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For all those who are interested in environment and wildlife documentaries and filmmaking - please spread the word -
CMS VATAVARAN announces its Call for Entries for the 8th competitive edition of CMS VATAVARAN - Environment & Wildlife Film Festival and Forum 2015 from Indian and International filmmakers.
Films produced on or after January 01, 2013 are accepted in the CMS VATAVARAN 2015 film festival scheduled from October 9 - 12, 2015 at New Delhi. Entries can be submitted in 11 categories.
CMS VATAVARAN is respected widely for the high standards it has set in the judging of films - the impartiality of the process and involvement of eminent personalities from across a wide spectrum.
http://vat2015.cmsvatavaran.org/call-for-entry-2015/
It is good. Here in my college , I also want to start swachh Bharat at the inogration of Greenz association of B.E environmental engineering in Coimbatore. For that I am planning to take collaboration of other school,college,NGOs, industry and…"
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pls share the details of the above subject and want all the details of procedre and manual and applying procedure and fee particulars
Dear friends,
can any body give the details of what are the laboratory equipments required for establish a EIA report analysis lab & procedure for the same. and cost of the equiprments
please help me out thankful
Regards,
fasi
Due to administrative and technical reason, the seminar slated for March 13-14, 2015
has been postponed to November 27-28,2015. In fact majority of the participants has expressed their inability to attend and participate on the said dates due to financial year closing.May we take the liberty to request you please favour us with your valuable contribution by way of research paper/article/registration form duly completed at your earliest possible to plan the seminar and serve you in a better manner.
Inconvenience caused is hereby regretted.
After a long time there is a very interesting study on NET - Negative Emissions Technology from University of Oxford, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment. Check out the new technologies being pursued to counter the effects of man-made emissions . But as the study points out, NET should not be seen as a deus ex machina that will ‘save the day.
I love the part where the study states the obvious, known to mankind since millennium. Simple steps like afforestation and rejuvenating our existing forests are the only low cost methods known to mankind that can stand a fighting chance against stifling emissions. We need a balance to counter the effects of Climate change. Reduce our emissions and promote Negative Emission Technologies at the same time.
Check the study out at http://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/research-programmes/stranded-assets/Stranded%20Carbon%20Assets%20and%20NETs%20-%2006.02.15.pdf
Love to hear your opinion!
AlphaMERS Pvt Ltd (www.alphamers.com) has filed six design patent applications this year. These applications are for devices in the field of marine oil spill containment and recovery, besides other related areas.
The spill response devices cater to special demands of skimming viscous oil spills off the water or dealing with oil spills in strong currents.
The high current skimming devices has a version designed for storm water drains of oil refineries. This device helps prevent an oil spill from within the refinery being carried out to sea through these storm water drains.
Centre for Environment and Development (CED) is organizing the 11th Kerala Environment Congress (KEC 2015) and three days National Workshop on "Climate Change and Sustainable Development" from 6th to 8th May, 2015 at Kottayam, Kerala.
The Congress will include invited paper presentations by experts on various sub themes, paper and poster presentations by Scientist all over India and paper and poster presentations by research students for Young Scientist Award.
I did M.Sc.(Env & Eco), and PGD in Environmental Management and sustainable devolpment. I am looking for some on line Certificate courses in Environment
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Please tell me course about occupational health and safety.
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I met my Professor friend at the EXIT of an international exhibition on air quality monitoring instruments in Mumbai. This exhibition had stalls of some of the leading suppliers of automated air quality monitoring instrument suppliers from all over the world. It was a great display of sophisticated instruments across some 50 stalls with seminars concurrently held. There must be at least 1000 footfalls a day. Most visitors were industries who were forced to install automatic air quality monitoring stations by the Government.
I asked the Professor how was the experience.
He seemed quite happy but not very excited. “It’s a good expo but I have some other views”. He said with a pause. “We need to chat one of these days”. I knew that given my friends hectic work schedule, this chat was never going to happen. Chatting with the Professor had always been interesting and stimulating. So I suggested that we sit at one of the restaurants outside the EXIT gate for some coffee. “They have a varandah behind and they let you smoke there” I told him as additional information – as if it mattered.
