{"id":17112,"date":"2019-09-20T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=17112"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:36:59","slug":"a-selfless-environmentalist-ganesh-poojari-kundapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/a-selfless-environmentalist-ganesh-poojari-kundapur\/","title":{"rendered":"A Selfless Environmentalist &#8211; Ganesh Poojari, Kundapur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FSL-India&#8217;s  CEL  team  heard  about  the  &#8216;clean  environment&#8217;   efforts  of Mr Ganesh Poojari, who is a resident of Kannada Kudru Island, Kundapur taluk. So, they visited him to find out what makes him tick. For 10 years, he worked hard in a restaurant at Dubai. A year ago, he came back from Dubai and now runs a bakery at Kundapur. He was fascinated by the example set by Dr A J Kalam, India\u2019s late President, Mrs Sudha Murthy, the well-known author and philanthropist, \u00a0and Ratan Tata, the famous industrialist and philanthropist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0004-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17117\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was especially inspired after reading many of Mrs Sudha Moorthy\u2019s &nbsp;articles and the books \u2018India 2020, A Vision for the New Milennium\u2019 by Dr Kalam and YS Rajan, as well as \u2018Wings of Fire\u2019, which is the story of Dr Kalam. He decided to do his little bit towards conservation of the environment in his home town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0006-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17119\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Poojari\u2019s house is built on the banks of the river Sowparnika.&nbsp; Every Sunday, he collects the trash from the river in his own boat. After filling the trash into a large bag, he carries the trash on his own scooter and hands it over to the Kundapur Municipality\u2019s trash vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0009-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17122\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0000-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17113\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0001-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17114\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Poojari always keeps 1 bag with him to collect whatever trash is found on the road leading to his home, and puts it into the bag. In addition, he is planning to plant jackfruit saplings by the roadside, to contribute towards the environment of Kundapur. Inspired by this one highly motivated individual, other people in the vicinity have started collecting trash to keep their areas clean.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0005-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17118\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190817-WA0007-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17120\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSL-India&#8217;s CEL team heard about the &#8216;clean environment&#8217; efforts of Mr Ganesh Poojari, who is a resident of Kannada Kudru Island, Kundapur taluk. So, they visited him to find out what makes him tick. For 10 years, he worked hard in a restaurant at Dubai. A year ago, he came back from Dubai and now runs a bakery at Kundapur. He was fascinated by the example set by Dr A J Kalam, India\u2019s late President, Mrs Sudha Murthy, the well-known&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/a-selfless-environmentalist-ganesh-poojari-kundapur\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17121,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,446],"tags":[123,968,967],"class_list":["post-17112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-experiential-living","category-environmental-education","tag-environment-conservation","tag-trash-management","tag-waste-warrior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17175,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17112\/revisions\/17175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}