Prize Winners of Harvest to Harness (H2H) 2004
Winners of the H2H were felicitated in a ceremony held at Ruia garden, Grant Road on Nov 26. The various entries received were displayed for the assembled guests . Out of the entries received Naval Dockyard and St Catherine's Home along with __village were declared winners. Hon. Shri Jagannath Hege, Sheriff of Mumbai felicitated the winners. Mr Vithal Kamat, Chairman and Managing Director, Lotus Suites, Rudolf D' Souza, Trustee, Eureka Forbes Institute of Environment and Roshni Udyavar of Rachna Sansad Institute of Environmental Architecture represented the three organization associated with the event
Mega eco quiz - October 2004
were seated at the hot seat - the mega eco quiz. This quiz saw 1 winner who withstood the firing of over 70 questions and several competitors. Mr. Kailash (engg) was then bestowed with a cash prize cash voucher of Rs. 750/- for his excellence.
Beach clean up - Sept 2004
Post Ganpati immersion we saw vibrant green team members front end the cleaning up of Juhu beach of all garbage and remains. Once again working towards a cleaner and greener world.
Harvest to Harness Contest 2004
The first Rain water Harvesting Contest - Harvest to Harness 2004 was launched at the Maharashtra Nature Park. The objective of the contest was to come to a solution for harvesting rainwater in Mumbai. The contest received 45 entries. Delegates from Mumbai came in on this day to educate staff and invitees on the importance of harvesting rainwater and the after effects of drawing water from the earth resources. The event was jointly organized by The Lotus Suites in association with Eureka Forbes & Rachna Sansad.
Eco skit - 15th august 2004
This day a few team members of lotus suites enacted a skit at Cirkus Cirkus and brought forward horrifying facts, of how we destroy our beautiful world. The lotus green team along with our resident guests pledged an oath to protect our earth.
No tobacco day - May 31st 2004
Over 100 underprivileged children painted on paper their true feelings of the ill effects of smoking. At our very own Cirkus Cirkus a skit was enacted by them encouraging all against active and passive smoking. Mr. Arshad Warsi added glamour to this day by bestowing the winners with prizes. A day to remember - the message of no tobacco was translated well.
World earth day - April 22nd 2004
This day saw an Emote gesture by the green team members of lotus suites. Nearly 700 Tulsi saplings were distributed in Seepz, Andheri Kurla & MIDC encouraging corporates towards protecting and preserving our mother earth. Grow more trees was the message delivered and was appreciated well by friends and corporates alike.
World water day - March 22nd 2004
The essence and importance of water conservation was announced to all our neighbours. The green team members expressed this concern by a gesture of mineral water bottles being distributed, and tagged along a strong yet
truthful message of the water conservation to all.
World Environment day
- Kaun banega eco pati quiz 05th June 2005 - A mega eco quiz with slogan competition "Kaun Banega Eco Pati" was conducted. This day saw winners who were seated at the hot seat - the mega eco quiz. This quiz saw ' Eco Pati' Dr. Chaitali (wellness club) as the eventual winner of cash prize of Rs. 1000/- & departmental team quiz winners comprising of Mr. Ashok (Pur), Ms. Sagina (HR), & Mr. Nagraj (Stores) were bestowed with a cash prize of Rs. 1500/- for their excellence.
Earth Day - April 22
On the occasion of Earth Day a poster painting contest was organized by Lotus Suites. The winners as decided were. 1st prize - Mr. Sreerem Sugathan
(Wellness Club) winning a dinner for two at the Orchid Hotel. 2nd prize - Mr. Sharad Chandrameher (Engg) winning a dinner for two at the Rodas Hotel, 3rd prize - Mr. Vikrant Lad (Engg) winning a dinner for two at Starters & More. Consolation prize was bestowed on Mr. Srinibas (Serv) winning a one kg cake for The Lotus Suites Mumbai
World Water Day - March 22
Launch of Rain Center: Lotus Suites along with Eureka Forbes Institute of Environment and Rachna Sansad launched the Rain Harvest Center. The launch took place on the occasion of World Water Day - March 22. On this day the assembled audience of about 100 Mumbaikars came together at the unique Euro Enviro Park and took the '5 Point Pledge' to follow practical water savings tips everyday that would result in each of them saving 40,000 litres of water annually. This translates to a savings of 2 Million Litres of water.
Those present at the function included ALMs of Mumbai, NGOs working in the field of Water Conservation, Environmentalists, School/College
Principals and prominent citizens and corporates of Mumbai, who have committed to promoting the '5 point pledge card' to every Mumbaikar they come across.
The 'Water Harvesting Centre' is for education, demonstration and guidance on Rainwater harvesting. It has live models of rainwater harvesting on permanent display and documentation of actual work. Consultancy on Rainwater harvesting at sites will be provided without cost. This is the
second joint initiative of the three organizations after the successful first ever 'Harvest to harness' rainwater harvesting contest last year
VERMICULTURE
The Lotus Suites practices waste segregation at all levels of waste output. Thus we are able to segregate the dry waste from the wet. The wet garbage is then compost at source. Onsite composting pits ensure that we are able to degrade our wet waste and reuse the compost as organic manure
Further we have also initiated the Nirmalya Composting. All our team
members bring their Nirmalya (flowers offered to deities) which is collected and composted in a special pit. The Nirmalya that is commonly thrown into the seas, is composted onsite thus not adding onto the existing water
pollution.