Dr. Ashwin Nithish Educator · Environmentalist

Conservation taught as a habit, not a hashtag.

Green Festival, Green Ganesha, and climate change awareness programmes in 58 government schools — plus a 24-hour speech that put the subject on the front page.

Environmental conservation has been one of Dr. Ashwin Nithish’s lifelong missions — and the part of his work that reaches furthest outside a lecture hall.

Through initiatives such as the Green Festival and Green Ganesha campaigns, he promotes sustainable living and environmentally responsible celebration. Alongside them, climate change awareness programmes delivered in 58 government schools have educated thousands of students on biodiversity conservation, waste management, water conservation, plastic pollution and why natural resources are worth protecting.

The bet behind all of it is simple: communities adopt environmentally conscious practices when the practice is specific, local and possible — not when the message is loud.

Sunlight filtering through a forest canopy
Biodiversity conservation
Mist over a green forested valley
Climate literacy
Hands holding a young plant in soil
Sustainable living
Campaign

Green Festival

Festivals are where habits are formed and waste is generated in the same week. Green Festival makes the case — and shows the method — for celebrating fully without leaving a mess behind.

Campaign

Green Ganesha

A campaign for idols and celebrations that return to the water without poisoning it. Clay over plaster, natural colour over chemical, ritual intact.

Programme

58 government schools

Climate change awareness programmes delivered directly into government school classrooms, reaching thousands of students with biodiversity, waste, water and plastic literacy.

Record

24-hour awareness speech

A continuous day-and-night speech on global warming and climate action — a world record attempt built to put the subject on the front page, and it did.

Press interview during the global warming awareness talk
Regional press coverage

The 24-hour speech

A full day and night on one subject.

Twenty-four continuous hours of speaking on global warming, sustainability and climate action — delivered in public, covered by the regional press, and recognised as a record.

The point was never endurance. It was airtime: a way to hold a city’s attention on a subject that usually gets ninety seconds at the end of a bulletin.

  • Global warming and its local consequences
  • Waste, water and plastic in everyday municipal life
  • What a household, a campus and a ward can each change

Biodiversity conservation

What lives locally, what has disappeared in a generation, and what a school ground can support.

Waste management

Segregation done properly, composting at home, and where a plastic wrapper actually ends up.

Water conservation

Household use, rainwater harvesting and the arithmetic of a dry season.

Plastic pollution

Single-use audits, practical substitutions, and how a class can measure its own reduction.

Bring this to a school

Bring a session to your campus, company or community.

Guest lectures, multi-day workshops, induction programmes and green campaigns — tell us the audience and the outcome you want, and the session gets built around it.