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The Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) in collaboration with LEAD India, Fountain of Development Research & Action (FODRA), Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), The Climate Project – India (TCP-I), South Asian Youth Environment Network(SAYEN)/United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Center for Environment Education, Delhi Greens and in partnership with the YP Foundation invites all concerned citizens of Delhi to the Delhi Youth Summit on Climate (DYSoC) 2008.

Event Details:

Dates: May 28th and 29th, 2008
Time: 9.30 am onwards
Venue: Teen Murti Bhawan

The two-day summit aims to bring together the youth of Delhi (Class 12th – 30 Years) to discuss, debate, share concerns and find innovative, out-of-the-box solutions to the pressing problems being faced by Delhi, which will only worsen in the wake of climate change. Individuals falling outside this age bracket are most welcome to attend as observers. Participants are to pre-register for the event while observers can spot-register themselves. The idea is to draft out a Delhi Youth Charter on Climate – youth’s vision for the city they will soon inherit. The Charter will be presented to the key decision makers in the city.

The first day (May 28th) will see the inauguration of the Summit by Professor Mridula Mukherjee, Director, NMML, Mr. Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Magazine and Dr Leena Srivastava, Executive-Director, TERI – followed by splitting the day into four sessions, on

• Water,
• Waste,
• Urban Planning, and
• Energy & Transport

A play titled “Climate Change and Health by Jamghat (Sponsored by the World Health Organisation, WHO) will be played at 1400 hours.

The second day (May 29th) will be a capacity building session, the discussion on the draft charter and the submission of the Charter to Mr. J.K. Dadoo, Secretary, Environment, Forest & Wildlife, Govt. of NCT of Delhi and Chairperson, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).

All concerned citizens, activists, academicians, students, teachers and other professionals are requested to attend the Summit.

For more information, and to register: please click on http://iycn.in/dysoc

To find details about the event, write an info-request mail to contact@delhigreens.org

For further queries, please find detailed contact-information here: http://iycn.in/dysoc/contact.html

On January 12, 2008, Padmashree Dr. Anil Joshi along with eleven-member team that included members from 18 to 60 year olds, set on a bicycle Yatra from Kanyakumari to Dehradun to learn first hand about the problems of the farmers and to gather their views and opinion. The Yatra passed through the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi before reaching Uttarakhand on March l6.

This Agri Yatra (on bicycle) covered around 3,800 Km across 65 districts and around 7,000 villages. The Yatra team comprised social activists, students and farmers in the age group of 18 to 60 years and met over one-lakh farmers during the journey. The Yatra team has extensively surveyed the regions visited and it has recorded the views of the farmers.

A photo exhibition on the above is being organized so that the experience of the Yatra could be shared with the society at large and the issues of farming and farmers get highlighted in the right manner.

Legal Initiative for Forest & Environment (LIFE) and PEACE Institute request you to mark your presence to support the issue of Agricultural Land and Farmers. 

Date: 24th, 25th May 2008
Venue: Indian Social Institution Auditorium, 10 Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003

• Download Invitation
• Kanyakumari to Dehradun:- Notes on Cycle-yatra

Fore more information, contact:

Rahul Choudhary
LEGAL INITIATIVE FOR FOREST AND ENVIRONMENT (LIFE)

Previously on Delhi Greens:

• Kanyakumari to Delhi: A Cycle Yatra for a Cause

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Delhi Youth Summit on Climate
( DYSoC 2008 )

Climate change poses the single largest threat to the future of humanity. Scientific reports are now indicating that to slow down the effects of a run-away climate catastrophe, carbon emissions must not exceed 350 ppm. In the wake of this threat, nations around the world are grappling for solutions to establishing pathways to low carbon economies to avoid a wave of mass planetary extinction.

Though we may attempt to fix the problems technologically, it is widely acknowledged that real solutions will only come from changes in lifestyle.

