Eco-awareness might be a fashionable green slogan. But its transition to action mode has been slow in the City.

To accelerate this process among students in the City’s estimated 8,200 educational institutions, GIZ, a German bilateral cooperation agency, has come up with a workable idea: Let the students learn from and replicate in their schools the ‘Green Wicket’ project launched recently at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here.