tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6554330183499590192024-02-19T11:12:52.847-08:00Youth @ the Conference-The Youth Blog of the Earth Charter+10 Conference, 1st-3rd November 2010, Ahmedabad, India-Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-72017818897429003132010-12-27T04:24:00.001-08:002010-12-27T04:27:21.666-08:00ENOUGH TALK- WE WANT ACTION NOW!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuWY-2IPmOp0HRp8bdmL_CREzlGpWuljWXJzZtjShSvxQZ8Q_K6L6jLCm_vrqiqsCnoqAE_5rVhktnTyzEjeiGsiUxCM1Y9lfF1IrEhwQTr8mP7aNM55EQn6rawnQrjrqGqReWHL6QO0/s1600/yuth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKuWY-2IPmOp0HRp8bdmL_CREzlGpWuljWXJzZtjShSvxQZ8Q_K6L6jLCm_vrqiqsCnoqAE_5rVhktnTyzEjeiGsiUxCM1Y9lfF1IrEhwQTr8mP7aNM55EQn6rawnQrjrqGqReWHL6QO0/s400/yuth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-72420233541695872082010-12-19T23:10:00.000-08:002010-12-19T23:10:14.663-08:00What stays?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After removing the last tracks of the Earth Charter+10 Conference on the CEE Campus in Ahmedabad, everything became quiet again. The number of people reduced tragically but luckily the number of animals increased again. Monkeys and peacocks enjoy the calm atmosphere.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nothing reminds to the over 500 people hanging around on the campus to decide and discuss how to make the world a better place for our children and children-children. </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Is this all forgotten now? What stays? <br />
There stay many things. Some of them we forget someday. <br />
But there’s at least one thing we still have in mind which we won’t forget: <br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We can act. And we have to act.</b> <br />
Youth- we are the leaders of tomorrow, the world will be in our hands and we have to make sure that everybody get the healthy and good environment they deserve.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This conference is the beginning of our action. In some cases only a continuation. Take it as an inspiration. But take it as a something. <br />
We will start now- enough talking, acting is necessary. And we all know this. So let’s take the wise words of all the speakers to create awareness, to fight, to spread, that we get what we want!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s stand together and due to Mahatma Gandhiji’s word<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: “Be the change you want to see in the world!”</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Get up stand up: Stand up for your rights! </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Bob Marley)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you do? What do you need? How to come together? </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Share all this with us; somewhere and somehow. Use this platform, use another one, but use something. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-73427985570075111942010-11-03T04:50:00.000-07:002010-11-03T04:59:48.181-07:00Day 2 of the conference...<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Youth - the leaders of tomorrow!</span></span></u></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWKjoMxEKx1E5Zy807sgfKgFdhWRt7JjFVM_tvCBQkynfDUPGkqXruoNKjL8MiElE3Ho8L1gFQUSlz2ujerzsXDCWLU4n-5LO1v-4hyX-CSj5YvTTYWpt8wazUOshoLfSGSWgQOgZqHY/s1600/youth-voices2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFWKjoMxEKx1E5Zy807sgfKgFdhWRt7JjFVM_tvCBQkynfDUPGkqXruoNKjL8MiElE3Ho8L1gFQUSlz2ujerzsXDCWLU4n-5LO1v-4hyX-CSj5YvTTYWpt8wazUOshoLfSGSWgQOgZqHY/s1600/youth-voices2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The conference and the workshops have become more interesting with the energy and enthusiasm brought in by the youth participants. The “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Youth Corner</b>” has been set, where collage making, games and other activities are being undertaken by the youth under the umbrella theme of “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sustainable lifestyles and consumption</b>”. The youth is conveying strong messages of how consumption choices can make a difference. The youth has been playing an integral role in all the workshops - when asked about their experiences from the workshop in one word; the answers that were received were- Informative, knowledgeable, different, interesting, thought-provoking, boring and too comprehensive. But overall a lot of learning is being imbibed by the youth through this conference and workshops; the youth is also contributing towards them by sharing their opinions. The youth is indulging into various discussions and deliberations on facebook and twitter page of the conference, and through other social media tools like blogs and websites. One of the youth participants Mr. Hemant Sahal represented the youth, conveying their voices in the plenary on “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Education of sustainable development</b>”. He talked about values & principles being communicated through education, he also quoted that “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It is not difficult to do the right thing, but to understand what is right</b>”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gusto of the youth participants was also seen when they opined themselves during the virtual conference that took place in the evening, between the alumni, e-glo administrators, volunteers, EC members and youth participants from different corners of the world, virtually interacting with each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> - Shraddha Ganwani</div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-60526218334689921322010-11-03T04:47:00.000-07:002010-11-03T05:00:39.158-07:00Day 1 of the conference....<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Generation next: our voices</span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The wait is finally over, the much awaited conference on “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ethical Framework for a sustainable world</b>” started on the 1<sup>st</sup> November, 2010. The youth was seen in action from the very beginning of the conference, there is a “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Youth Corner</b>”, which is set up by the youth for conveying strong messages of sustainable lifestyles, and consumption patterns, and they are also placing their opinions on various aspects of creating a sustainable world like biodiversity, CSR, Role of ICT in creating environmental consciousness, ESD, global challenges and governance, spirituality, school education and teacher training etc. The activity of putting thumb prints for depicting action is being done on canvass by all the participants, there are beautiful depictions in the form of collage, portraits, paintings made by the youth themselves. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1D6AQ69dSatS5Ol1IDCHw-I81CLHEzKSQfUdIwFBNgoYciJpsboOnL-J5roZsXF7btGtQ-yW5AZi9Rondwo8lQ4Oodxtgjqx0IHkK-z19i2IeWFOtsu-Sf9MPHMttDyj306xLWvDFuw/s1600/DSC_0276+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="105" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1D6AQ69dSatS5Ol1IDCHw-I81CLHEzKSQfUdIwFBNgoYciJpsboOnL-J5roZsXF7btGtQ-yW5AZi9Rondwo8lQ4Oodxtgjqx0IHkK-z19i2IeWFOtsu-Sf9MPHMttDyj306xLWvDFuw/s320/DSC_0276+-+Copy.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The youth participants were bifurcated into various groups that attended the workshops that took place on ten thematic themes. All the participants met in the evening to share what they learnt from their respective workshops and how they could contribute towards it better, and what more were they expecting from the workshops in the next two days. The youth thought that the workshops were extremely knowledgeable and inspiring, but they wanted the workshops to be more interactive and engaging.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The youth participants have been significantly adding to the conference by playing their roles as rapporteurs, volunteers, & participants who have fresh ideas and are ready to implement on them. One of the youth representatives also represented the next generation in the plenary discussion on climate change. We as youth realize our responsibilities, and are striving to offer our energy and capabilities towards creating a better future.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s time to become activists and not just thinkers; it’s time to learn from the experience of the older generation and collating that with our curiosity and capacity towards attaining sustainability for our future & the future of the generations to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> -Shraddha Ganwani</span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-72978950936723842242010-11-01T09:20:00.000-07:002010-11-03T05:01:57.162-07:00Pre Conference Workshop....<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 2.0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBgnGeXOOVgM2WR_h8HtqJjuKvs1eoYq96y7o5ODXocNWOvuXRTMEV3cqVgJ6g6PmYCTUBGcNpinoDGDocVnqD9GmblsZGrZOKwZrOimthwgWmPvg-PcXYOjHXDegniYga3taSh0JK4g/s1600/Youth+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBgnGeXOOVgM2WR_h8HtqJjuKvs1eoYq96y7o5ODXocNWOvuXRTMEV3cqVgJ6g6PmYCTUBGcNpinoDGDocVnqD9GmblsZGrZOKwZrOimthwgWmPvg-PcXYOjHXDegniYga3taSh0JK4g/s320/Youth+collage.