Lifestyles are greatly impacted by none other than the planning of cities—the rise of which gave birth to “civilization.” The unsustainable use of local resources has also in the past lead to the collapse of entire city states. Thus to tackle climate change and the challenges it poses to already struggling developing economies, we must address development issues at the city level.

Many cities around the world are already planning vigorously to reduce emissions and adopt efficient use of energy and resources. In the United States alone, nearly 800 cities have pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol and ensure that emissions from those cities meet the international targets.

Delhi, the seat of power of the world’s largest democracy makes little mention to climate change in its Master Plan 2021. With the capital very much under construction in its attempt to become a “world class city,” there is much to be done to incorporate mitigation and adaptation to the changing climate now, while there is still time. Young people must have their voices heard to ensure their policy perspectives are incorporated in the plans of the decision makers of the city.

The Delhi Youth Summit on Climate (DYSoC) aims to bring together the youth of Delhi, to begin the dialogue on Delhi’s fate in the wake of climate change. In addition, the summit will hammer out a Delhi Youth Charter on Climate: how Delhi can adapt to and mitigate in response to climate change.

Date: 28th and 29th of May, 2008
Time: 9.30 AM onwards
Venue: Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti Bhawan
Age Group: 18 to 30 years (Others are requested to come as observers)

We encourage you to join us and be part of the process!

For further information and participation (registration), click below:

http://iycn.in/dysoc

Pre-Registration is mandatory and shortlisting is being done on a first come first serve basis. 

Question: What do Amitabh Bachan, Aamir Khan and Jackie Shroff have in common?
Answer: Each has a Blog and now you can get talking to them!

The Indian Blog and New Media Society (IBNMS) and Delhi Blog and New Media Society (DBNMS) wants to share this wonderful world of blogging with you and get you started with it!

IBNMS in collaboration with DBNMS proudly present the first ever Blog Camp in Delhi! At BlogCamp Delhi we will get together and discuss/ rant/ brain-storm/ share opinions about blogging technologies & trends. We will cover micro blogging, photo-blogging, video blogging, social media – everything about the world of blogs & new media that interests us.

There will be opportunity to learn about the basics of blogging, attend hands on workshop on creating a new blog and meet like-minded people from the blogging world.   BlogCamps are different in that attendees are strongly encouraged to give a demo, a session, or help with one. If you are not being a speaker, you can help by taking notes of the event, blogging the event live, help to promote the event, or even helping with logistics.   If that got you excited, we will meet on 24th May 2008 (Saturday) at 9:30 AM. You will need to brave the Delhi traffic and reach the venue:   Microsoft Corp 5th Floor, Eros Towers Nehru Place, New Delhi  

Some of the sessions already volunteered for are:

• Beating the Spam on blogosphere- Looking beyond Akismet, anirudhsharma dot crypto at gmail dot com
• The 4Ps of Marketing Your Blog – How to generate traffic by Ajay Jain, ajay@ajayjain.com
• Open Access – What it is and why it is required for scholarly community? esukhdev at gmail dot com
• Corporate Blogging Strategy – Abhishek Kant
• Blog Branding – Turning Blog into Business – Prashant Sharma
• How to monetize a blog effectively? How to enhance earnings from a Blog? – By Mohit Maheshwari MD Tonic Tag
• Setting up a new blog – Amit Gupta

Register for the event by adding your name here: http://www.barcamp.org/BlogCampDelhi
(There is no registration fee for the event, you just need to add your name to the page) 

Please help us spread the word by forwarding this invite to your friends!
Join the IBNMS here & Delhi Bloggers Group here.

For more information, please contact:

Ashsih
+91 989 197 7333

Gol Market, New Delhi

Dare to take a U – TURAN !?

Girdling of Peepul Tree raises concern amidst people

While trees across the city are facing the axe and “development” pressure and infrastructure up-gradation is taking its toll, concerned citizens are now coming out in the open to protest against the disappearing greens.

