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Compiled by: Manisha Gutman

THE CROAK is a weekly environmental newsletter put out by the eCoexist team. It is the voice of the environment on its last legs, the final croak that can either be a plea for attention or a call of triumph as the frogs jump out of the well of ignorance and denial.

Punaravartan: 2023

The PUNARAVARTAN team is all set to roll out the campaign for the Ganeshutsav and we will be launching it in nearly 8 cities this year across India this year.

This is a campaign to collect and recycle the natural clay used for Ganesh idols by returning it to the artisans who can use it again for next years idols. This has a two fold impact - it prevents the sedimentation of this clay at the bottom of natural water bodies and it also minimises the mining of fresh clay to be used for the idols.

Thank you to all of you who so generously participated in the Punaravartan campaign in 2022!! Those of you who have been following our progress on the Punaravartan campaign would by now have a glimpse of how beautifully it all came together - we collected a total of around 23000 kg of clay sludge altogether, which was sent to artisans in Pen, Pimpri Chinchwad, Thane and Pune.

22 organisations joined hands to make this possible along with several schools and residential societies.

VISIT THE PUNARAVARTAN WEBSITE HERE

Shortly we will have a map ready of the locations where the clay can be donated.

Read more about how this campaign is going across eight cities this year on our website and in what way this clay will be reused.

We look forward to your support to make the Ganesh Chaturthi festival completely a zero waste event !

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The Croak is a weekly environmental newsletter put out by the eCoexist team. It is the voice of the environment on its last legs, the final croak that can either be a plea for attention or a call of triumph as the frogs jump out of the well of ignorance and denial. Satirical, urgent and wise the newsletter brings to your attention, topics of global environmental relevance as well as emerging encouraging alternatives. Put together by a team of passionate Nature lovers, The Croak hopes to look at the environmental crisis in its face. It is a tool to reconnect readers to Nature, through questioning and self reflection. To understand the outer environment as a reflection of our own inner state, individually and as a species. And to take responsibility for enabling change.
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