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-IN">The pre-conference workshop on strategising youth participation at the 3 day conference was organised on <date day="31" month="10" w:st="on" year="2010">31<sup>st</sup> October 2010</date> at CEE. 71 youth pursuing different professional courses participated in this workshop to bring in their perspective into the conference. The workshop started with interesting ice-breaking sessions that helped the participants to know each other. This was followed by Mrs. Madhavi Joshi’, address. Mrs Joshi is the Programmes head at CEE, who gave the participants a background of Earth Charter, and the conference.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 2.0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 2.0in;"><span lang="EN-IN">Mr. Steven Rockefeller, Chair, Earth Charter International Council and Mr. Kartikeya V. Sarabhai, Director, CEE set the tone for this workshop through an interactive session on the Earth Charter and its relevance in the world today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Steven Rockfeller, then entertained some questions asked by enthusiastic and curious youth, he answered all the questions in such an interesting way that everyone was caught in rapt attention.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 2.0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 2.0in;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was followed by working group sessions where the youth discussed their reflections on the Earth Charter principles and their expectations from the 10 workshops. Ms. Satwant Kaur, Regional Information Officer, UNEP ROAP helped facilitate the working group sessions along with the SAYEN mentors, Govind Singh and Utsav Maden. This session allowed for an energetic debate on various issues such as access to vs. potential of ICTs, need for consultative policy decision making, and the issue of understanding religion and spirituality and the idea of oneness. Together they decided that they would participate in the conference as workshop rapporteurs, plenary speakers, facilitators, and volunteers.</span><br />
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- Shraddha Ganwani</div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-42579715197242580402010-10-30T03:24:00.000-07:002010-10-30T05:31:08.596-07:00...2 days left<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="font-size: small;">EC+10: Higher Education Workshop</span></u></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5B0UWRQfpO6_GbhS7fpKo9JnC-gvzn-IfWcb0DhXBHloix60MJYNJxdHJEvRIgetFVd89nIq7fLwrakKIBBIyzj7V9Pv4BoZh_fSAtz5x-GD8FKNmmSef2qkMvIa2-HbQthXd0uoF4mU/s1600/P1100389.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5B0UWRQfpO6_GbhS7fpKo9JnC-gvzn-IfWcb0DhXBHloix60MJYNJxdHJEvRIgetFVd89nIq7fLwrakKIBBIyzj7V9Pv4BoZh_fSAtz5x-GD8FKNmmSef2qkMvIa2-HbQthXd0uoF4mU/s200/P1100389.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">Only two days before the conference the whole youth-organisation team is busy. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writing canvas, posters, planning activities,.... And of course not only in our youth department, all over the campus everybody is occupied getting ready and preparing everything that is not fixed yet.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For all the youth participants, the conference already starts tomorrow morning, 10pm, with the pre-conference workshop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For everybody else (and of course for the not-too-busy-participants also) we have an announcement:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> As you probably know by now, one of the workshops will deal with Higher Education.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And since you are exactly the ones directly concerned by the issues of Higher Education, I'm sure you will be interested in joining the discussion on the conference website under</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u>http://earthcharterplus10.org/workshopthemes_higher_education.html</u></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Earth Charter already is an important tool in some 400 educational institutions all over the world and has been very usefull as valuable teaching intstrument. Is your university one of it?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Share YOUR experience with us: How did you learn about the Earth Charter, was it part of your curriculum? What do you think is the best way to introduce the Earth Charter as tool in the education system?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And what is your answer to the following questions? </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Q1. - 'What do you think should be the approaches & strategies to introduce the principles of EC in Higher Education (HE) and the future priorities of HE vis-a-vis the earth charter principles?' </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Q2. – ‘considering our interest to incorporate sustainability into HE, how can the Decade of ESD and the upcoming Rio+20 help on these?' </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Q3. - 'Do you think that networks at Global, regional and sub-regional levels will be helpful in implementing the EC principles at HE level? If yes, how and which networks?' </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Q4. - 'What role should the governments and Authorities Governing Higher Education Systems play to effectively translate the principles of EC into action?' </div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-10749626726059318652010-10-28T23:31:00.000-07:002010-10-30T05:02:36.032-07:00...3 days left<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">Only three more days to go and the event, which everybody at CEE is working towards to, is finally going to start. The whole campus seems to buzz of activity; every day new people from all over the world arrive.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">On the lawns, huge tents for the plenaries and also for the food court are being put up and every person passing you seems to be incredibly busy.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">That is the situation right now; I guess that the excitement all around us will rise from day to day.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"><span style="color: black;">First pre-meetings already started today which made us kind of realize, that the conference really is as close as our countdown tells us. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For all the people coming next week - and of course for everybody else interested also - we upload the current Programme Outline:</span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">International Conference on Ethical Framework for a Sustainable World</span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0070c0;">Ahmedabad, India, 1-3 November 2010</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Programme Outline</span></span></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><tbody>
<tr> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(146, 208, 80); border: 1pt solid black; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Time / Date</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(146, 208, 80); border-color: black black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">1<sup>st</sup> November 2010</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(146, 208, 80); border-color: black black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">2<sup>nd</sup> November 2010</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(146, 208, 80); border-color: black black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">3<sup>rd</sup> November 2010</span></span></div></td> <td style="border: medium none;" width="0"><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">08:00 – 09:00</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 112, 192); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Registration</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 112, 192); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Registration</span></span></div></td> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">09:00 am at Sabarmati Ashram</span></span></div></td> <td style="border: medium none;" width="0"><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr style="height: 16pt;"> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; height: 16pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">09:30 – 11:00</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary: 1</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Inauguration</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary: 4</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Education for Sustainable Development-1</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;"></span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary: 6</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Threads of Sustainability</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div></td> <td height="21" style="border: medium none; height: 16pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 16pt;"> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">10:45 – 11:00 Tea</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Tea at Ashram</span></span></div></td> <td height="21" style="border: medium none; height: 16pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 16.15pt;"> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">11:00 – 13:00</span></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary: 2</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Earth Charter</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Keynote: Mr. Steven