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Greenvein is a  non profit organisation  for planting and protecting trees. Its vision is to reduce global warming and implement reforestation programs.

Origin
This organisation, which is also known as India's first Billion Tree Foundation was started as a one man movement  at  Haridwar, a district in Uttarakhand after the heavy flood of 2013. Swami Samvidanand, the founder and Chief Coordinator of the organisation started a saplings nursery at Barsu, a village in Rudraprayag district, after the flood which uprooted massive number of trees, in the hope to replant the trees which were lost. And in the same year, the cyclone which threatened Odisha, uprooted around 2. 4 million trees. To spread the idea of planting and protecting trees throughout India, Swami Samvidanand posted a video in his facebook timeline which went viral. A Groups of youngsters followed the post decided to meet at Ernakulam on 6th May 2014, which marks the unofficial inauguration of Greenvein.

Vision and Mission
The vision of Greenvein is to fight and reduce global warming by an active process of reforestation. The attempt is to propagate a culture of planting and protecting trees and make it part of our day to day activity rather than a ritualistic and symbolic process.

One Billion Tree Project
In the first meeting held at Ernakulam a decision was made to plant and protect One Billion Trees across India within 21 years. . Inorder to fulfil the aim, widespread campaigns were initiated. Within a year Greenvein made its presence in Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Odisha. On June 5 2014, World Environment Day, 32,200 saplings were planted in Kerala alone with the support of Ministry of Forest. On the same day saplings were planted in Dehradun, Capital city of Uttarakhand state, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Delhi, Redegg Infopark at  Nagarcoil, Tamil Nadu, Niv Vidya Mandir at Greater Noida, and Navaprabhat Gurukulam , Navupauli village, Odisha.

By 2014, Greenvein started nurseries at Haridwar, Rudraprayag, Noida and Odisha with the help of common people. In Kerala, 10 nurseries were started. In addition to this, Greenvein volunteers maintain many more small nurseries with the capacity to rear  100 saplings to 300 saplings at their homes or surroundings. These nurseries produce approximately 300, 000 saplings per year. And in various states, Greenvein has planted 600, 000 saplings within 2015. On June 5th 2015, Greenvein conducted a seed distribution campaign and distributed approximately 150, 000 seeds on that day.

To fulfil the aim to plant one billion trees, Greenvein has planned and implemented a number of projects. Notable among them are:


 * Birthday Trees
 * Butterfly Parks
 * Environmet day programs
 * Gift a Tree
 * Green Biennale
 * Kaav
 * Kuttivanam ( Mini forest) Projects
 * Nakshathravanam ( Birth Star Tree) Projects
 * River Bank Protection Projects
 * Tree Trip

Tree Trip
Tree Trip is a campaign in the leadership of Swami Samvidanand, Chief Coordinator of Greenvein to create awareness on the necessity of planting and protecting trees and to plant seeds and saplings in every single district of India. This " Himalaya to Kanyakumari" Tree Trip started from Himalaya on 7th of May 2015. Swami Samvidanand leads this journey in a Maruti Alto car. The trip associates with bodies such as Environmental and Ecological organizations, Eco Clubs of Schools and Colleges, Women Empowerment Institutions  and Cultural Societies in each State. The activities of Tree Trip includes distribution of seeds, conducting awareness seminars for school and college students and the native people on the importance of environment conservation and tree planting in this era of global warming. Greenvein initiated this project with "Karthumbikoottam" an organisation of tribal children by introducing the program to plant One Lakh trees in the banks of River Bhavani, which flows through Kerala and Tamil Nadu.