The document announces an inaugural tree planting event on March 13th, 2013 in Bangalore, India to commemorate Dr. Shree Shree Shivakumara Mahaswamigalu's 106th birthday. It encourages planting trees at educational institutions, hospitals, work locations, and rural homes. Trees provide social, communal, and environmental benefits like reducing stress, aiding patient recovery, improving learning, acting as living memorials, screening noise/views, complementing architecture, producing oxygen, filtering pollution, providing wildlife habitat, and reducing stormwater runoff and erosion. Planting more trees can help cool homes, save energy, and make Karnataka a "Green Paradise." The document requests donations and volunteers to

1. Presents
Kannada Nadalli Hasiru Tapovana
Date: Wednesday 13th March 2013
Place: V Foundation Office, Bangalore, India

2. Dr. Shree Shree Shivakumara
Mahaswamigalu

3. On the auspicious occasion of
106th Birthday
Dr. Shree Shree
Shivakumara
Mahaswamigalu

6. Inaugural Event

8. Tree Plant

9. Place to Plant
• Educational
Institution
• Hospital
• Work Location
• Layout/Rural House

11. Social Benefits
• Trees make life nicer. It has been shown that spending time
among trees and green spaces at home or office reduces the
amount of stress that we carry around with us in our daily
lives.
• Hospital patients have been shown to recover from surgery
more quickly when their hospital room offered a view of trees.
• Children have been shown to retain more of the information
taught in schools if they spend some of their time outdoors in
green spaces.
• Trees are often planted as living memorials or reminders of
loved ones or to commemorate significant events in our lives.

12. Communal Benefits
• Even though you may own the trees on your property your
neighbors may benefit from them as well.
• Through careful planning trees can be an asset to your entire
community.
• Tree lined streets have a traffic calming effect, traffic moves
more slowly and safely.
• Trees can be placed to screen unwanted views or noise from
busy highways.
• Trees can complement the architecture or design of buildings
or entire neighborhoods.

13. Environmental Benefits
• Trees are like the lungs of the planet. They breathe in carbon dioxide and
breathe out oxygen. Additionally, they provide habitat for birds and other
wildlife. But that’s not all trees do for us!
• Trees improve our air quality by filtering harmful dust and pollutants
such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide from the air we
breathe.
• Trees give off oxygen that we need to breathe.
• Trees reduce the amount of storm water runoff, which reduces erosion
and pollution in our waterways and may reduce the effects of flooding.
• Many species of wildlife depend on trees for habitat. Trees provide food,
protection, and homes for many birds and mammals.

14. Make Karnataka “Green Paradise”
• Trees Help to Save Energy • Statistics
• Planting trees can also help cool your • Trees trap CO2 from the atmosphere
home in the summer. The overall effect and make carbohydrates that are used
of the shade created by planting a for plant growth. They give us oxygen in
healthy tree is equivalent to 10 room- return. Mature trees can absorb roughly
size air conditioners running 20 hours a 48 pounds of CO2 a year. The tree in
day! turn releases enough oxygen to sustain
two human beings.
• In the winter, trees can act as
windbreaks for your home and will help • Trees also help to reduce ozone levels in
you save on heating costs. The Journal of urban areas. Trees reduce urban runoff
Horticulture claims that saving on and erosion by storing water and
heating costs can reach as much as 25 breaking the force of rain as it falls.
percent!
• Trees also absorb sound and reduce
• Trees shade buildings, streets, and noise pollution. This is especially
homes. If enough trees are planted in important for people who live near
cities, the overall microclimate improves freeways. In some cases, a well planted
and total energy use for heating and group of trees can reduce noise
cooling is reduced. pollution by up to 10 decibels.

15. Participate
Donation Volunteers
Please write to us: Send your interest or experience to:
V Foundation
Program Coordinator - RARE Muthu Swamy S
info@vfoundation.in Chairman,
# 36 & 37, Vijay Nivas, Uttarahalli V Foundation
Bangalore-560061. ms@vfoundation
Phone: +91(901)901-1842 +91(988)619-7840
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