Rockefeller</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">11:00 – 11: 30 Tea</span></span></div></td> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Transfer to CEE</span></span></div></td> <td height="22" style="border: medium none; height: 16.15pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 69.25pt;"> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 69.25pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">WS 2 (11:30 – 13:00)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600;">Experiences and perspectives of how to include sustainability in HE</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Moderator: Jim Taylor, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Speakers: Ryokichi Hirono, Alicia Jimenez, Qing Tian, MNB Nair</span></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 69.25pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">WS 4 (12:00 – 13:30)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600;">Final Discussion, recommendations, future priorities and forging partnerships for the next decade</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Facilitated by Jim Taylor, Alicia Jimenez & Simanta Kalita </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"></span></span></div></td> <td height="92" style="border: medium none; height: 69.25pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 14.65pt;"> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; height: 14.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">13:00 – 14:00</span></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 14.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 275pt;" valign="top" width="367"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Lunch</span></span></div></td> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><td height="20" style="border: medium none; height: 14.65pt;" width="0"><br />
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<tr style="height: 14.65pt;"> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 14.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Lunch</span></span></div></td> <td height="20" style="border: medium none; height: 14.65pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 14.65pt;"> <td rowspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; height: 14.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">14:00 0 16:00</span></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 14.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">WS 1</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600;">The Earth Charter in Higher Education</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Moderator: Alicia Jimenez</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Speakers: Rick Clugston, Jim Taylor, Priyankar Upadhyaya, Praveen Bist</span></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 14.65pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">WS 3</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff6600;">Indicators and assessment tools for sustainability</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Moderator: Jim Taylor </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: green;">Speakers: Alicia Jimenez, Marie K Harder</span></span></div></td> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><td height="20" style="border: medium none; height: 14.65pt;" width="0"><br />
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<tr style="height: 31.9pt;"> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 31.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary: 7</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Future Visioning</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div></td> <td height="43" style="border: medium none; height: 31.9pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr style="height: 16.15pt;"> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">16:00 – 16:30</span></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 275pt;" valign="top" width="367"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Tea (Book launches)</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; height: 16.15pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary: 8</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Conclusions</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div></td> <td height="22" style="border: medium none; height: 16.15pt;" width="0"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">16:30 – 18:00</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary:3</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Climate Change</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 94, 94); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Plenary:5</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Education for Sustainable Development-1</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;"></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: white;">Keynote: Mr. Jairam Ramesh, MoS, MoEF</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(166, 166, 166); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">High Tea</span></span></div></td> <td style="border: medium none;" width="0"><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(250, 191, 143); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 54.9pt;" valign="top" width="73"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">18:00 – 18:30</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(194, 214, 155); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.5pt;" valign="top" width="169"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Earth Care Award Exhibition</span></span></div></td> <td style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(194, 214, 155); border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 148.5pt;" valign="top" width="198"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">Paryavaran Mitra Event</span></span></div></td> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color black black -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 143pt;" valign="top" width="191"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-67302431421080715622010-10-28T02:33:00.000-07:002010-10-28T23:24:52.637-07:00...4 days left<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u>EC+10: Interview No. 3</u></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today, we spoke to Annie Gregory and Dhrumil Patel </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">from the Paryavaran Mitra programme about their role at the Earth Charter+10 Conference.</span><br />
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Decades of environmental mismanagement have led to several negative consequences, making the global governance on ethical framework to be adopted for sustainable development inevitable. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="166headstart.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_0" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 139.9pt; margin-left: -1.9pt; margin-top: 1.95pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 139.75pt; z-index: 1;" type="#_x0000_t75"><imagedata o:title="166headstart" src="file:///C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="square"></wrap></shape><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are major challenges that are being forced by economies around the world, in the path of sustainable development at no cost on environmental quality. The climate change is one of the most disquieting issues for the environmentalists and governments; one of the causes for this climatic change is the <span class="body1"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Emissions of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Major initiatives like the Kyoto protocol in 1997, were taken for stabilization & reduction of greenhouse gas emission, but were in vain. The huge tasks that lie in store for the governments are</span></span> determining how to clean up legacy problems, restore natural resources; and designing strategies to allow for future growth, while protecting the environment, maintaining biodiversity, thereby safeguarding human health, and preserving cultural/ social values. Another challenge for the countries of the globe is the pattern of consumption of energy sources. <span class="body1"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Consumption of all types of energy has increased, with development, & the highest being consumption of fossil fuels, with not much growth in creation of renewable energy. </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="body1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Global Governance has thus become the key for acquiring sustainability and facing these challenges effectively. The inter-dependence of nations, in terms of resources and environment is strong and the synergy that can be reaped is critical, there is a requirement to promote coherent policies and implement on them. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Among the different fields of global governance, environmental management is the most wanting in urgent answers to the crisis in the form of collective actions by the whole of the human community<span class="body1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. </span></span>Climate change, ocean and air pollution, recycling and reuse pattern, energy efficiency, nuclear risks and those related to genetic manipulation, the reduction and extinction of resources and biodiversity, and above all a development model that remains largely unquestioned globally are all among the various manifestations of this accelerated and probably irreversible impact of human activities on nature. </span></span></span><br />
