Switch ON is a grass-root project Passionate and Committed about:
- Sustainability
- Equity

Environment Press - Call for Bloggers, Photographers & Videographers

Do you have a story to share - how the constant traffic congestion and the consequent honking in the neighbourhood is driving you up the wall… or your concerns about GM crops…. or the cool campaign you are planning to save that lake in your city… or how the last Sustainability Conference you attended inspired [...]

Kolkata Sustainability Summit, 30th January 2010

The first ever sustainability summit in Kolkata, bringing together policymakers, experts and youth, to discuss a action roadmap, on how to act on sustainable and equitable development.
•    Objective – Our unsustainable consumption and wasteful habits have brought life on earth to the brink, and caused a major divide between rich and poor.  We need to [...]

Renewable Energy Center - South 24 Parganas, West Bengal

Vivekananda Shakti Kendra - at Ullon, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal – is jointly developed and promoted by VSSU and ONergy, to distribute sustainable renewable energy solutions in rural West Bengal.
•    Vision - provide sustainable solutions for efficient and economic ways of lighting, electricity and cooking, and eradicate the use of fossil fuel (kerosene and [...]

Cycle Chalao - Butti Bacchao | 13-15 Dec 2009

That which is unsustainable cannot go on. Unsustainable things are destined to collapse suddenly. Our way of life is unsustainable. “Change” beckons us and “Change” we must. Be the movement as we kick off “Cycle Chalao - Batti Bachao” in the middle of December with two events – KCC Bikathon and Batti Bandh. While global [...]

Why New Coal - Kolkata Film Launch - 8th October

Switch ON in partnership with American Center and CSM is launching the “Why New Coal” film in kolkata.
After a successful premier in Delhi at Badlaav2009 earlier this year we are launching the film in our city at the American Center, on October 8.
The film questions India’s growth based on fossil fuels and highlights alternatives for [...]