{"id":40774,"date":"2015-11-05T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=40774"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T11:45:30","slug":"solar-power-producer-welspun-renewables-rolls-out-green-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-power-producer-welspun-renewables-rolls-out-green-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power producer Welspun Renewables rolls out &#8216;Green Heroes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welspun Renewables, India&#8217;s largest private solar power producer, today said it&#8217;s committed to helping address environmental issues through its &#8216;Disruptive Innovations Lab&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the programme, the company has launched initiatives like &#8216;Green Heroes&#8217; that enable development and adoption of sustainable models to tackle wider issues like climate change and social inclusion,&#8221; the company said in a statement here. <\/p>\n<p>The Green Hero campaign is aimed at identifying individuals who are making their surroundings and in turn the world, greener and healthier. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welspun Renewables has decided to partner with Narayana Peesapaty and create awareness for his edible cutlery initiative that offers a healthy and environment-friendly alternative to non bio-degradable plastic cutlery,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>Vineet Mittal, Vice-Chairman Welspun Renewables, said all of the company&#8217;s initiatives are focussed on giving back to society. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the umbrella of our Disruptive Innovations Lab, we have adopted a multi-pronged approach with which we work with our stakeholders for positive action to tackle climate change. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While institutional efforts continue to garner recognition, it is critical that due notice be paid to individual efforts. Disruptive solutions from environment crusaders like Narayana Peesapaty should be encouraged,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Narayana Peesapaty hopes to encourage farmers to grow more millet crops as an alternative to rice through edible cutlery. <\/p>\n<p>Paddy fields are known to cause groundwater depletion in the long run and by increased millet cultivation, this depletion can be arrested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welspun Renewables, India&#8217;s largest private solar power producer, today said it&#8217;s committed to helping address environmental issues through its &#8216;Disruptive Innovations Lab&#8217;. &#8220;Under the programme, the company has launched initiatives like &#8216;Green Heroes&#8217; that enable development and adoption of sustainable models to tackle wider issues like climate change and social inclusion,&#8221; the company said in a statement here. The Green Hero campaign is aimed at identifying individuals who are making their surroundings and in turn the world, greener and healthier. &#8220;Welspun Renewables has decided to partner with Narayana Peesapaty and create awareness for his edible cutlery initiative that offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}