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Good CSR is about maximizing the company’s positive impact on the society, while maximizing returns.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">It is about using innovation to find creative and value-added solutions to societal and environmental challenges.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> With the growing importance of stakeholders, the concept of CSR has become inevitable for the success of a business unit. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">With climate change being a major concern and the rise in carbon emissions, potential of environmental accidents, and huge consumption of both renewable and non-renewable resources, the role of industries and business to protect the environment is gaining more significance. How can a business unit help in environmental protection? </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The answer is tied up in the amount of energy it uses - and the contribution this energy use makes towards issues such as climate change. Today, it is extremely crucial for the business units to adopt usage of alternative energy and help in conservation of natural resources.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLSMhau8nI3qNoWgjOTtap2hJQMKGxhuQk3qS-OO64GiHfSgKu-1ATa82s2mTYPar0DxiNamFYUYDB7W1IZcaQHvgy3uWhpSlk3X0EcUYwJmOu1xkND25pIQcv1SNSmqjeob9iyIisLE/s1600/green-economy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLSMhau8nI3qNoWgjOTtap2hJQMKGxhuQk3qS-OO64GiHfSgKu-1ATa82s2mTYPar0DxiNamFYUYDB7W1IZcaQHvgy3uWhpSlk3X0EcUYwJmOu1xkND25pIQcv1SNSmqjeob9iyIisLE/s320/green-economy.jpg" width="211" /></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With green economy, the core is to promote social economy and business to transform into high energy efficiency, low energy consumption and low carbon emission. Eminent business houses like Nestle, Corporate Express- Australia, and Hindustan Unilever have taken initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains. There are others like Google, Infosys, Kingston, Ford Motors, ATIS, etc who have taken several green initiatives for sustainability. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initiatives taken for building green economy by corporate will not only help the society and development of the world, but also the corporate houses involved. It will strengthen interaction with consumers, and promote green business development with the help of innovations in utilization of energy; it will also attach importance to low-carbon technology creation, it will help build strong relations with all the stakeholders, and thereby help in creating the goodwill and brand value for the organization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But for this, there is a requirement that all the corporate houses around the world, collaborate and share knowledge on global trends, challenges and thereby reaching to conclusions about the best practices that can be adopted for development of green economy framework. Do you think that all the business houses will realize the importance of environmental and ethical development? Can there be an integration of such activities undertaken throughout the world? Is it possible to get all the corporate houses to think alike and work towards low carbon economy? If yes when will this happen?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-Shraddha Ganwani</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-24293716445345440982010-10-24T23:43:00.000-07:002010-10-25T02:53:15.136-07:00The Role Of Youth In The Conference....<div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We have been incessantly talking about what youth can do for ethical and sustainable development, but what is exactly to be done and how, is still ambiguous. The initiative has been taken now with the help of this conference, one of the most crucial aspects of this conference is to engage youth, so that they get a platform to opine, to express their views, to put forward the ideas that they feel will help in this process of creating a sustainable world. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXp6mpcrnqev4Kh6CIWUez07kcoacBXVHpu1dBnKJuoxMxgEJP4Q4OPp31RwooBL8XGR_NyZ-q6rrCdnzpHE3FVStAMa1jQA9rFdGzdwWXCKLpXsiHtmlsFTK49JW6B0LapXWX7hsas1Y/s1600/The_Power_of_Youth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="137" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXp6mpcrnqev4Kh6CIWUez07kcoacBXVHpu1dBnKJuoxMxgEJP4Q4OPp31RwooBL8XGR_NyZ-q6rrCdnzpHE3FVStAMa1jQA9rFdGzdwWXCKLpXsiHtmlsFTK49JW6B0LapXWX7hsas1Y/s200/The_Power_of_Youth.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why do we want youth participation? – As we have discussed earlier, the role of youth in development of the world and in saving the environment is extremely significant. <b>We as youth are smart, savvy and we have our stern grounds, we conceive of our own power, we can initiate, influence, decide, and execute. We are the ones who will be responsible for creating a beautiful tomorrow</b>, so why not become a part of this drive and work towards equitable distribution of resources among the countries of the world, and also for the generation that is going to come.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Looking at the role youth will have in the bigger spectrum of life and sustainability tomorrow, we have decided to involve the youth in this planning process that will take place in the conference, where deliberations and discussions will take place to decide on activities to be undertaken to ensure the realization of objectives. We have defined different roles for the youth in this conference, which will lead to their benefit and ours. We have <b>youth as plenary speakers</b>, who will represent the youth in the world, talking about the role of youth, in various aspects of environmental development from formal/non-formal education, to usage of ICT, to spiritual, ethical, religious connotations attached to it, biodiversity, and to how integrated development can take place in cities, communities, countries and in turn the world. We have <b>youth as facilitators</b> who are helping us achieving synergy; we have <b>youth as a part of volunteers</b> and interns who are helping us in organizing this workshop. <b>The objective of bringing in youth from all areas of the education, training, and professions to organize and participate, is to have fresh ideas, and newer ways & methods that can be adopted for creating a sustainable world.</b> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>We recognize the power of youth in today’s world, and their potential to create a difference. It’s time that the youth got the opportunity to voice their opinions firmly, in regards to political, social, economical, and environmental development</b>. We need cooperation from your end, come become a part this conference, decide on what role do you want to play in the conference and offer a helping hand in creating a better tomorrow, for us and for the generations to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">- Shraddha Ganwani</span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-29248764541517331312010-10-24T22:18:00.000-07:002010-10-24T22:45:25.234-07:00...7 days left<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><u>EC+10: Religion & Spirituality Workshop</u></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’m a catholic Christian. I grew up in a small village in a rural area. My friends are catholic and protestant Christians. Some people in my village are Muslims. But I don’t know one of them. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don’t know how their religion looks like. I don’t know what they are praying every day. I have never read their holy book. I don’t know nothing about Allah. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All I know is that women have to cover their heads and that they fast when it is Ramadan. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But I never understood why women have to cover their head. Why people fast for such a long time and only eat when it is dark.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why don’t I know that? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because I never had people telling me. I never had friends going to a mosque. I was never part in a community that really cared for the Islam. And I never really cared.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can continue. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I came to India I didn’t know anything about Hinduism. I didn’t know much about Muslims. I didn’t know much about any other religion. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">India = Hinduism. India = Muslims. India = all kind of religions. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That didn’t change the fact that I knew nothing about all this. And that I did not care. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I started asking myself: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why don’t I care? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why don’t we care? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why are we so focused on our own thing? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why are we living in our small perfect world? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why are we intolerant in ignorant? