Key Objectives

• To promote conservation of eco-heritage, through research surveys and documentation: inventories of eco-systems, biodiversity, heritage-sites, indigenous manufacturing of processed foods, traditional healing practices and all forms of ethno-medicine and oral knowledge systems that contribute to sustainable life-style.
  
  
• To create a landscape of sacred trees, groves and medicinal plants and traditional gardens which reflect India’s ancient forest cultures (aranya).
  
  
• Develop teacher training programme on environmental education and eco-heritage.
  
  
• Enhance participation of local and urban communities to protect our fragile ecosystem.
  
  
• Raise public awareness about earth’s elemental cycles and our obligation towards ecosystem management.
  
  
• Preserve and maintain traditional gardens, herbariums and medicinal plants that are under threat.
  
  
• Promote women’s empowerment through ecologically sensitive ‘green’ creative activities.
  
  
• Create a local resource centre and a Green Museum for inculcating green literacy, self-responsibility and awareness.
  
  
• To conduct training programmes on environmental education and creative forms of ‘Green Literacy’ for children and young adults, rural folk, voluntary workers and educators, through a context-sensitive programme of Environmental Education (EE).
  
  
• To conduct courses for the academic study of Religion and Ecology in collaboration with recognised universities in India and abroad.
  
  
• Conservation of environmental celebrations that promote bio-ethics and geopiety.