Horamavu clean up drive on June 13th 15

Horamavu clean up drive on June 13th 15

Horamavu residents collectively came to preserve the Hoamavu lake with a clean up drive.
Early morning started with trash bag challenge to collect the trash around the lake. Kids enjoyed to paint on the cement garbage pipes with a message. A huge turn around was seen by local residents for the event and foreseeing saving the lake.

Clean up drive at Kalkere kalyani by Colt on March 21, 15

Kalkere kalyani clean up drive

The event was driven by Colt, Manyath Tech park employees.
The Kalkere kalayani is getting too bad shape due to garbage disposal and growing weeds. This was cleaned by team of 25 people.

Nature walk at Lalbagh

We organised a "nature walk" at Lalbagh on Sunday, the 22nd of July, for which guides from ecoedu.com, Mr. Srinivas and Mr. Ulhas accompanied us.

Around 25 interested people from various walks of life gathered to explore about the trees and various other aspects of our century old city garden. Many less-known WOW facts about the trees, insects and the park were discussed. The purpose was to encourage nature enthusiasts to explore outdoors and enrich their knowledge.

The walk lasted for about 3 hours, and it was well appreciated by all those who attended. Requests have been made for more such walks to be conducted.

Few pictures are available at (you may need to login to Google Picasa first and then able to access the link below)

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This was the first walk organized by LIFE and planning to conduct on regular basis.

Environment awareness and tree plantation drive at Fiberlink Pvt Ltd

LIFE conducted an awareness program for the employees at Fiberlink on June 18^th at their office premises in Koramangala.

Harsha and Adithya made presentations about LIFE, environmental issues in Bangalore, and on tree planting methods for around 2 hours.

This initiative was through the efforts of Pragati (employee of Fiberlink) with the question about how a person can contribute to improving the environment through day to day activities.

The session was concluded with the distribution of 70 saplings.

Ten of each - Singapore Cherry, Basavanpaada, Honge, Spathodea, Daalichand, Peltophorum, and Pride of India were given to encourage tree planting near each of the employee's residences.

Later on the next day, around enthusiastic 25 employees from Fiberlink attending a tree planting exercise at Ramagondanahalli school area at 815AM.

This School had the needed space and was ideal for plantation. Harsha spoke with school headmaster Krishna Reddy to get permission, and it was decided beforehand that the planting would be conducted during monsoon season.

A small demo was given on how to dig a pit, following which the pits were dug with other activities like taking out weeds. Kids helped out too and made the event colourful.

By 930 am, 30 pits were ready and thanks to the recent rainfall we were able to dig faster.

Took a small break for refueling ourselves.

The saplings arrived then and with new energy we started planting.

3-4 sticks have been placed around each sapling to guard it, and they have been held together with wire to protect from animals and damage because of children's games

The saplings were watered quickly.

At the same time employees conducted a quick clean drive to collect garbage in the school premises and put them into 3 bins.

Last part was photo session with which the event was concluded.

Thanks to Ragahavan and Roopa Shankaran to be part of the event.

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LIFE Stall at Deccan rock 2009

Deccan rock 2009

Metal bands enthralled fans at Deccan rock musical fest with promoting awareness on global warming. Event was promoted by Livegig and Orka with CRE on Dec 5^th afternoon and international heavy metal bands like Amon Amarth, Textures and Indian bands like Kryptos, Undying Inc, Inner sanctum, Bhyanak Maut and Demonic resurrection performed. The music was thunderous and the fans as well.

NGOs like LIFE, IYCN, Greenpeace and Reva displayed stalls. Life displayed various messages on the global warming effects and indoor plants. As we had younger crowd, we could send the messages of minimal usage of plastics and importance of planting. Also people were more interested learn more on global warming due to upcoming “Copenhagen climate conference” which is a hot and important for all of us.

Below is the detail of media coverage:

http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1618-metal-festival-climate-change-deccan-rock

Thanks to Sowmya for providing stall for us.

Participants: Aditya, Swapna and Harsha.

Stall at RVCE

Date of event: 15th November 2009

The occasion was the cultural fest at RV College of Engineering. This year's theme was environmental awareness and we were invited to organise a stall at the college premises.

What was on display:

There were no items for sale, only for display. Posters were arranged along the sidewalls of the stall (These were borrowed from Community Health Cell). Indoor potted plants made from recycled products were also displayed. Many books and magazines on environmental themes were also arranged. Reusable bags made of cloth were also hung along with the posters.

Objective:

To interact with interested students and network. Also to showcase lifestyle change options and recommended reading material for the youth.

The experience:

It was the first time we set up an awareness stall at a college fest. With the young men and women busy taking part in and watching the events and also each other (lol), the response was meagre. Also, we realised that if attention has to be drawn, something exciting has to be arranged. Maybe next time we will include some games/videos/music and get them involved with puzzles. But it was a good learning experience on the whole.