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One Example:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why does the world ignore facts like the happening here in Gujarat in 2002? Why does no one spread it everywhere?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was in Germany at that time, still very young. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did not care about happenings like this. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No one cared around me. No one told me. No one spoke about it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I heard about it when I decided to go to India. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I started to care. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Muslims attack Hindus in a train. Hindus attack Muslims. Shops and stores, restaurants and homes were burned, people were killed, pursuit crucially. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But still the world did not care.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People have different opinions, people have different faiths. But it that a reason to judge over people- over children, women and men; young boys and girl; old grandma’s and grandpa’s?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is that a reason to crucify people, to torture and to kill them? Do you feel that is right? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where did the humanity go to?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do we need to go abroad to start caring about our world? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started to care in India. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where will you start to care???</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">-Karin Schätzle-</span></i></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-6995744604965435152010-10-24T21:32:00.001-07:002010-10-25T02:39:12.053-07:00...8 days left<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">New Media, ICT and its role in the environment</span></u></b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Verdana;">In today’s world, it is baseless to ask if you have a facebook/twitter account or not, or if you blog. Whether it is just to maintain liaisons in the external world, to have a wider scope of network, to create an one’s identity, or to express opinions, interests, feelings, emotions, sentiments, or share knowledge anyone and everyone is the part of the new social media fad. It has its own negative implications making communication transparent, but it helps tremendously making communication easy and rapid. The earth seems to be shrinking with globalization and the new trend of social media. But what can be its implications on the environment and sustainable development? It is not only crucial to our understandings about the environment and makes us environmentally conscious, but also gives the power to individuals/masses to select which environmental issues to present and decide who gets to speak about those issues. The new media has the challenge of presenting the science, politics, and everyday ramifications of environmental change. </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Verdana;">It is a known fact that common man is the most effective agent of change, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">and what better way to facilitate this change if not the media, media power presupposes the privileged access to information and resources and is categorized as persuasive but with the new media the individuals get the opportunity to voice their opinions, to get their message across and for others to counter/concede with their opinions, leading to deliberations, analysis and derivation of results, so it turns out to be more educative than persuasive. The pre-requisite of sustainable and ethical development is that there is effective usage of communication mediums in order to reach to planning and execution of activities that can lead to the growth and development comprising optimum utilization of natural resources without having any ill-effects on the environment. Once the civil society is familiar with the complex environmental and development related issues, it will gain the confidence to act appropriately leading towards sustainability. Communication technology tools help in environmental education by integration of the multidisciplinary process that focuses on critical analysis of environmental issues by gathering, organizing, and interpreting information to draw conclusions, make inferences and incorporate it in our work and activities.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">So what is your take, how effectively do you think the new media and communication technology can be used for creating an ethical and sustainable world? It’s time to opine and stand for what you feel can make the difference. </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">P.s: You can also become a part of this discussion in the workshop on Information and communication technology and its role in environment, from 1<sup>st</sup>-3<sup>rd</sup> November, at CEE, Ahmedabad.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana;">-Shraddha Ganwani-</span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-54147726115581351122010-10-23T05:18:00.001-07:002010-10-25T03:00:33.668-07:00...9 days left<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EC+10: Interview No. 2</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, we spoke to Snigdha Kar from the Youth Environment Network (YEN) department of CEE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Sustainable development</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">- Most of you must have come across this phrase in Middle school, but none of us actually ponder over it or contribute in the process of attaining it. We hear about deliberations taking place in summits and meets, we know how important is the climate protocol, and what can be the consequences like, still we are not that affected because ultimately our life moves on. </span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come. In order to help achieving the goal of sustainable development, we have to learn our way out of current social and environmental problems and learn to live sustainably; therefore the concept of ESD came into existence. <b>Education for sustainable development</b> aims to help people to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge to make informed decisions for the benefit of themselves and others, now and in the future, and to act upon these decisions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">But how effective ESD will be, is completely dependent on our approach, perceptions, willingness to contribute towards the environment and conscionable community, and resolution to be the change that we want to see. We being the new age youth are smart, savvy and are ready to push our boundaries to attain our personal goals isn’t it our duty to offer a helping hand towards improvement of standard of living, and survival of the mankind. Today we the youth in the new era, can make the utilization of all renewable and non-renewable resources, we live in the world where with the help of development of technology communication has become rapid and human effort required to accomplish a task has reduced tremendously, but what is the use of this technology and training that we have imbibed if we can’t save the earth and its resources. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Is it going to help, if we remain blinded towards the hurdles faced by the environmentalists just because it doesn’t affect our day-to-day routine? Is it going to help if we act as spectators when the trees are being cut, or if we cover our face with masks when come across pollution? Is it going to help to have deliberations on what should be the percentage of carbon emission by industries rather than executing it? Isn’t global warming a result of our skewed approach towards environment? We need a solution…and we can be the solution. It’s time that we identify that there is an alarming need for the youth to participate in such drives for protecting the environment and conserving natural resources? </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Is the youth ready to procure education on sustainable development and incorporate it in the activities undertaken for achieving the goal?</span></span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-23935296767165952772010-10-22T04:53:00.000-07:002010-10-25T02:55:06.648-07:00...10 days left<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><b>EC+10: Interview No. 1 </b></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To give you an impression, who the people preparing the conference are, we interviewed some young folks working for CEE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today, we spoke with Raji Vamadevan, who is part of the FUTURES GROUP. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They are the conference secretaries and therefore deal with everything around</span>.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Furthermore, they build up the virtual conference, that even you guys, sitting at home, won't miss any event. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><i><span lang="EN-US">I am at age of late twenties, completed the academic goals and struggling to have a professional career of my choice. Why should I be bother about environment? There are so many things of my immediate concern.