Fabian Panthaki

Community Sustainability | Zero-Waste Academy @GAIAnoburn l Swachhta Saarthi Fellow @wasteto_wealth | Ex-Swachh Ambassador @MCD_Delhi | Views are personal.

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

Delighted to have NDTV cover our Community Building & #wastemanagement efforts. We continue helping other Delhi colonies turn Sustainable too.

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[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

Class violence comes in many forms. As always, tolerance and kindness in such short supply.

#Mumbai

[sushma date @sushmadate]

This is regarding the large scale removal of Glyricidia plantation near the parking lot of Vetal Tekdi over the last week by the Forest Department.

I am getting a lot of panic stricken calls about it, so I think it's best to clarify the situation

Two hectares of Forest land have been cleared by Forest dept here (in addition to 2 more hectares on the same tekdi behind ARAI building). This is part of the State Govt's directive to the Forest Department to cull Glyricidia on identified patches on Pune's hills and replace them with a dense Miyawaki plantation of native species (30k saplings per hectare of land).

Glyricidia being an invasive exotic species, planted on the tekdis in the 1990s as a monoculture, needs to be removed in a step by step manner, as it is not allowing native species to flourish. However we at VTBKS have grave concerns about replacing it with a dense Miyawaki plantation which is not suitable for the dry deciduous scrub forest and grassland that is the tekdi's native ecosystem.

Despite several meetings and appeals, we could not convince the Forest dept to scrap the highly water intensive Miyawaki method and instead use a more scientific method to restore the tekdi's natural ecosystem. They said they had to follow the State govt directive

The good news is that we did manage to convince the Forest dept to allow us to use one hectare of the two hectares cleared near the parking lot to conduct a scientific restoration project under the guidance of Ms Ketaki Ghate of Oikos and Ecological Society. Ketaki has been working on ecosystem restoration projects all over India since the last 25 years and is well recognised and respected in her field.

Under Ketaki's guidance and with the help of the Forest Department, this hectare will be fenced (using natural material) and a judicious plantation of tekdi specific species of canopy and small trees, shrubs and herbs will be planted which, over a few years will bring back the lost biodiversity on the hill

With this restoration project we hope to convince the state policy makers to abandon Miyawaki in favour of a more scientific restoration program for the tekdis of Pune.

Plantation should not be about showcasing mere numbers but about restoring lost ecosystems. 🙏🏼

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@mybmc @myBESTElectric
There is an urgent and immediate situation, with super-senior citizens at risk. Your digging of our street has snapped the power line and we have no response from the electricity dept. One person has died due to lack of power for their oxygen machine.

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@SwiggyCares Again, rather not. It's a simple question and you should be open to offering a public answer right here to all customers of your product.

So - why say 'No Preservatives' when there is a clearly-marked preservative in the recipe?

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

Had to break my long silence here to post this absolute gem of consumer gaslighting. Care to explain @instamart_it ?

@fssaiindia

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@SwiggyCares @instamart_it @fssaiindia Let's keep this public, since this is a publicly-sold product and all customers deserve to know. Transparency is important.

[sushma date @sushmadate]

My heart breaks over what PMC and its political backers have done to Pune's river.
Yes, people should be connected to rivers - but like this?!

A better version of a riverside recreational space would have been something like this. This is a riverside park in Taipei where
1. Natural materials have been used (not concrete),
2. Flood plains have been preserved
3. Habitats created for birds, insects and small fauna

This would have come at a fraction of the cost of Pune's RFD, is aesthetically more appealing, and could have been designed to suit our native ecosystem with the help of riverine ecologists.
🧵

[Ajay Dubey @Ajaydubey9]

MP Govt has cleared 396 hectrs of Pachmarhi Sanctuary land for"town development."This move threatens the fragile Satpura foothills and ignores the ecological cost.I will challenge this decision in court to protect our forests🌳
#SavePachmarhi #Satpura #Wildlife @CMMadhyaPradesh

[Bahar Dutt @bahardutt]

My ground report on how punes citizens are fighting to save the river from real estate sharks .in the name of development we are making #Pune susceptible to #floods @SVYadwadkar @AUThackeray @sushmadate @Indian_Rivers @Jeevitnadi @CMOMaharashtra

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@deepigoyal Methinks the billionaire doth protest too much.

[Bhavreen Kandhari @BhavreenMK]

Inspite of bio-mining, dumping of 3,000-3,500 MT continues daily at Ghazipur/Bhalswa landfill, over & above the incineration, adding to emissions.

Big question is, will 2026 be about real systemic SWM reform or quick fixes? @MCD_Delhi needs to move beyond Navjivan Vihar PR.

[Bhavreen Kandhari @BhavreenMK]

This is the so called ‘waste to energy’ plant in Okhla, this morning. No matter GRAP or not, these WtE plants continue to add emissions & toxicity in a city thats already choking.
WtE is a result of failure of non implementation of solid waste management rules 2016. @PMOIndia

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@MasalaBai Stress & anxiety may likely physically aggravate your condition. Change. Immediately.

Dr. Dinesh Talwar is a great option for retina. Doesn't suffer fools, but is gruffly patient with genuine cases.

[100 Climate Messages @climatemessages]

#COP30

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@iamdatemike Unconditionally muting blue-tickers after two click-baiting tweets.

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@sanjayuvacha @Airbnb Ironic, given that locals don't want Airbnb anymore because it has created a system of absentee owners that have led to buildings full of short-term rentals and destroyed the communities by pushing prices higher.

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

The #Mumbai - #Delhi rivalry is eternal.

"Life-harming smog? #AQI of 750+? Most Polluted City title? Not so quick buddy. We're going to burst #fireworks for 5 hours straight, no festival, no celebration, aise hi just. How do you like THEM apples?"

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

@iamdatemike Anna just wants to sell more filters.

Excess hydration = water intoxication.

Body needs enough 'fluids', not water. If the mouth ain't dry at any point in the day, you're doing fine.

[Fabian Panthaki @faabian]

It seems like Mumbaikars and @MumbaiPolice have just given up on combating noise pollution. Dhol-taashas and fireworks going on late into the night, at way-above-legal decibels, near hospitals. No enforcement. Regular occurrence.

Truly, the tragedy of the commons.

[Warrior Moms @Warriormomsin]

A new Indo-Italian study shows Delhi’s Red Fort is being eaten away by air pollution, its red sandstone walls now coated in toxic black crusts from sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides & fine particulates.
@CPCB_OFFICIAL @CAQM_Official @MoHFW_INDIA @UNESCO @ASIGoI

Delhi’s air isn’t just scarring the Red Fort with black crusts, it’s doing the same to us. The difference? We can’t see the damage to our lungs the way we see it on sandstone. From 2021–23, PM2.5 was 2.5× above safe limits. The fort is crumbling in stone, we are crumbling inside😢
@SophiyaMathew1 @IndianExpress