{"id":3141,"date":"2025-10-08T13:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:59:58","slug":"remembrance-week-seed-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/remembrance-week-seed-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance week &#8211; Seed of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<br \/>\n<\/strong>Seed of Change was organized as part of Founders\u2019 Remembrance Week 2025, in collaboration with Arulagam NGO, to inspire ecological stewardship among students through native seed nurturing and biodiversity conservation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<br \/>\n<\/strong>The initiative marked the beginning of a long-term seed-to-sapling program, engaging first-year students of KCT in nurturing 3,000 native saplings. The journey began with Naval (Jamun) seedlings, designated as the Tree of the Year 2025 by the Tamil Nadu Government, reinforcing the message of ecological restoration and climate resilience.<br \/>\nThe event featured an insightful session by Mr. Bharathidasan from Arulagam, who discussed seed collection, seed banking, and native species preservation \u2014 instilling awareness on the significance of conserving local biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collaboration with Arulagam NGO<\/li>\n<li>Launch of 3,000 native saplings under the Seed-to-Sapling initiative<\/li>\n<li>Focus on Naval (Tree of the Year 2025) for biodiversity restoration<\/li>\n<li>Expert talk by Mr. Bharathidasan on seed collection and preservation<\/li>\n<li>Active participation of first-year KCT students in hands-on conservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus Areas <\/strong>Biodiversity Conservation<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3143\" src=\"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-08-at-20.57.38-300x229.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-08-at-20.57.38-300x229.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-08-at-20.57.38-1024x783.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-08-at-20.57.38-768x587.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-08-at-20.57.38.jpeg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Seed of Change was organized as part of Founders\u2019 Remembrance Week 2025, in collaboration with Arulagam NGO, to inspire ecological stewardship among students through native seed nurturing and biodiversity conservation. About The initiative marked the beginning of a long-term seed-to-sapling program, engaging first-year students of KCT in nurturing 3,000 native saplings. The journey began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ongoing-projects","tag-biodiversity-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criar.in\/microcosm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}