<span> </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">This is <b>not</b> the case with youth today. We have seen very active youth participation in various national and international forums like UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP), Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) and Earth Charter etc. where the youth have not just registered their presence but were also intervene in the discussion and contributed to the final results.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">But why youth today is so much concern about protecting environment? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">Remembering a day at Copenhagen during COP 15, all the members (including myself) of YOUNGO which is a youth body under UNFCCC have worn a T-shirt saying <b><i>“How old you will be in year 2050”. </i></b>They were asking the policy maker their age in the year 2050 for which they are taking a decision. Most of the policy decision makers today might not live by that period, it is therefore very important that youth today stand up and make their voice heard. Afterall as the young people, we are the future inhabitants of the earth and we face very real survival challenges. <span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">My neighbors in Bangladesh soon enough will be submerged underwater, with millions left without homes. It will be a fight for survival. </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">In India, the Sunderbans, coast of West Bengal, the people have been drinking saline water for over a year, their crops have been continually ruined, the fish have died due to contamination from saline water, and boils and sores all over their body. </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">That's not living, that's survival.</span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">In Rajasthan, people don't have access to water.<span> </span>The rich people have their water supplied from other regions, whilst the poorer deal with water contamination.</span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">That's not living, that's survival.</span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">The victims of Orissa cyclone in year 1999, at real magnitude are rarely seen. The people describe stories of walking in neck deep water, of rotting animal carcasses and human corpses flowing down the street and filling the air with a bloody stench. Over 10,000 people died and thousands left homeless. And again Cyclone Aila have hit in the year 2009. Agriculture is out of question in the cyclone hit area due to salinity, most of the people have migrated out and those who are living are depended on others. </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">That’s not living that's survival.</span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">The frequency of such climate disaster would increase in coming years. Am I ready to face this? Is the government ready to manage all the climate refugees? Can we even predict the intensity of next climate disaster? </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">We as the YOUTH, have a crucial role to play, we must be aware of issues of immediate environment concern and must take necessary steps to do our bit. I think we need to ask ourselves what this loss of life truly means and why this is happening.<br />
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The above stated examples also indicate that people who are actually not responsible for the global warming induced climate change pays the price especially those of us living in poorer parts of the world. People who die in Orissa cyclone, who will be affected form sea level rise in Bangladesh, people who are form so called poor countries are not polluting the earth. </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span lang="EN-US">The Earth is already weakened and can do little to resist. The common goal of "survival" must be realized now. </span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">It gives me pleasure to introduce an initiative which has principles to protect the mother earth, shares responsibilities with equity, care of human rights and believe in sustainable development. The</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Earth Charter</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">is an international declaration of fundamental values and principles considered useful by its supporters for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. Created by a global consultation process, and endorsed by organizations representing millions of people, the Charter "seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family, the greater community of life, and future generations."</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The Earth Charter has four principles which guides the decision making process. They are;</span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Respect and Care for the Community of Life</span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Ecological Integrity</span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Social and Economic Justice</span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Democracy, Nonviolence and Peace</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">The Earth Charter is been endorsed by many youth organizations. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333300;">The Earth Charter Initiative invites all young people to incorporate the Earth Charter as part of your activities, studies, discussion groups, workshops or work.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> A part of the Earth Charter Initiative there is a bold, diverse and dynamic action-oriented youth network that promotes the principles of the Earth Charter among young people.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333300;">So, the youth sitting in front of the computer, stand up and be the change agents. Afterall you must be the change you want to see in the world.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #414b56;"></span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-2633026628844389202010-10-20T23:53:00.000-07:002010-10-20T23:56:58.670-07:00...12 days left<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">EC+10, Cultural Programme on the 2nd November: Mallika Sarabhai</span></b></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Are you ready to become impressed? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">You better are, otherwise you have to stop reading right NOW. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Today, we will introduce you to an extraordinary woman – a woman, who also lived an extraordinary life. What other people wouldn’t be able to do in a whole lifetime, she achieved in 57 years: Born on 9<sup>th</sup> May 1953 to the classical dans<span style="color: black;">euse Mrinalini Sarabhai</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinalini_Sarabhai" title="Mrinalini Sarabhai"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a> and renowned space scientist Vikram Sarabhai</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Sarabhai" style="color: black;" title="Vikram Sarabhai"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a><span style="color: black;">, she peak</span>ed out of the crowd at an early age.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19003mt-yTC19BrSK_pTTiy6mTMT-LrVSbKxHWrWHIGAR0E6cdxudAAen3GJC8NMY09nXQ9yE248a8TJzvPtJbH90QPG4IeNzKbTOPynMbNVCh5qfCcTb788GhsZATZRxDlJXc2AzKiY/s1600/mallika-sarabhai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19003mt-yTC19BrSK_pTTiy6mTMT-LrVSbKxHWrWHIGAR0E6cdxudAAen3GJC8NMY09nXQ9yE248a8TJzvPtJbH90QPG4IeNzKbTOPynMbNVCh5qfCcTb788GhsZATZRxDlJXc2AzKiY/s200/mallika-sarabhai.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Mallika Sarabhai</b> – Is there anyhing she cannot do? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><u>She</u> definitely can’t be reduced to her dancing, for which she is famous all across India and even over the border, won lots and lots of prizes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><u>She</u> actually started her career as a film actress, but soon it was obvious, that her talent in traditional Indian dance, in the classical forms of Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi, was exceptional. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Today, <u>she</u> is one of India’s leading choreographers and dancers. But that is not everything she does, no! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><u>She</u> also is the writer for several newspaper columns dealing with critical issues like human rights, caste, corruption and many more. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><u>She</u> is the founder of her own dance company Darpana (visit <a href="http://www.darpana.com/">http://www.darpana.com/</a>). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><u>She</u> is an activist for education issues and women’s empowerment and founded different organisations. For over ten years, <u>she</u> develops her own “contemporary dance vocabulary” and presents her works all across the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">As if all of this is not enough, <u>she</u> </span><span lang="EN-GB">even has a PhD in organisational behaviour.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">You want to see more of this amazing woman? Lucky you, she will perform on the 2<sup>nd</sup> day of the EC+10-conference!</span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-85452812020352483072010-10-20T00:13:00.000-07:002010-10-26T01:05:16.482-07:00...13 days left<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwJ71pzA4Y4fVeDzRY1BeNZQqHGIB3tkDNzwKJoow4bqxm6DiH9mUEsWnJIuVJuzyawRmFol1f7LghgULaPeA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> This is our second video; a quick introduction of the CEE (Centre for Environment Education) headquarter in Ahmedabad, the host organisation of the Earth Charter+10 Conference</div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-47933206585243420722010-10-19T00:19:00.000-07:002010-10-20T03:07:54.613-07:00...14 days left<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><u><b>EC+10: Non-Formal Education Workshop</b></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">2010. Imagine. <b>Education</b> for the poor. <b>Education</b> for the rich. <b>Education</b> for everybody in between. <br />