We picked up a table with a round top and cane chairs and ordered for Ethiopian coffee that was served in large cups with some bitter cookies. When the waiter brought an ashtray for the Professor, the “stage was all set” for our conversations. He took a deep puff from his cigar and said “Monitoring with sophisticated instruments is fine. We do need to have good quality, high frequency air quality data on key parameters but what I don’t like is the absence of the involvement of people. We need to involve people in environmental monitoring if we want to see action. Most of the times, monitoring remains a “bilateral” activity between the “polluter” and the ‘regulator”. People or the key stakeholders come to know the outcomes of this bilateral transaction only when there are serious violations leading to punitive actions or have legal consequences.
“People watch on TV or read occasionally in the newspapers graphs and statistics on ambient air quality, especially how it is much higher than the standard. Firstly they don’t understand the terms (parameters and units) and secondly they don’t know what should be done, or what the Government is doing about it. It is often a passive receipt of information”
I said you need something sensational to happen if you want to make people understand how bad our ambient air quality is. You may know that United States may curb President Barack Obama's early morning schedule during his visit to Delhi this month. Air pollution monitoring agencies have found that the levels of 'PM2.5' (term used to describe fine, respirable particles) that get lodged in the lungs are likely to be in the range of moderate to high in the period while Obama will be in Delhi. So Obama may find difficult to be chief guest at the Republic Day parade which is held in the open and in the morning when air pollution levels are usually high. He will probably have to wear an oxygen mask on the stage and look like Darth Vader of the Star Wars. This should wake up citizens of Delhi and force the Government to take some concrete actions to reduce the levels of 'PM2.5 or not invite people like Obama again who have poor pollution resilience
The Professor smiled. “You cannot ask the US President however to visit all polluted cities in India just to raise awareness of the Indian citizens – and his travel will cost more than Ministry of Environment’s budget. We have to find ways ourselves”. He rested his cigar on the ash tray.
Many years ago, in Mumbai, at Shivaji-Park I did an experiment on how to involve citizens in air quality monitoring. Here some 200 odd citizens participated. We don’t need to make use of sophisticated instruments many times. Even basics like dust jar work. So I used dust jars that were sponsored for me by one of the major polluting industry of Mumbai.(They wanted to feel “good”). A call was given through newspaper (that was kind enough to publicize at no cost) asking interested citizens to assemble at the Shivaji-Park Gymkhana if they were interested to know about the air quality in Mumbai.
On a Sunday morning, some 200 citizens from different corners of Mumbai walked in. They represented all ages, gender and professions. I gave a 10 minute presentation on the basics of air pollution in cities and then spoke about the dust jar. Idea was to give every attendee a dust jar that they would place in the balcony or terrace with as much free air flow possible. The jar was to be kept for one week and all were expected to meet again at the Gymkhana, get the dust jar weighed and compare the results. Some of the students then showed the participants how the dust jar works. Names and addresses of the citizens were recorded (and later mapped).
I think the idea of comparing dust fall levels really motivated the citizens to come back on next Sunday. My students did some random visits to some 20 houses across the city to check if the dust jar was placed alright – and this also helped in some sort of a reminder. On the next Sunday we got more than 200 citizens as they brought along their neighbours and friends. All were curious. We weighed each dust jar and couple of my students did a quick mapping of the dust levels on the map of Mumbai to project on a screen.
I had organized for the display of lungs of industrial workers that were preserved in jars with formalin. This was courtesy KEM hospitals Air Pollution & Heath Unit. These jars showed how much of particle lodging had happened in the lungs of the industrial workers due to exposure to dust in the work space. While my students were doing dust fall mapping, the citizens crowded around the tables to see the “display of consequences”. This was certainly scary. I could hear first the whispers and later voices that were raised. When Mumbai’s dust fall level map was projected, it led to an intense debate. Why are the dust fall levels high here and why here so low? What dust fall levels are permissible? And what can we do about it? One participant said that particle size should also matter and not just the weight. Another one said that local release of dust e.g. due to construction activities will make the difference. All were excited for more knowledge and come up with suggestions for city-wide as well as local actions. They wanted me to repeat this exercise at the terraces of schools and involve school children and teachers.
