Awareness
What we offer?
Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation conducts awareness programs for corporate and community-based organizations. These programs comprise of activities designed creatively for improving understanding, imparting knowledge, triggering actions and bringing in a behavioral change.
Past Events for Corporates:
EMC EKF joint e-Newsletters
Date: June 2020 – Present
Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation and Environmental Management Centre jointly roll out a monthly e-newsletter, sharing updates on the latest activities, ongoing projects, upcoming programs, events, courses, and a whole lot more. Subscribe to our Newsletter to stay connected! Read the past issues here.
Greener Product Directory
Date: September 2020
An online directory of 48 vendors providing green products and services was compiled and published in September 2020. These vendors were contacted between April and August 2020 with a short questionnaire to know more about their product offerings and gauge the current state of green products in India, including the impact of COVID-19 on their business. To learn more about it, access the Greener Product Directory here.
Sustainability Awareness Program (SAP) Drive India Enterprise Solutions Limited
Date: 5th June 2017
Location: Mumbai
This event was conducted on World Environment Day. The theme was ‘Connecting People to Nature’.
Sustainability Awareness Program (SAP) JSW Ltd
Date: 7th July 2016
Location: Mumbai
This awareness session was on waste and water management followed by interactive games and oath taking ceremony.
Sustainability Awareness Program (SAP) Crompton Greaves
Date: 5th July 2016
Location: Mumbai
In this event Plantation Drive was conducted followed by Awareness session. The program was held in partnership with Turning Tide Organization & Mulund ITI.
Sustainability Awareness Program (SAP) IL&FS Ltd
Date: January 2013- August 2014
Location: Mumbai
This awareness session covered various themes like green consumerism, sustainable transport, biodiversity, noise pollution etc.
Past Events for Communities:
Not Just a walk in the park
Date: 13th March 2016
Location: Mumbai, Pune
Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation conducted five events in three different parks of Pune city and Mumbai. The aim was to give school children a new perspective on the urban parks they often visit and bring them close to nature.
Bird Watching Trail
Date: 14th May 2016
Location: Mumbai
Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation celebrated World Migratory Bird Day on 14th May 2016 by conducting a bird watching trail at Bhandup Pumping Centre-One of the hotspots for birding in Mumbai.
Debunking the myths about plastic
Date: 5th June 2018
Location: MUmbai
Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation, Legasis Partners and Bombay Stock Exchange conducted a panel discussion on Beating the Plastic on the World Environment Day.
A session on carpooling
Date: 4th June 2017
Location: Mumbai
A carpooling initiative taken up by the enthusiastic residents of Whispering Palms Society in Kandivali, Mumbai. Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation calculated their individual/group emission reductions, fuel and money savings achieved so far from their ongoing carpooling activity.
Wall Mural Painting at Shivaji Park
Date: May 2015
Location: Mumbai
A local active citizen's group called Swacch Harit Shivaji Park (Clean & Green Shivaji Park) kicked off a Wall Mural painting on the theme of Cleanliness and Environment.
Tree Revival Campaign
Date: July, September 2013
Location-Mumbai
This event was conducted by Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation to emphasize the importance of trees amongst the citizens
Sustainability Kaleidoscope
Year: April 2015 – March 2016
Location: Mumbai
A subscription based series of seminars on frontier topics in Environmental Management & Sustainability interspersed with the facility of an online network connecting the participants of all the seminars on a common platform for discussions and continuous engagement and support.
Ekocalendar
Year: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Location: Mumbai
Every year since 2015 Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation brings out an eco-friendly calendar. The calendar is printed on FSC paper with soy based inks with a cover page of seed paper.
To know more about events contact sivaranjani@ekonnect.net