World climate day 2009

On the occassion of International Day of Climate Action, Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals (IAEMP) in association with LIFE-Bengaluru invite you to an event that could change your thoughts and provide you new ideas on Energy Management in future. Be there!! Details of the event given below:


Theme – To promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Energy Efficiency
Date: 24 October 2009, Saturday, 9.30 am
Venue: Surana College, South-end Circle, Jayanagar, Bangalore
Occasion: International Day of Climate Action



The Five Activities


1. Creating a Green World (Poster Drawing Competition)
Suggested Themes for Poster making
• Reduce, reuse and recycle ( Refuse)
• Everything is energy, nothing is waste
• Energy efficiency begins at home ( Charity begins at Home)
• Local action for Global warming ( Think Global Act Local)
• Green Innovation is the path to a better future
• Save a drop, save a watt- avoid planet getting hot
Prizes worth -
- Rs. 7000/-
- Rs. 5000/-
- Rs. 3000/-


2. Green Idea Contest
Send an Idea relevant on Clean Technology or Green Business within 250 words.
One First Prize Rs. 1500/-
Two Second Prizes Rs. 1000/-
Three Third Prize Rs. 500/-


3. Panel Discussion on Green Business by experts


4. Introduction of HEMP, Home Energy Management Program - a presentation
Charity begins at home...


5. Stalls/Demonstrations/Presentations


Contact: Levine Lawrence - 9845535573
Vinod Durge - +91 98452 92557

Stall at "Namma Jathre"

The annual event Namma Jathre was organised at Freedom Park in Bangalore on the 29th and 30th of August. LIFE too was invited to keep a stall with the intention of awareness raising and displaying eco-friendly products. Despite the short notice for preparation (one day infact!), we were able to arrange a good display and were able to draw the attention of many of the visitors.

What was on display -

1) Containers for indoor plants made from used/waste glass bottles, bulbs and CDs. These were made with great innovativeness by contacts of LIFE and were well appreciated by one and all.

2) Terrariums - indoor plants kept in a air-tight container which need no taking care of i.e, self-sustaining replicating earth. These were sold for Rs. 200 and the money was forwarded to the trust fund.

3) Re-usable cotton bags - these were for sale for a price of Rs. 25. The money collected was forwarded to the trust fund. Mainly to discourage using of plastic bags to bring milk/groceries/veg.

4) Terracotta painted pots for indoor plants - display only.

5) Free saplings were distributed - singapore cherry, pongamia, tachoma, bignonia, basavana pada and others.

6) Display of recommended reading material - I brought some excellent reading material on the theme of environment which i had at home just to enourage others to read these books. These included - Magazines like Down to Earth and books like - Silent Spring, Gaia hypothesis, The Origin of Species, Hind Swaraj, From Crisis to Cure and Health for All Now.

A book was also kept for interested individuals to register with us to keep them updated on LIFE's events.

Event was concluded with music by Belaku trust for the economically poor children with a feast!

Many of the visitors enquired about LIFE objectives and activities; and these were well appreciated and encouraged. We hope you will be able to join us in our next event!

This was recoreded in TOI on 31st Aug' 09, page 5 column 6 or

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/City/Bangalore/NGOs-tell-world-what-they-do/articleshow/4952221.cms

Kindly find few pics at the following link.

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Participants from LIFE

Harsha, Aditya and Swapna

Wildlife survey event at Thali, Krishnagiri

Date of event - August 2nd, 2009

The event was organized by the members of the Kenneth Anderson Foundation and the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation. It is a part of an ongoing one year project which hopes to do the complete biodiversity survey in the forests of South west of Hosur with the intention of declaring it as a sanctuary. It was an opportunity for those inexperienced in the skills of wildlife survey.

Devarabetta is a hill surrounded by forests. These forests adjoins the Bannerghatta National Park. Due to various human activities, the forests in this region have become fragmented and this has led to various problems, especially for the elephants of the region. The corridors of movement of the pachyderms have been blocked on all sides and this has led to human animal conflict in the region. The result has been the death of several elephants and people.

The activity we participated in is called a ‘transect’ or rapid survey of mammals and reptiles, though technically it was not, because we walked along preformed paths. Since no records had been made earlier on the biodiversity in these forests, this was probably the first effort.

We participated in the survey activity on Sunday, the 2nd of august. It was started at 7 am and went on till almost 1:30 pm. Dr. Geetha Nayak of ANCF was the leader of the group and guided us on the walk. Three forest guards also accompanied us. The forests were mostly scrub forests with short trees, though riparian habitats were also seen near streams.

Evidence of species is recorded as –

Direct evidence: spotting the organism itself
Indirect evidence: the footprint, the shed skin, the feces, sounds etc.

Once identified, photographs are taken and also the location of evidence is recorded using GPS device. A survey map is also carried along to help us identify our location and elevation. Binoculars are helpful to observe the creatures from far.

We came across many species of birds, butterflies, lizards and snakes. It is a difficult job to identify the species and requires a lot of experience. All in all, the experience was a very good one and has given us many insights on conservation related work, survey methods and about trekking in forest areas. We surely look forward to more experiences in the future.
Participants:- Adithya, Harsha and Satvik, Prajesh nair and family, Ahmed.

Further events will be published from KANS.

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