount of CO2 released will be reduced. By doing this we can get fuel for consumption and we can prevent loss of biomass

PARVARI PARALKAR
Cycle for a Better Life Cycle: Promoting cycling for short distances which would otherwise have been undertaken by taxi’s and private cars. This project proposes a ‘Hire a Cycle Booth’ outside stations and well charted frequently used paths resulting in a reduction in the pollution levels

THEO ALLEN FERNANDES
I Heart Earth Foundation’s 2A Model:Solution to India's Climate Change: The I Heart Earth Foundation’s primary objective is to create ‘awareness’ among people, thereby encouraging them to ‘adopt’ sustainable practices in daily life; eventually humanizing their attitude towards environment conservation. For this particular year our focus would be on minimizing the use of plastic bags as a shopping essential by promoting the usage of jute handbags, and at the same time promoting awareness about sustainable development

ANKUR MATHUR
Youth Environmental Activities (YEA): Promote environmental awareness among youth and empower them to work towards building a sound environmental ethic. The activities will include plantation drives, Initiative Go-Green  (i-Go Green), Eco-Solutions and internships

SUDAM BATULE
Biovillage Centre: Bio-energy conservation and Commercialization: The aim is to ensure Energy, Climate and Environment security by techno-economically commercially and eco-friendly rural entrepreneurship and employment opportunities to rural youth

DIVESH KUMAR
My project aims at sensitizing low income communities in Pune Maharashtra towards Environmental and Climate change issues by working with school children in these communities. The plan is to spread awareness amongst kids towards environment changes, causes behind the changes and the remedies or the actions to take to avert these catastrophic changes

RUTIKA MUCHHALA
GreenIITB: This is a campus sustainability program that will nurture a network and implement activities like expanding the range of awareness and mitigation activities, conduct regular impact measurements, develop a framework which can be used by educational institutions to go green and start sustainability chapters in other campuses

N S ACHYUTHAN
To assess the impact of human intrusion in the forested areas around Navi Mumbai, the microfauna of the study area and also to create awareness among public concentrating on the schools and villagers. To save whatever is remaining of these areas so that fauna and the normal weather conditions may be maintained for now and for the future

PRATEEK VIDYA
Energy Championship for Residential Societies: Reduce domestic energy consumption using suitable motivational tools and awareness. The concept is of Energy Championship which is about an effort from all citizens in a targeted residential society to save energy, which will be gauged from their electricity and water bills, and the highest saving families and societies will be recognised and rewarded

AMRUTH VARSHINI B L
Carpool & Contribute: To promote carpooling activity by addressing a key issue of safety and to facilitate the exercise by making the solutions simple and open. It focuses mainly on promotion of the idea as easy and implement-able and underlines the fact that it is everybody’s responsibility indeed to engage in carpooling

PRASANTHI SRIDHAR
Composting and Sapling plantation: To initiate households into sustainable waste management practices through activities like awareness generation about sustainable waste management, digging compost pits or providing compost pots, involving the NGOs for large scale awareness generation and involving the Thanjavur Municipality in spreading the practice to wider areas

SRIPAD SRIDHAR
Environment,Wildlife and Us: Monitoring environment at the grass root level, integrating information and contributing to the relevance of the existing knowledge base through Documentation of forests & cities, Photography, NGO’s and Talk shows, Debates & Programmes

TAPAN GANDURI
Sea, Sand and Shore: The project includes assessment of the amount and quality of litter on selected beaches along the ECR Highway, finding out the reasons for the problem and arriving at appropriate solutions and their Implementation, wherever possible, awareness campaigns in local schools and spreading the word through announcement programs on (Community) Radio Stations and Blogs

RAVI THEJA MUTHU
Climate Leaders India Project: The project aims to inspire Indian Youth to join the Global climate movement, motivate the students to start and run eco clubs in campuses, form a strong network of motivated and inspired individuals to take action on climate change at various levels and Implementation of grassroots projects by the youth

MALVIKA SARAOGI
Gift of Nature: The project aims to plant as many trees as possible. This project will operate via a website where individuals can enter the amount (above a certain minimum level) they wish to donate and accordingly choose the type of tree they would like to plant from the given options

BAKYALAKSHMI NISHA RAVICHANDRAN
Green Home: The aim of the project is to eradicate plastic wastes at homes, reduce Co2 emissions and global warming, create a clean and green place to live in and solve the power crisis

MADHUMITHA MADHAVAN
Adopting and Assisting Eco-clubs functioning in the Government Schools and in the process create a generation of environmentally responsive citizens. This to be achieved by analysing eco-clubs in government schools, assessing their effectiveness, identifying their weaknesses and providing resources for their effective functioning by adopting them

PURNIMA ASHOK KUMAR
ECOFEST: Celebrating the environment through a green carnival for kids and parents. This project focuses on a guilt free approach to generating interest and communicating environmental messages to Target age groups through carnival activities

SWATHI PAUL
Eco-Communication Network: To inform home makers on making better choices and essential changes towards a more eco friendly, economically efficient house hold. The money they save on their monthly expenditure would be an incentive for these home makers to take up greener practices and more eco-friendly choices in their day to day life

ASHOKHA VARSHINI G
Capture and Change – Use of Media in Creating Change for a better Earth: The major objectives of this project would be to initiate action in a community by using Video as an effective tool to bring people together. The project would not only set off a change, but can also be used to create awareness by screening of the videos in various places like schools, colleges, public areas, etc

PRADEEP P S
Save Sacred Grove Campaign: To create an inter collegiate network of students to indulge in the conservational activities of Sacred Groves in and around Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala and to create awareness activities among the communities in the vicinity of sacred groves and also on contemporary youth by various methods

GODWIN VASANTH BOSCO
Exploring Communicating: Mountains: To work on creative ways in which the ecology, state and changes that are happening in mountains ecosystems can be communicated and to keep exploring ways in which materials can be brought out and continue into the long term

TANPREET SINGH SEHGAL
GreenCitizens.net: Promoting the website www.greencitizens.net which is a one stop hub in the world of Green on internet and a single information resource on everything related to the world of climate change environment energy and green business enhanced with the features of social networking website and an open platform

VIVEK ANAND A
Model Conference of Parties: To sensitize students on the issue of climate change and politics of climate change negotiations through events simulating COP (Conference Of Parties) in which the participants will be representing different countries