“Let the students get involved as an assignment where they would record dust jar levels in various seasons – see the variability and whether the trends were decreasing or rising. At the end of the year, all school principals should get together, compile data and publish a report for the citizens and the Government”
Wow – I exclaimed. “That’s real participatory air pollution monitoring. Much better than just making use of automated instruments. Your experiment is unique as it builds citizen awareness, imparts education. Importantly it promotes ownership, opens collaborations and leads to collective actions. So did you repeat the “experiment” I asked. The Professor extinguished his cigar and I asked for the bill. _______________________________________________________________
I did this experiment in 1985 in Mumbai. Always wanted to repeat, escalate and replicate but couldn’t do so for various reasons. Would love to action again. May be through Ekonnect. If anyone is interested to emulate this experiment, do let me know. I will most happy to guide/help.
The dust jars were used heavily in China in 1990s for ambient air quality monitoring. There have been interesting Chinese publications on the dust fall technique and results. Of course the method has its own limitations. There are however several extensions possible. Even more recently, dust jars are used. See “Evaluation of Dust fall in the Air of Yazd” by K. Naddafi, R. Nabizadeh, Z. Soltanianzadeh, M. H. Ehrampoosh in Iran (http://diglib.tums.ac.ir/pub/magmng/pdf/3344.pdf).
Putting science to society is the key. A lot happens when well done.
Friends,
I will appreciate if anyone can share the cost of preparing Single cell and Double cell Land fill site.
Regards
Suneet Dabke
The fast growing economy, rapid industrialisation and growing urban population in India along with increasing wastewater generation are reasons for concern and reiterate the need for appropriate water management practices. Centre for Science and Environment recognises this need and has developed a five-day hands on training programme aimed at giving practical exposure to participants on wastewater treatment for industrial and urban wastewater management including reuse and recycle.
The objective of this programme is to build capacity and create awareness among regulators, developers, consultants, NGOs, students and academics to understand wastewater treatment process, technologies and affordable treatment options. The programme further aims at evaluating the performance and design parameters along with the applicable cost implication associated with each treatment system.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Issues and challenges of urban and industrial wastewater treatment, conservation/ efficiency including reuse and recycle.
Wastewater treatment technologies including advanced treatment options
Decentralized approaches in treating urban wastewater (existing and emerging)
Planning, designing, monitoring and inspection of wastewater treatment systems
Proficiency on water and wastewater accounting
Sector specific exposure on wastewater treatment and management such as construction and industrial projects (distillery, tannery, textile, refinery, power plant etc).
Concept of zero discharge with case studies
Issues and challenges with Common Effluent Treatment Plants and way ahead
State of art practices for wastewater management
Law, policy options and standards for wastewater treatment
Hands on experience in wastewater sampling and analysis
TOOLS
Lectures by experts, site visits to existing projects, practical group exercises, presentations by participants, reference materials and film screening.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Regulators, Consultants, Engineers, Environment Managers, NGOs, Academics and Students.
Course Duration:
Date: February 2-6, 2015
Venue: CSE, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi -110062
Time: 10.00 am to 5.30 pm
Course fee: The course fee is Rs. 15,000 for Regulators, Consultants, Engineers, Environment Managers, Rs 10,000 for academicians, NGOs and researcher, Rs 7,500 for students The fee includes training material, field visit, lunch, tea/coffee and refreshments during training and field visit. Participants will get a certificate at the end of the course.
Last Date for Applying: January 20, 2015
For information contact
Swati Singh Sambyal, Senior Research Associate
Industry & Environment Unit
Centre for Science and Environment
Tel: + 91-11-29955124/ 6110, Extension: 281, |
Fax: + 91-11-29955879 Mob. No.: +91 9910496283
E-mail: swati@cseindia.org
