Paint Bengaluru Green needs your help for "crowd sourced" online information repositories to integrate entities towards fueling speedy green revolution locally and globally!

A. Pitch Summary:  

Billion Trees and Beyond is getting traction among green loving citizens who are eager to do their bit, but needing critical guidance and help regarding their engagement ahead. 

The mother platform of Billion Trees and Beyond is the Paint Bengaluru Green, which was launched an year earlier is committed to foster speedy and more effective green revolution in Bengaluru through the strategy of online information exchange repositories. 

The key strategy of Paint Bengaluru Green was to count on a set of online savvy volunteers to do so, which could not be effected immediately. However, with the direct ongoing citizen interaction through the Billion Trees and Beyond platform engagements, it is now possible not only to mobilize more and more supply and demand related information related to the green / sustainability revolution eco space, but also to foster critical collaboration across individuals and entities in this regard.

As an initial step, the Paint Bengaluru Green will bootstrap basic information repositories with the help of crowd sourcing. A set of dedicated volunteers will emerge through this effort too. The initial opportunistic and amateurish expression will slowly mature towards institutionalization fostering co-operation across multiple institutional platforms and billions of individuals, initially locally and eventually worldwide.

Example of the initial set of information repositories being attempted  are as follows:

1. Gardening, Horticulture, Sustainable Agriculture, Plants and Wildlife Conservation Category 
    eg. Gardeners Community Network Information
          Plant Species Sapling / Seeds Donating Angels Network Information
          Organic Farming and Organic Supply Network Information
          Plants and Species Conservation Network Information    
          Cow Dung Suppliers Information
          Compost Suppliers Information
          Terrace and Land Garden Setup Service Providers Information
          Terrace and Land Garden Suppliers Information

           Related Training, Education, Charity/Activism, Mentoring and Volunteering Network Information   

2. Green Propagation Category
      eg. Trees Plantation Institutions Network Information
            Trees Sapling Supply Network Information
            Seed Ball Generation and Deployment Network Information
            Tree Plantations and Seed Ball Generation / Deployments Events Information
            Related Training, Education, Charity/Activism, Mentoring and Volunteering Network Information   

3. Waste Management and Recycling Category    
   eg. Organic Waste Recycling Network Information
          Recycled Organic Waste Suppliers Network Information
          Organic Waste Recycling Education, Charity/Activism, Mentoring and Volunteering Network Information  

4. Green and Sustainability Agenda In General 
      eg. Green and Sustainability Entrepreneurship Network Information
            Green and Sustainability Innovation Network Information
            Green and Supply Education, Charity/Activism, Mentoring and Volunteering Network Information

5. Anything else related as per your feedback and support   
  eg. Green and Sustainability Agenda in local and global governance platforms Information 

B. How You Can Help?

  1. Provide relevant information for creation and maintenance of information repositories
  2. Help in dissemination of critical information to masses, especially the ones disconnected from online
  3. Serve as a volunteer, mentor, collaborator, patron, sponsor to foster this online information exchange, both at individual and institutional level.
  4. If you are technology savvy, help with technology and architecture work to turn the rudimentary Excel sheet based information towards online portals with citizen self help
5. Anything else, pls. suggest.  

C. Next Steps:

1. Keep feeding critical information for repositories development only through written media, using email, sms, Whatsapp, Facebook etc. Contact details as follows:
2. Foster the information repository usage through virals as they emerge in the coming days
3. Sign up as a volunteer, collaborator, patron, sponsor etc.through our contacts or public events.
4. Visit our stall (Stall # 1) today at the 29th OFYT event for the information supply / demand, pledge, volunteering and support.

D. How to Contact Us?:

1. Paint Bengaluru Green
     email: paintblrgreen@gmail.com
     FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/paintblrgreen/
     Blog: http://paintblrgreen.blogspot.com/

2. Billion Trees and Beyond
    email: billiontreesandbeyond@gmail.com
    FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/paintblrgreen/

(Yes, we are yet to move out of our parent's home here!)

    Blog:  http://www.billiontreesandbeyond.com/

3. A growing set of volunteers personally
       Nataraja Upadhya: 9632824391 (Phone, Whatsapp)
       Shankar P A 9845679872

4. Our public engagement event stalls like the one below today!

Thank you for your help and support.

Namasthe 

Nataraja Upadhya

For Paint Bengaluru Green! (ಬೆ೦ಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಹಸಿರು ಓಕುಳಿ!) & Billion Trees and Beyond