about US
Most valuable gift we all can give to our future generation is a Sustainable Planet Earth.
CORE VALUES
Mission
Vision
Our mission is to inspire local communities and youths globally to build or adapt climate solutions for a sustainable future, by connecting to Mother Nature.
Our vision is to empower every person to take conscious decisions and well informed actions in daily activities to reduce their carbon footprint by 50% by 2030.
Core Values
Preserving the natural resources and protecting this planet for the existence of humanity is the most valuable gift we all can give to our future generation. To achieve this huge goal, we are guided by our core values LIGHT(Learning, Inclusion, Giving, Harmony, Togetherness):
LEARNING: We are committed to learn sustainable solutions and implement them through the help of our community. We strive in bringing worldwide awareness on climate literacy.
INCLUSION: We welcome diverse perspectives from all community volunteers, climate activists, and students spreading across the globe, different generations or ethnicity.
GIVING: We take the responsibility of giving a safe habitable planet to our future generations, to our own kids and grand kids, the way our planet was, even 100years back.
HARMONY: We acknowledge the essential laws of nature to live in harmony with nature, and maintain biodiversity in land, ocean and entire atmosphere.
TOGETHERNESS: We believe in community effort to face this massive challenge to undo the damage that we have done to our planet. We seek out collaboration with other organizations to make an impact.
Our Focus Areas
1 Restoring Natural Resources
Our first focus area is RESTORE which strives in raising awareness about environmental issues such as protection, conservation, preservation, and restoration, with an emphasis on reducing environmental impact as individuals, as community, and as citizens of the world. This effort is to bring back natural carbon capture to a balanced state. We achieve this goal with our proud volunteers and by partnering with cities, local governments and other nonprofit organizations to stop deforestation, and planting more trees.
2 Reinventing Energy, Transportation, Buildings and Agriculture
Our second focus area is the REINVENT which provides a platform for our local communities and youths to innovate the way we use energy, transportation, buildings, agriculture and everything to embrace a sustainable lifestyle. We achieve this goal by working with self motivated groups such as school clubs, nonprofits, community ventures and startups to foster innovation in Climate Tech
3 Reassessing and Encouraging Sustainable Lifestyle
Our third focus area is REASSESS which brings data driven awareness of adverse impact on nature due to our own activities and recommendations to improve. Our goal is to provide a platform for People, Process, Product or organizations to assess their Carbon footprint, and take appropriate actions to reduce their Carbon. We achieve this goal by working with individuals and small and medium sized organizations across the globe.
Who we are & Our Team
We are one year old non profit organization founded by inviduals who are passionate about solving Climate Change, the biggest threat human has faced ever.
Gyana Dash
Chair/Founder
Gyana is a California Bay Area resident since 1998. He is deep rooted in community services and is associated with professionally and personally with a number of nonprofits such as Child Relief & You (CRY), Climate Realty Bay Area. He volunteers as mentor, Judge and coach in FTC and FLL programs of FIRST. He currently lives in Bay Area with his wife Archana and two kids Pransu and Isa.
Asit Kumar Sahoo
Board of Director//Chief of Fundraising
Asit is a California Bay Area resident and he is seasoned Product Leader with Generative AI Expertise with his MBA degree from Columbia business school. He is very active in Odia community and drama. His passion to meet people and encourage on climate awareness goes back his own venture on water pollution back in India.
Prasant Behera
Board of Directors, Advisor
Prasanta Behera lives in the Bay Area, California. After working for more than 30+ years in the tech industry, he is now retired. Prasanta is an avid hiker and biker. He dabbles with poetry and writes children's books in his spare time.
Prasanta is involved with non-profit organizations such as IASF, PAF, JKM, and ThinkOfNature
Anita Routray
Board of Directors, Treasurer
Anita is a California Bay Area resident who currently works as a Program Manager at Google. Growing up in India she has lived across the east and west coast of North America, and Europe for a long time now. A wanderlust globetrotter and nature enthusiast, she truly believes in "preserving and cherishing the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known". She is associated with several community services and volunteers for a variety of causes, and is now gearing up to collaborate here in tackling climate change.
Samikshya (Samy) Patra
Chief of Marketing
Samikshya (Samy) Patra is a Operations and Engineering leader at Indeed with focus on planning and strategy for the engineering operations at scale.
Outside of work she pursues hiking, biking and volunteering for Project Read with the Redwood City Library. In last year and half, she has started engagement with entrepreneurs as an angel investor as well advisor where needed
Forrest Landola
Advisory Board, Technology and Innovation
Forrest Landola, PhD, is an engineer and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. His previous startup, DeepScale, was acquired by Tesla. His passion is to solve climate change.
He tweets @fiandola.
To join as board member or advisory board, please send email to : volunteer@thinkofnature.org