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This is the buzz that Bangalore people are tuned to as more and more cycling enthusiasts join every hour at http://www.gogreengocycling.org for a green environment.

GoGreen org was established by Mr Prabhakar Rao C.M who is well know as GoGreen Rao in the indian Cycling forum. he is born on 15 May 1971. He currently works as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at K.Mohan & Co. Exports Pvt Ltd. Bangalore. With over 20+ years of success in IT department, he does divert his time driving this great initiative. He enjoys his time-off with Mrs. Nalina P Rao, who is a house wife and 2 children - daughter + angel Pranalini Rao C about 8 yrs & son + hero Pranav Rao C about 2 Years old. Mr. Rao who stays at J P Nagar, is a well known personality in Bangalore and other Indian cities.



A little about Mr. Rao in his own words can be read below...

About myself : In the present day lifestyle of desk job and less of physical activities is resulting in different types of health issues. Cycle was the mode of transportation all my college days where I use to Cycle min of 10 kms every day. After all these years of just thinking about myself and my family in 2008 I started thinking about ways to contribute in my own way to Mother nature and save the environment through cycling as means.

My Inspiration for starting this “Go Green Go Cycling” came from watching A Global warming documentary movie “ An inconvenient truth”  (http://www.climatecrisis.net/trailer/  directed by Davis Guggenheim,  Narrated &  presented by former United States Vice President Al Gore.) which kick started my thought process of contributing my part time & my family time to the Mother Nature, felt cycling is one of the best & easy modes to achieve this goal.

Started cycling to office from Sep-2008 but immediately realized cycling alone will not make any difference to the nature until and unless I put forth & share my thoughts to more and more number of people. This prompted me to form a Group by name GGI-Group (Go Green Initiators) simultaneously hosted an organization site by name www.GoGreenGoCycling.org through which I successfully started spreading my thoughts of Going Green.

Apart from Cycling to office regularly, every Sunday we organize GoGreen Campaign Rides in the city taking group members along with new members & cycle inside the city.

During these campaigns we wear our groups GoGreen Jersey through which we pass on the message of Go Green to other fellow citizens and at the same time building confidence to the new members for experiencing the traffic in real scenarios while they cycle with the Group or their office commute.

All that started from an Individual and now we have 2000 plus professional members in the group within the city among which a fair amount of members do cycle to offices regularly.

I have been receiving several honors for initiating Cycling to work in Bangalore involving masses. To name a few recognitions and appreciations are from our Former Karnataka Chief minister Mr. D V Sadananda Gowda, Karanataka State, Urban Minister Mr. Suresh Kumar, Honorable Mayor & Gary Fisher ( Inventor of MTB).It was a great honor to receive recognition from Mr. Gary fisher in person.

I am very thankful to the media and many organizations that have been recognizing me and my group’s efforts to spread the message of going green.

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Awards & Memento received

Go Green group in news

Message to everybody is : " GoGreen, for a better tomorrow, GoCycling"

Contact details are : Email : Prabhakarrao.cm@gmail.com & GoGreenRao@gogreengocycling.org & Mobile No : +91 98450 65950.