GLOBAL ACTION DAY 23 , 24 th

Go Green Project

We as Youth YFS United Together on 11th sep to do a Mass event on tree Plantation and make it larger and these not Possible without Children"s . We are ready to take the Challenge of Climate Change , Global Warming .

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RECESSION BLUES?

Go Green! Change the lights in your home to compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) not just to save our planet, but to save your pocket as well! CFLs require 75% less energy to power than normal bulbs, but still provide bright, adequate lighting। This means that you will start saving money on your energy bills right away. Each bulb, if used to its potential, will save up to 1 tonne of Carbon Dioxide from entering the air over its lifetime (and Rs. 1200 from your pocketbook.) Don’t be discouraged by the bright white light that is associated with the word “fluorescent,” सफल
s now come in yellow and soft lights as well. They are available in almost every electric shop across India. If it’s the initial high price that they cost which is making you hesitant don’t worry because they last 8-13 times longer and do not require frequent replacement or maintenance. In fact, because this special bulb is considered an investment, your local electricwala will often sign the bulb as a one-year guarantee and replace it if anything should go awry. If not for your planet than do it for your pocket. Hurry the electricity bill is ticking...


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Climate Project India

Rohit (RIT)
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Urban Glimpses

I'm not a professional photographer, but these are some of my effort's that put to give people an idea about urban habitats and the vulnerability imposed on the urban poor due to various factors including those of climate change.

My habitat is small and crowded -- crumbling buildings, decaying infrastructure -- As many of you might know the increased intensity of floods in Mumbai and the stress it has imposed on water systems and sewerage -- this has resulted in not only hindrance of routine life but has also inflicted increased health vulnerability due to contamination of water and outbreak of water borne diseases.

These pictures were taken on April 22, Earth Day -- and I want to share these moments with you. I truly believe that through awareness and compassion, we as a youth can bring change.

Also see the following Pictures

Rohit (RIT)

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What is the greenhouse effect and global warming?

(Photo: Scanpix/Reuters)

The most recent assessment report from the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) says that the earth’s average temperature has risen by 0.74 degrees in the period from 1906 to 2005and that the average temperature will continue to rise.
Ministry of Climate and Energy of Denmark

The greenhouse effect is a natural mechanism that retains the heat emitted from the earth’s surface. The earth’s average temperature is at the moment around 14 degrees celsius (57 degrees fahrenheit). If the natural greenhouse effect did not exist, the average temperature would be around minus 19 degrees celsius (minus 2 degrees fahrenheit).The greenhouse effect is caused by a range of different gases in the earth’s atmosphere. Water vapour makes the most significant contribution to the greenhouse effect, followed by CO2. The atmospheric content of greenhouse gases – in particular CO2 – and the consequences for the climate are being discussed because the content of these gases in the atmosphere has risen precipitously in a period covering approximately the latest 250 years, and especially the last 50.

At present the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 385 ppm (millionths). Before industrialisation it was about 280 ppm. Analyses of air contained in ice from the Antarctic ice cap show that there is far more CO2 in the air today than at any time in the last 650,000 years.

The consequence is that the greenhouse effect is becoming stronger, and therefore the earth is becoming warmer. How much warmer has, however, been a matter of dispute. The most recent assessment report from the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) is from 2007. It says that the earth’s average temperature has risen by 0.74 degrees in the period from 1906 to 2005. The warming is stronger over land areas than over the sea, and accordingly it is strongest in the north. At the same time occurrences of heatwaves and violent downpours have also increased, the oceans have risen, and the ice at the world’s poles and on its mountains has begun to melt. All of these effects are predictable in the event of global warming.

The IPCC’s most recent assessment report says that the average temperature will continue to rise, but that the extent and the duration of this rise, and the severity of its consequences, depend on how quickly and how effectively emissions of greenhouse gases can be restricted and, over time, reduced.

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Rohit (R)
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Which gases are greenhouse gases, and why?

The most important so-called "long-lived" greenhouse gases are CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and CFC. In total they account for more than 97 per cent of the direct effect of the long-lived gases on how much heat is retained in the atmosphere.

A range of different gases can act as greenhouse gases. The common denominator for them is that they can absorb heat (thermal infrared radiation), which is emitted from the earth, and re-emit it. When the sun shines on the earth, about 70 percent of the energy gets through the atmosphere. The remainder is retained or reflected by, for example, clouds. It is mainly invisible light that gets through.

On the earth’s surface the light is retained and converted into heat, which is sent back into space in the form of thermal infrared radiation – in the same way as a bonfire emits radiant heat. A part of this heat does not escape from the atmosphere, but is retained by greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane. The thermal radiation causes the gas molecules to vibrate with energy, until the energy is released and re-emitted as thermal radiation. In this way the atmosphere retains for a time a part of the energy the earth receives from the sun. This is the greenhouse effect.

The atmosphere consists mainly of nitrogen and oxygen. The molecules of these gases are simple – they consist of only two atoms. They have a lot of difficulty in capturing thermal radiation and in vibrating. Therefore they are not greenhouse gases. Other molecules have a structure that can capture heat.

The most significant greenhouse gas is water vapour. But water vapour stays in the atmosphere only very briefly, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is affected by other greenhouse gases, because hotter air causes increased evaporation from the oceans in particular.