Anadish Kumar Pal (right), a resident of Pitampurais one such city-dweller who has been protesting against the pitiful way in which a Peepul tree has been girdled in his neighbourhood. He, along with three other signatories filed a general police complaint regarding the damage done to this tree, which would will surely kill the tree sooner than later.

Pal has already written to the Deputy Conservator of Forests-cum-Tree Officer, Environment Secretary and to the Chief Minister. He has also been reported to be threatened by another resident.

Click here to read the media story on the incident (Times of India)

To contact Anadish Kumar Pal and extend your support, you can get in touch with him at anadish@gmail.com or at 9868010604 

Another Victim…

…at Gol Dak Khana, New Delhi

The strong winds and rains in the last few days have damaged many a branches and felled several trees. Notable among those, are the ones like above; that have been concretized from all sides, leaving no space for support, damaging anchorage and facilitating a slow-death, hastened only by freak weather events, that the city has been experiencing since the last few days. Such trees have no choice but to uproot themselves at the slightest possible opportunity. Suicide or organised murder – one can only wonder?

Toxics Link’s Environment & Health Public Lecture Series 

Toxics Link, in collaoration with the India International Center, invites concerned citizens to a Pubilc Lecture on “Bio-Fuel: An Alarm bell on food security?”

The concept of bio-fuel is fast gaining popularity, as the world tries to become progressively environment – friendly. Worldwide awareness about green house gas emissions, global warming as well as the spiraling oil prices pushes us to seek for alternate energy sources. Experts claim bio-fuel to be the only way out. Conversely this will stake a claim on the food stock of the world.

The ever-growing food prices and the food related riots reported from countries like Haiti and Egypt indicate that the situation has already gone from bad to worse. Still more and more land has been converted for bio- fuel cultivation instead of food and million of tons of corn; sugar cane and soya are getting converted to fuel leaving millions to starve.

In India too, cultivation of Jatropha spreads to fertile land, which were earlier, used for food grains. To meet the target of reducing fossil fuel consumption of about 20% by 2011, 98 million acres of land is being used for Jatropha cultivation.

Is bio-fuel playing such havoc on the food security of the world?  Can bio-fuel replace the fossil fuel completely and save our planet from global warming and further disasters?

Date: 23rd May, 2008
Time: 6.30 PM
Venue: Conference Room 1, Indian International Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Panelists:

• V. Rahguraman, Principal Adviser, Energy & Environment, CII
• Shalini Bhuttani, Regional Programme Officer, GRAIN
• Dr. Ramesh Singh Chouhan, Bio-fuel expert, Dragon EXIM India Pvt. Ltd.  

Moderated by Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link

 Download Invitation

RSVP : Pragya Majumder
T: 24320711, 24328006
W: www.toxicslink.org

The Center for Science & Environment (CSE) is looking for School/College Students who wish to volunteer or do a Summer Internship with its various wings.  Those interested or wanting to know more about this should immediately get in touch at the below-mentioned contact info. Seats are limited so apply asap.

The student volunteers would get a chance to understand a bit more about environment and contribute further to the very important cause of environment awareness by working with CSE . An honorarium of Rs. 100/- per day would also be given to student volunteers.

Contact: Ramachandran at: rchandran@cseindia.org, 98106 41996.

Chat on 18th May 2008

Log in to IndianWildlifeclub.comfor an online chat on “Role of Urban Birds” between 7.30 PM (IST) and 8.30 PM (IST) on 18th May 2008.

The chat will be moderated by Dr. M Shah Hussain, who is is the Scientist Incharge of Aravalli Biodiversity Park, New Delhi. He is attached to the Center for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) of the School of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi.

Click Here to reach the chat room on the said day and time, after registering as a member.

You can also click HEREto see transcripts of the earlier chat sessions. This chat was earlier scheduled to take place last month.

Previously on DelhiGreens:

• “GM Foods and Biodiversity”, IWC’s Monthly Online Chat