The Indian Angle 9.0 – 28th September, 2009
Going Green Part I

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Sustainable Landscaping, Native Gardening, And Worm or Food Waste composting.

Accurate Term for us  South Asian  is maintaining Green. As we have always been green BEFORE green became green or COOL. We have always believed in reduce, reuse and recycle.

Mr. Arvind Kumar is a director of the California Native Plant Society, and the vice president of its Santa Clara Valley Chapter. He is on the steering committees of the Going Native Garden Tour and the Gardening With Natives group. He writes the Gardening Green column for the Loma Prietan, the newsletter of the local Sierra Club chapter. He is a graduate of Acterra's Be the Change class of 2006.

Resources:
California Native Plant Society

Ms. Radhika Thekkath is a gardener and landscape designer who is also a keen advocate of native plant use in home gardens. She has lived and worked in the technical world of Silicon Valley for over 2o years. She is a member of the Gardening-with-Natives steering committee and California Native Plant Society. She is the founder of Native again website and company. 

Resources:
Native Again Landscape

Ms. Sally Brooks-Schulke is  a science teacher for the Evergreen Elementary School District.  She has been doing home and classroom worm composting for 8 years. She works closely with the Santa Clara County office of home composting. Together they provide free classes , in-depth information, classroom visits on worm composting to the community.  In her class room, she does worm composting as part of life science to teach stewardship, reduce food waste, and produce quality soil to her students.

Resources:
Santa Clara County Worm Compost Site for Home Compost: 

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