One big classroom. Kids sit together on the floor, reading, writing. We start with the first row: one girl named Alena. Her parents are the owners of a big company, they have a lot of money.<br />
Next to her sits David. His parents are working for a factory in the city. They have enough money to eat every day and to pay the rent, but not much more than that. The last girl in the row's name is Sonia. She lives on the streets of the city, after school she sells little braceletts to earn some extra money.<br />
The three of them are best friends. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This school provides education for everybody. No matter if they are rich or poor, or something in between. In this world, every child, mother, father, grandma and grandpa has the right for free education with no relation to their background. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQns4HoVpfFPrd5FoJT70Lt07YRRZtN594_Zg46Ma8cHVlaQPID_Fbv6Yryeu6OMY-wpEbMsl3fGe_x1d6r1FHWNFl3fPG4k_P-dbs3YcEid_nwtdB0bbIX9xS_KsxG_4UzWu399LJg0/s1600/0_photographers_coltart_trinity_academy_pupils.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwQns4HoVpfFPrd5FoJT70Lt07YRRZtN594_Zg46Ma8cHVlaQPID_Fbv6Yryeu6OMY-wpEbMsl3fGe_x1d6r1FHWNFl3fPG4k_P-dbs3YcEid_nwtdB0bbIX9xS_KsxG_4UzWu399LJg0/s400/0_photographers_coltart_trinity_academy_pupils.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Is our world like this? Has every child in every country the possibility to go to school? And every young person the opportunity to go to university? Every adult to continue his studies and to learn new things? <br />
Is education free nowadays? Why have students to pay for their studies? Why are there private schools? Why is there a segregation between rich and poor? <br />
These facts are not deniable. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Why is a world with free education for everybody not existing? <br />
Due to that fact, on the EC+10 conference one workshop will be hold which deals with the <b>Non-Formal Education</b> in detail. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">What can we change?</span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-38954467314357453082010-10-14T23:33:00.000-07:002010-10-20T03:05:03.083-07:00...16 days left<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b><span style="font-size: small;">Happenings at SAYEN:</span></b></u> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Calling Earth: An IYCN and SAYEN initiative</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Remember? Two days ago we had a nice announcement for the people in South India, but we don’t only think about the South. Today it’s the North-Indian's turn. Well, ok, North-West. I’m sorry for you guys in the East! You just have to start something by yourself and we will announce it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway. Your next Sunday, 24th of October, will look like this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You take the bus or the train, step out of it in Ahmedabad and come to the CEE Campus - the Centre for Environment Education. After your arrival you enjoy the day focusing on everything which is in connection with our <b>planet earth.</b></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsilye1XFlghOL0fX8Hi85YEmrVPMyxCrc745vE8DiQYHRI6sx4M9w7BKH-ME-5UUDXZs_xKmzLxyGHLhSCt4pT0AuAL6_qhdBFMjppphGh3geJH2mSta2xLLeYzrfDd3YsL2G3NNi_e8/s1600/41592_151607444875136_7196_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsilye1XFlghOL0fX8Hi85YEmrVPMyxCrc745vE8DiQYHRI6sx4M9w7BKH-ME-5UUDXZs_xKmzLxyGHLhSCt4pT0AuAL6_qhdBFMjppphGh3geJH2mSta2xLLeYzrfDd3YsL2G3NNi_e8/s1600/41592_151607444875136_7196_n.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Major Events are the different workshops, out of which you will have to choose one:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">-Climate Leadership Training Programme</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">-"Walk From Plastics" Marathon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">-Climate Conclave: Summit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">-Clean Creation: Best out of waste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">-Green Screen: Movies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">-Climate ke liye bajao/ Reverberations: A Rock band competition </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Parallel to these workshops, there are a lot of minor events happening, for example a debate competition, recycling activities, poster making competition, designing a cloth bag or visiting the Prakriti-Bus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The main objective of this day is to create and spread your awareness in environment - and to encourage you to work and engage in environmental issues. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Come over and enjoy the day with us! You will have a lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For further information just join the Facebook page: <b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Calling Earth: An IYCN and SAYEN initiative</b></span>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-59343349578403096322010-10-14T22:41:00.000-07:002010-10-20T23:59:59.838-07:00...17 days left<div style="text-align: left;"><u><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">EC+10: Urbanization Workshop</span></span></b></u><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zFFBB1Y3hn_lPqvsl31wvO2XwUiVU8o9mdjvpfiCH0dQcgLPLXDb8FuWxKr4GYZeOsBxcOB7sTZQPOm2gQhUWA8UGdjDrzQUSOiEaYDYiz9wXE0iBtIjSjp4ebRG_dqvUO5GIDnChXE/s1600/900px-Brazil_-_SP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="55" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zFFBB1Y3hn_lPqvsl31wvO2XwUiVU8o9mdjvpfiCH0dQcgLPLXDb8FuWxKr4GYZeOsBxcOB7sTZQPOm2gQhUWA8UGdjDrzQUSOiEaYDYiz9wXE0iBtIjSjp4ebRG_dqvUO5GIDnChXE/s400/900px-Brazil_-_SP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">In 1900, <b>13%</b> of the world’s population lived in cities. The majority was spread all over the countries, living mostly in villages and earning their every day-bread through agriculture. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">But industrialisation and subsequent events changed that dramatically:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">In 2030 – only 20 years from now - estimated <b>60%</b> of the world’s population will live in cities. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shocking numbers and you’ll find them everywhere (since the media is human-made and humans are sensation-seeking). Combined with articles about a continuously increasing number of homeless people in cities, labour market problems, city growth in an absolutely unbelievable speed, especially in so-called developing countries - the drawn picture of our urban life looks pretty depressing. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Urbanization</b>….an often used term, which is mainly used to point out all the uncountable points where our living system lacks.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Most of the people actually DO recognize it and say to themselves: “Oh, there are so many problems, how terrible!”. But afterwards they simply continue in an business-as-usual-mentality. We don’t want to be like that; we want to find out whether there also is another side to it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Is it possible to <b>change our communities</b>? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Does something like a <b>sustainable</b> community even exist?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">How can we influence the process of urbanisation in a way, that the good sides overbalance?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">The “<b>Cities, Communities & Urbanisation</b>“-Workshop deals exactly with this kind of questions – and will, hopefully, give you some positive examples of a more sustainable way of living communities.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UJxEWLOlwsNBb9eo3qizhXqVZ_R7MlHaOlKsG9YAHahUSlhH0ArwE-qfiz18IbVdEzbDK799Zzu-GWxpkHJeZ81KOh4IdhQAUcZ2UCwnxxicYzrAptXpxN96aCpyP3Kgh86fKJUIg5U/s1600/p36b_custer_panorama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UJxEWLOlwsNBb9eo3qizhXqVZ_R7MlHaOlKsG9YAHahUSlhH0ArwE-qfiz18IbVdEzbDK799Zzu-GWxpkHJeZ81KOh4IdhQAUcZ2UCwnxxicYzrAptXpxN96aCpyP3Kgh86fKJUIg5U/s400/p36b_custer_panorama.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-76985392607685035262010-10-14T03:11:00.000-07:002010-10-20T03:24:52.420-07:00...18 days left<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Happenings at SAYEN:</b></u></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">„We pledge you promise“-Campaign</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where are you guys out there? Are you in India? In south India? Coincidentally in Hyderabad or Bangalore??