Green cops: The more you give, the more you get

Indian Environmentalists: The more you give, the more you get

From The Star | 6th Sep 2010 | By Shah Alam

Environmentalists T. Srinivasa Rao and R. Gnanasekaran from New Delhi, India, who are on their seventh globe-trotting expedition to raise awareness on global warming, believe in the importance of giving back. “One truth is that the more you give, the more you get in return.

“And the more you give to the earth, the more the earth will give back to you,” said Srinivasa, 48.

Green cops: Srinivasa (left) and Gnanasekaran, who are travelling around the world to spread the message on global warming and urge governments to opt for green solutions, standing outside the Selangor State Secretariat building in Shah Alam.

These guys are cool, they travelled across Europe and spent most of their time with councillors and state leaders AND children to “sow the seeds of going green”.

They've already visited Kuala Lumpur and USJ to work with communities and neighbourhoods to help protect Mother Earth. 

Gnanasekaran, 47, said being green was not just about contributing money but also one’s time and talents. “Malaysia is a beautiful nation blessed with abundance of sunlight and this natural resource can be turned into solar energy.

“Paying utility bills is absolutely unnecessary. Making the solar panels will be cost-effective if all houses are fitted with it,” he said.

Gnanasekaran said people were using fossil fuel that polluted the air and this led to global warming and depleted non-renewable resources.

“We want developed countries like the United States to support developing nations with financial grants to develop renewable-energy projects to improve the environment,” he said.

Srinivasa and Gnanasekaran, both electrical engineers, started their global awareness campaign in 1986 with their first expedition on bicycle covering 68,000 km. They arrived in Mexico last month (December) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December. Good stuff.

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Disarming Manner Supported Pair's Ride For World Peace

Disarming Manner Supported Pair's Ride For World Peace

July 13, 1989 | By Ron Avery, Daily News Staff Writer

Their names are longer then their bodies. And their bodies seem as frail as matchsticks.

In fact, the diminutive pair that bills itself as the "Indian Peace Cyclists" are men of steel.

Thangavelu Srinivas Rao and Rajasekaran Gnanasekaran arrived in the Delaware Valley earlier this week near the end of a three-year, 38,000-mile, 38-country, six-continent bike ride.

The two men, both in their mid-20s, completed engineering studies and decided to postpone career and family a few years to secure world peace and nuclear disarmament.

Well, they could try.

They left Pondicherry, India, in March 1986. Each had $500 and a bicycle. They carried leaflets warning of the dangers of "nuclear holocaust."

And wherever they went they tried to meet the king, prime minister, mayor, commissar, chief, headman.

They asked these leaders for a letter supporting peace and nuclear disarmament, and they almost always got one.

When they arrive in New York, probably today or tomorrow, they'll seek a meeting with Javier Perez de Cuellar, secretary-general of the United Nations. And they'll hand him 500 letters calling for peace, including those signed by the prime minister of New Zealand, the king of Sweden and the mayor of Philadelphia.

They will then catch a plane back to India, where they hope to write a book and establish a small peace museum to display the thousands of objects they accumulated along the way, including 250 newspaper clippings about themselves.

How do you stretch $500 for three years? The secret lies in being sincere, friendly and Indian.

"There are 10 million Indians living abroad. They're everywhere," explains Rao.

So, when the pair arrived in Media, Delaware County, Tuesday, they repeated a procedure that has served them countless times in the past. They found a telephone book and looked for an Indian name.

They called Dr. Ahmed Kutty of Swarthmore, a cardiologist who readily agreed to provide free room and board. What's more, Kutty decided to help raise air fare back to India.

"He chipped in $100. He is calling all his Indian friends in Philadelphia. If they all give $100, we'll have the air fare (about $1,600) in no time," Rao explains.

Where they didn't find an Indian community, someone has always offered free lodging. They slept in grass huts in Africa and under the roofs of many American farms.

They claim they have never been robbed, mugged or abused in three years of travel.

Except for bouts of malaria in Africa, there have been no health problems. They say they found a universal friendliness and hospitality. The only danger came from African elephants and American dogs.

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Indian duo on round the world bicycle trip to raise global warming awareness

Indian duo on round the world bicycle trip to raise global warming awareness

Mon Sep 06 2010 16:12:20 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) by ANI

Kuala Lumpur, Sept 6 (ANI): Indian environmentalists T. Srinivasa Rao and R. Gnanasekaran from, who are on their seventh globe-trotting expedition to raise awareness on global warming, have said that they believe in the importance of giving back and urged world to opt for green solutions.

“One truth is that the more you give, the more you get in return. And the more you give to the earth, the more the earth will give back to you,” The Star quoted Srinivasa, as saying.

The duo is currently in Malaysia and received 1,000 dollars (RM 3,200) from Selangor state exco member Ronnie Liu, to work with communities and neighbourhoods to help protect Mother Earth.

Gnanasekaran said being green was not just about contributing money but also one’s time and talents.

“Malaysia is a beautiful nation blessed with abundance of sunlight and this natural resource can be turned into solar energy. Paying utility bills is absolutely unnecessary. Making the solar panels will be cost-effective if all houses are fitted with it,” he added.

He further stated that the use of fossil fuel pollutes the air, which leads to global warming and ultimately depletes non-renewable resources. He urged developed countries like the United States to support developing nations with financial grants to develop renewable-energy projects to improve the environment.

Srinivasa and Gnanasekaran, both electrical engineers, started their global awareness campaign in 1986 with their first expedition on bicycle covering 68,000km.

The duo would be heading to Argentina and travel through South America before arriving in Mexico for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December. (ANI)

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