Celebrity touch: Raveena plants a green dream .
I met Raveena at the Lotus Eye hospital and it is refreshing to see a star with a passion other than get attention for her looks and acting talent.

TIMES NEWS NETWORK , The Times of India, June 20, 2006, pg. 11

TREE OF LIFE: The actor planted a neem sapling at the ‘A’ ward office in Fort

Mumbai: Actor Raveena Tandon on Monday planted a new seed of hope for the city’s environmental future, when at the launch of a Times Foundation initiative called Green Dream, she planted a neem tree at the ‘A’ ward office in Fort.
Green Dream, which forms a part of environmental and other initiatives taken up by Times Foundation, aims to acts as a model for other municipal wards in the city. The project includes three actions: planting 400 neem trees on government-owned land, both in the ward office compound and elsewhere; deconcretising a border of three inches around 1,230 trees in the ‘A’ ward to allow their roots to breathe; and reinstalling saplings in over 100 tree guards from which the young trees seem mysteriously to have disappeared.
Tandon, who has worked widely to protect mangroves in the western suburbs, said in order to safeguard Mumbai’s environmental future, drastic action needs to be taken.
“People need to clean up their own backyard. We need to become watch-dogs for our own areas,’’ she said.