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes? Then you shouldn’t make plans for the next days. No matter what it is, it is not as good as the event we suggest to you!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Campaign “We pledge you promise” initiated by SAYEN, CEE and Oxfam India (more information about the organization: follow the links on the right side) started last Sunday, 10th of October and is hold until next Monday, 18th of October to mitigate the impacts of climate change - Signatures and support are needed. <b>From everybody!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The claim:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u>We pledge:</u> Save Energy- Save Water- Use Green Transport- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle- Sow the Seed for a Greener Lifestyle- Plant Tree and Gift Sablings</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u>You promise:</u> invest in agriculture and save lives- sow the seed for a fair, ambitious and blinding deal at COP16, Cancun, Mexico- Help vulnerable communities, especially women farmers to adapt to the changing climate- establish a global climate fund in Cancun which delivers for poor people, particularly women- ensure enough money is made available in Cancun to support vulnerable communities adapt to Climate Change- all states of India to prepare a “State action plan of Climate Change” and ensure food security of poor people</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Be part of the change and help to ensure that our pledges are done and the promises kept. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For more information check out the <b>SAYEN</b> and <b>Oxfam India Homepages</b> on the right side.</span>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-45316699683943783392010-10-13T05:59:00.000-07:002010-10-20T02:50:26.066-07:00...19 days left<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u><b>Pre-Conference, Cultural Programme, 31st of October: The Kabir Project </b></u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We have some NEW exciting news for you all out there: A new cultural act! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2AO8e5laN0-Z5u3QI7Q6XpPH-MpVQGiMV2w4vY8GITl_P03OxIryelIXYMgts-9P09ASS1pAohJPAy1Mo9YGycrD_-JaupAYd2FwEm9X53Ano1oTcGImrI53cXrAkjUK7iCnyO27l7Fo/s1600/Live_Hari%2520Adivarekar9_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2AO8e5laN0-Z5u3QI7Q6XpPH-MpVQGiMV2w4vY8GITl_P03OxIryelIXYMgts-9P09ASS1pAohJPAy1Mo9YGycrD_-JaupAYd2FwEm9X53Ano1oTcGImrI53cXrAkjUK7iCnyO27l7Fo/s200/Live_Hari%2520Adivarekar9_0.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div style="border: medium none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The “<b>Kabir Project</b>” is an initiative which started in 2003 and focuses on the mystic poet Kabir who live in North India in the 15<sup>th</sup> century. <br />
His text are adjusted to today’s topics by using music, film, images and conversations. During the time, the project published various LPs, documentaries and got a great circle of supporters all over the country. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div style="border: medium none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Curious? </span></div><div style="border: medium none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
Then you are lucky. You can get a closer look on this amazing project at the EC+10 pre-conference happening. On the 31th of October!</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="border: medium none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First of all, one of the documentaries: “ Koi Sunta Hai (Someone is listening): Journeys with Kumar and Kabir” made by Shabnam Virmani will be shown . The movie gives an insight in Kabir’s poetry , underlined by amazing pictures and music. <br />
Afterwards you have the possibility to share your opinion and questions with the film maker.</span></div><div style="border: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBcdXdOuMicddXC2gvA1Mn2LULTzuXdyaWhr7fmjl6kMNLhkTvQGpPmD-ZbofGvj6RYlEqfByJQ20Yy_znXD6pJEefF9rDFXVw8g090xqgEQ61VDXTyTjwzSd0nvAFyAsVR2oQrpWHkQU/s1600/Live_Hari-Adivarekar84.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBcdXdOuMicddXC2gvA1Mn2LULTzuXdyaWhr7fmjl6kMNLhkTvQGpPmD-ZbofGvj6RYlEqfByJQ20Yy_znXD6pJEefF9rDFXVw8g090xqgEQ61VDXTyTjwzSd0nvAFyAsVR2oQrpWHkQU/s200/Live_Hari-Adivarekar84.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The evening will completely round with the Sufi music of the folk singer Mooralala Marwada of the Meghval Community in Kutch, western Gujarat. He is musically supported by the movie maker Shabnam Virmani. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div style="border: medium none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To get a little impression about their music check out the videos on the left side. For further information about the project we post their homepage link. <br />
Enjoy listening and hope you are looking forward to it… We become more and more excited every day! And what about you??? :) </span></div></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655433018349959019.post-39247015656616884032010-10-12T04:44:00.000-07:002010-10-20T03:25:40.548-07:00...20 days left<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b><u>EC+10: Biodiversity Workshop </u></b></span></div><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">After the week started so nicely with piano music from Costa Rica, we are thinking about something dark, gloomy and even a bit scary for today…..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Let us take you on a little journey, a journey in the <b>FUTURE</b>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-F9m-miybDPa3TSIouQ37j5IP30h3XZXwDmkJ08OLrit4AeTm1DziZ6MAZk61EXVK17UjwXrZINXjrzb2UW2xqyjF7G34p_MeoWxAfIjsuGTEHLzc8aO_t3pZUCQHEJ9m99lhudNQXS0/s1600/UNEP083-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-F9m-miybDPa3TSIouQ37j5IP30h3XZXwDmkJ08OLrit4AeTm1DziZ6MAZk61EXVK17UjwXrZINXjrzb2UW2xqyjF7G34p_MeoWxAfIjsuGTEHLzc8aO_t3pZUCQHEJ9m99lhudNQXS0/s200/UNEP083-2.jpg" width="195" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">It is the <b>year 2150</b>. The human population all over the world exploded over the past century, consequently the run for resources also did. In their urging need for energy, higher profits and never ending growth, people exploited all the fossil fuels that existed on our planet, polluted the rivers with industrial waste and cutted down all forests. Until not a single tree was left. Today, little children grow up without even knowing how a tree looks like, how it changes through the seasons. Its rich greenness in summer, the colourfulness in autumn, leaving all the leaves in winter, and the recurring wonder of the first new leave in spring. They don't know how it feels to go for a walk through the woods early in the morning, listening to the sounds of the forest, whisteling birds and whispering branches moving slightly in the breeze. Only a few, old people remember the beauty of nature, but nobody believes them when they get carried away in reminiscence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Because their living space continuously diminished, one animal species after the other disappeared, until human beings were the only species left on earth. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgae-nS7hYZGxrsT8dDGU8Z5jsK4yRu7YAv09z-aeBQvkDYwZI4dLfjw53vyRIGhNPBJDyYlUOELGP-S-gbPmJwjQWT9K2z1GdrG6qHILTkuf4DMCwS5T6BD0vSni24lVR1Udrubt9v5Ms/s1600/kahlschlag-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgae-nS7hYZGxrsT8dDGU8Z5jsK4yRu7YAv09z-aeBQvkDYwZI4dLfjw53vyRIGhNPBJDyYlUOELGP-S-gbPmJwjQWT9K2z1GdrG6qHILTkuf4DMCwS5T6BD0vSni24lVR1Udrubt9v5Ms/s1600/kahlschlag-sm.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Finally, the whole world is in the hands of humanity. No one disturbs the people in their daily business. No annoying flies, getting in the way of their after-lunch-nap in the afternoon. No mosquitos and rats, which convey diseases. No poisonous snakes, no lizards, no bears and tigers you have to be scared of. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Hang on a second…. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">…what do the people eat? Meat ran out years ago, vegetable plants and fruit trees died decades back. What else do we have? Chocolate? Made out of cocoa - a plant. Milk? Given by cows - an animal. Bread? Made of wheat - a plant. Hmm what is left? All the essential eatables ran out and became extinct. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">That is the moment, at which our dystopia starts to crack down. But do you get the point? Just question yourself for a second: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Would you like to live in a world like that? Would you prefer to live alone on the planet?<br />
We should start thinking about our actions, about environment, animals and the proceeding loss of flora and fauna.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of the workshops at the Earth Charter+10 Conference will be about “Biodiversity”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The term Biodiversity combines the huge variety in both, flora and fauna. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To preserve this variety, we need stricter laws and enforcement, especially on an international level. Furthermore, education about biodiversity is a good basis to create awareness amongst the society.</span></div>Welcome on our bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07325669690481931297noreply@blogger.com0