There are people among us who are actively solving problems that people face. This is an attempt to get word out about these solutions. This is an attempt to make us question ourselves.

“I would rather be a forest than a street”…

November 5, 2007 – 11:27 am

Yes, global warming, and everything else we get for free along with urban development. All of us hear about it, few of us do more.

Rajanet Yegneswaran Charitable Trust was formed by Mrs. Janet in memory of her beloved husband Late Mr. R S Yegneswaran in 2005.

What do they do? Simple, they plant trees

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We thought we will also talk less, and try to do a little. We MAD people are thinking of planting a tree or two with them soon. Do you want to join us? Let us know at arewemad@gmail.com!

Suyog, thanks for leading us to Trees For Free.

  1. 5 Responses to ““I would rather be a forest than a street”…”

  2. Hey, thanks for featuring this. Just a few suggestions :-)

    I think it would have been nice if the post had some more leaves and branches (being a veggie, would prefer not to use the “meat” word here :-)). The article seems to have been written in haste and sadly, I may add with a lot less passion as compared to the previous ones. The overall impact of the article as I have always emphasized would have been much more, if you had a nice leading picture of trees setting the context. Yeah, there are two pictures but I can barely see them and they are too geeky! By any chance, is the author of this article a s/w engineer? Second question, why does the author prefer to remain anonymous ?

    Overall, I think you have a fantastic initiative but please more articles and with more passion. This is a fervent request from a loyal reader. Hope you guys/gals out there behind this site are “listening” and “will act” on this. Of course, you can opt not to :-)

    By suyog on Nov 6, 2007

  3. Are the comments approved automatically if I register?

    By Suyog on Nov 6, 2007

  4. Suyog,

    First off, many thanks for the feedback :-) It helps us improve by leaps and bounds each time we get some feedback, so please keep it coming!

    Now, on to more pertinent things: This article could use a bit more content, yes, but we deliberately chose to keep this one off the beaten track (hindsight is 20/20, eh?). We are planning for this article to start us off on our first AreWeMAD activity, and we wanted to use fewer words on this one and put in more actions instead. (We’re hoping that the follow up article on what we did will be meatier! (We’d love it if you could chip in too, BTW)

    Yup, the author is a software engineer :-) The graph is geeky, and could’ve been depicted by a better photo maybe, but then, this one says exactly what we wanted, in very simple terms. Elegance in simplicity maybe? We’ll try to use something better next time.

    And yes, more articles will be coming. One of the sites administrators (well, me :-() is being extremely lazy. That is supposed to change sometime soon.

    Secondly, registered posters comments are still screened, and have to be approved by an admin. Again, this will change soon and comments will get posted automatically… I’ll keep you updated on that :-)

    By srikanth on Nov 6, 2007

  5. Guys, this is a stupendous effort. How do you do your research? Some amazing articles! It’s so refreshing to read of some good that’s being done by the human race; it gives hope to those (like me) who have lost / are losing faith in humanity’s ability to better things.

    Never go down

    By Luveen on Apr 26, 2008

  6. Thanks a lot, Luveen. As of now, we look for stuff on the net and around us. Once you give it a try you will be amazed to see the number of people who are trying to create a better life for us.

    By nihit on May 4, 2008

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