Green Shield- How it began

Two IT professionals sat around with a cup of coffee in hand. They invented the world’s brilliant software but didn’t know what to call it. One of them looked at the coffee mug and read what it said aloud. The other gleamed. “That’s it. That’s what we shall call our software.” And that’s how Yahoo got its name.

Simplicity. That’s what revolves all big companies and famed institutes. And Green shield is no different. Not to sound too ambitious, it’s just the way we began, seemed to have a lot of similarities with them.

It all began on one fine summer afternoon, on May 22nd 2008. We were visiting a laboratory, located in an area far from civilization. It would perhaps be appropriate to call it ‘an educational trip’.

Having past several fields of barren land, strewn concrete and tar, my eyes grew sore. I was horrified at the sight of it. I began to wonder how painful it must have been for someone to witness this green place turn grey. What happened? Why all this mess?

These questions redundantly occurred in my mind. Someone should do something! Maybe... I should do something… Maybe I can form a team, and we can work together and mitigate the effects of pollutant sources. We can be the people who attempt to change the world!

So I looked at my juniors pumped with energy and renewed hope- It was time, to pull things out my thought bubble and put it in a speech bubble!

I looked at Chets- all animated as she recognized a cluster of nimbus- cirrus clouds, Kat drew a blissful smile across her face lest she seemed sleep-deprived and exhausted from her 4 hour journey to Bangalore. Madhu sits right next to Chets patiently drumming her fingers on her knee, and Yogi was lost in her day dream…

Humph… This aint the best opening scene but nonetheless...

“Ahem… Hey guys, I was thinking, maybe we should get together and form a team and do something, you know, something outside college… what say?”
“Heyyyyyyyyyy!!” Chets jumps outta her seat.
“That sounds great!” Katya adds, “That would be cool!” Madhu pitches in and Yogi smiles in agreement.

During the whole journey back and the following two days, we had absolutely zilch idea as to what we would do as a group, but we decided to tackle the issue one by one. So first we had to christen it and inform Rosh and Meg about it.

We went through a list of names we tried, Green Gundas, Ecotree, EnProtect, Green Protect… and then we finally settled with GREEN SHIELD, ‘Guarding today for tomorrow.’