Greenpeace India launches Garden City 2.0 initiative

Greenpeace India has invited people of the city to the launch of the vertical garden named Garden City 2.0. The 30 ft x 30 ft vertical garden has been installed at Phoenix Market City in Whitefield.

Citizens are invited to sow seeds placed in the structure and having their names on the pot. They can watch the growth for eight weeks after which the plants will be given back to their owners.  

Garden City 2.0 is part of the ‘Waste To Food’ campaign launched late last month. Shivani Shah, senior campaigner of Food For Life, Greenpeace India, says, “The aim of the activity is to create awareness about segregation and composting. The first step to do so is to segregate waste, compost the wet waste and once waste is segregated and composted, it can be provided to farmers as organic fertilisers. This will ultimately ensure that the food we consume has reduced use of chemicals.”

Poornima Srinivas, the corporator of Krishnarajapuram ward, who visited the vertical garden, acknowledged the need to carry out more of such campaigns and committed to implementing waste segregation and composting in her ward.

The vertical garden will be on display until October 20.