The discussion about the anthropogenic greenhouse effect is therefore concentrated on the so-called ”long-lived” greenhouse gases. The most important ones are CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and CFC gases. In total they account for more than 97 per cent of the direct effect of the long-lived gases on how much heat is retained in the atmosphere. (Photo: Scanpix/Reuters)

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ROHIT (RIT) VISHWAKARMA
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This Earth Day, learn some green tricks and listen to Mother Nature whisper…

April 22, 2009
Maharashtra Nature Park, Bandra
http://www.sproutsenvttrust.org/

Photographs by:
Rohit (RIT)
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Dark hour

It started up when i got my reminder of earth hour -project , so i was all geared up to an active participant in earth hour .

did you know what is earth hour ?
It was stared in Sydney , Australia by a orgnization WWF in 2007 . when over two/2 million. Residents of the city switch of the light's and all over the world - a non-essential light's in their home , offices , and all the hotel's , motel's , city for one hour to show of solidarity with global act against global warming and climate change.

The act soon caught on fast and in 2008 some 50 million household's to hotel's , motel's everything and also 35 countries across the world observed earth hour by putting off their light's for 60 minute at a given time .

Last saturday India joined the earthhour campaign and it's now 65 countries across the world
delhi ,mumbai , banglore hyderabad , kochi and chandhigarh were they slated the light's an for hour from 8.30 to 9.30 .
It was great experience for me .
you can check it out some great photograph's of dark hour .
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/earth_hour_2009.html

rohit vishwakarma

EARTH HOUR PICTURES Before and After, 2009

"Leaving The Past"

[1]

They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic it's a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it But this is for the paraplygics, people dreamin' of runnin' ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin' urbanly murderers like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin' Some cowards on the internet didn't think I would sell scared to talk shit in person, cause they stuck in a shell and couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell Hell is not a place you go, if you not a Christian it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion I don't see the difference in between the raw and the wrong Soldiers emptyin' the clips at little kids and they moms I'm just like a desperate ............. strapped to a bomb Humanity is gone, smoked up in a gravity bong by a democrat republican Cheech and Chong Immortal Technique, you never heard me preachin' a song I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back and shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack And since life is a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages

[2]

I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be as if our peoples history started with slavery Painfully I discovered the shit they kept us secret this is the exodus like the black Jews out of Egypt I keep it reality based wit the music I make brought the truth to your face with the style I run wit like the navy missile that shot down flight eight hundred I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus and from the 15-hundreds until after the model I watch Latin America get raped in the sorrow You see the Spaniards never left despues de Colon and if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision I never seen so much racism in all of my life every program and newscast, all of 'em white It's like Apartheid with ten percent ruling the rest that type of stress'll make me put the fucking tool to your chest Step in my way nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya I burn slow like (a) pissing drunk with gonorrhea I'll do a freak show in North Korea, burning the flag while Jay Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this: capitalism and democracy are not synonymous You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill But that will never be me, cause I'm leavin' the past like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return I spit reality, instead of what you usually learn and I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice cause I'm the only ..........that could change my life

[Ending]

[3]

Some people think I won't make it but I know that I will Escape the emptiness cause that shit is slow and it kills the flow and the skill I made y'all believe that it last You can make the future but it starts with LEAVING THE PAST

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Rohit (Rit) Vishwakarma

Following the e-waste trail-(YFS-RIT.)

Greenpeace has been investigating the immoral and illegal e-waste dumping in developing countries since 2002. After China, India, Pakistan and Ghana, this is the story of how one very broken TV managed to avoid being tested and recycled according to EU regulations and instead ended up in Nigeria as "second hand goods".
By taking out the toxic chemicals from the products and securing global recycling schemes, electronics manufacturers can ensure that countries like Nigeria do not end up with Europe's toxic e-waste. Take action now and find out how you can make sure our electronics devices do not end up polluting the poor...
©Greenpeace/Kristtian Buus

Waiting for the World to Change

Music has always been my inspiration.

This song by John Mayer brings the current state of our society...How we all tend to resist to make our contribution...How we silently perceive that solution of our helplessness will come along eventually...Lets be more proactive and do our bit...Its our world...Its our lives...Its our change...

Thankyou note to British Council and TERI

Many Thanks To British Council and TERI for giving me the opportunity to present my ideas at the International Climate Champions (ICC) West Zone round that was held at Mumbai, India.

Sincerely,

Rohit Vishwakarma

Unknown Heroes of the Environment

We all tend to be indifferent for our environment... we exploit resources and do not think about the consequences resulting from it.

In my locality, I see people with very limited material resources... They use and reuse every bit in every form that can be imagined: WOOD and METAL for shelter; CLOTH for clothes... then again clothes... then smaller clothes...then as scrap for cleaning; PAPER for reading...then for wrapping and protection.

Bless the Raddiwalas of our locality who can stock anything for reuse.

All I can say is that people are thankful for everything they have and want to realize the best of everything they can without being wasteful.

They do not know about Climate Change and the hovering vulnerability it imposes on their shanty rickety houses and their lives. What they do know is that resources are precious and should be respected.

Let the learned and knowledgeable not ruin the lives of the poor through mindless wasteful and resource intensive ways of leading lives.

Can we ignore this...

Mumbai city...
A vast concrete jungle...
Ignored environment...
Ignored spaces...
Ignored faces...

About the photo compilation: The development around my locality (Samtanagar). The insufficient waste-management in the locality imposes health hazards, which are on an increase due to climate extreme events such as floods and heat waves.