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a tiny step towards upgradig the environment.

kals_nam@yahoo.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:27:48 +0000

The huge yet small community of TCV is yet again making efforts to keep our school environment neat and clean. though it might seem a little childish to write down the names of the students who loiter in the campus by the students in the my climate group yet in a way it has given its own share if contribution. As its not at all easy to make all the students ranging from montessori classes to the senior's to understand the impact their individual actions have on the environment hence i think what measures we have adopted now are the best for the timebeing. as there really is no need to be so strict when the students just due to the fear of getting caught loitering have significantly gone down.it's a good starting afterall. and even the school administration is heavily involved in this.

TCV School,no more a paradise education centre

sharkeeboy@yahoo.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:31:40 +0000

TCV school,the head of all tcv schools,is one of the most beautiful Education Centre in whole India with an altitude of 3200ft above the sea level,it is famous for it's picturesque sitescenes,silent lakes,pleasant Asian Health Resort hotal and restaurant aorund the dal lake and mountain views.
While nature has been kind to tcv school,students proved cruel.A section os student as well as administration proved cruel against nature,causing harm to landscopes,greenery and shores.they have no spared roads,lanes,bye-lanes,river banks,parks and even gardens.

Famous tourist resort like school temple and the sacred dal lake are being dumped by garbages by students.

The constant traffic with it's noise and exhaust fumes,the filt in certain areas and the constant encroachments are destroying the charm of tcv school.
If we start from what is known as the fashionable area of tcv school,right from the school head office and the canteen road,from tuck shop to garbage shed,one can find dirt and garbage dumps everywhere,besides encroachments.Urinals on the roadside spreading foul smell and rainwater,which has no outlet,worsen the situation.
The administration has not provided even a dustbin on vital points and has not developed the culture of throwing waste material on a particular place.Srinagar municipality has,instead,made many spots in school as dumping ground.
The parks are not being maintain.They have been just kept for nusery purposes for catering to the bungalows and lawns of the higher-ups.

The condition of roads in this education centre is miserable.You can see ponds and pools with dirty water increasing the rate of accidents and creating hurdles.No doubt,crores of rupees are being spent for it's development and repairs,but just on papers.This particular school and the whole campus is general will lose it's charm and attraction if attention is not paid by the people at the helm of affairs without wasting much time!

ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGES IN AND AROUND THE UPPER T.CV

tenjangs@yahoo.com — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:24:25 +0000

A strong and positive attitude creates more miracles than other things because in life 10%is how you make it and 90% is how you take it.So,if you take it wisely with full of awarness we will have happy life .So,what we can contibute toward our local environment is basic step of life its our responsibility to care of our local environment as we should think globally and act locally.That will be our main aim of the climate foundation

Is human activity heating up the planet?

sharkeeboy@yahoo.com — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:32:01 +0000

i'm tenzin shakya belonging to upper tcv school and i'm very much glad to participate in this my climate project.here i want to share brief imformation about thre changes hitted by human activity. "Climate change is the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible," as said by former US President Bill Clinton at the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Today there is little doubt that climate change is occurring, and that negative consequences are beginning to emerge. Many observers point to the increasing number of severe storms, floods, and heat waves in recent years as indicators of changing climatic conditions. The vast majority of related scientific research confirms a direct relationship between human activity, the rising levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, and climate change in the form of global warming. The Earth's average temperature has risen by around 0.6 °C over the past century years due to human activity. Although it may not sound like much, this slight change has already altered rain and snowfall patterns, and has resulted in a rise in sea levels and the gradual retreat of most non-polar glaciers. the rate of climate change is increasing. If there was one ultimate energy source to break the world’s addiction to fossil fuels, expert Robert Hirsch says the world would be using it by now.

While wind turbines and solar panels remain the popular symbols of a future clean-energy economy, scientists and engineers are busy cooking up a plethora of new technologies to save and produce energy.

Finding alternatives to climate-damaging oil and coal energy is all about diversification. None of the proposed "climate solutions" could stabilize greenhouse gas emissions or meet the world's energy demands alone. But taken together, they could be important pieces of the puzzle.

who really is suffering.

kals_nam@yahoo.com — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:40:01 +0000

its been decades since we have been living the way we are rite now i mean sure some of the accomodities have developed a lot lately but are we really comfortable with everythign around us no way 1 i am not at all comfy!!!not with the environmental conditions not with the ...people actimg so indifferent and specially not with myself turning a blind eye to all this.oh mine! look at this our beautiful lakes are drying and our fishes are dying and we are buying water which we had such aplenty before now wat is really happening we are all eye witnesses to everything changing in here but we still choose to keep silent.well i can't and i think we all shouldn't just keep quiet either.we are students learning things to bring about better changes in our world but we are ot really doning our job well there is more destruction than develpoment i want to cry out of frustration but its surely not goingto be opf any help wat do you all say huh?lets please think for everyone who is living and those who are yet to exist here. and decide upon measure to save our mother earth.haven't we all realised who is really suffering.

A first step together

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:34:55 +0000

In the next 1000 years, the thermometer won't fall. This because of too much CO2 in the air and we can't do anything against it. Even if there were no CO2 discharge anymore, nothing would change. All this is because the temperature is changing even slower than the CO2 concentration in the air. This global heating tends to result in a higher sea level and this is very dangerous to many countries which have access to the sea.If we continue living like this, at the end of this century half of the people will be hungry. All this because the average temperatures are rising dramatically.Many of the nature phenomena will be destroyed, just to give an example: Almost all of the glaciers have lost from 1864-2005 half of their size. If we continue and don’t do anything to avoid this, the next generations will just see pictures of the glaciers.We think it’s a big problem and every person has to do something. We hope that the people in a few years won’t suffer from the fact that we haven’t done anything.In our newspapers the get-together in Washington is mentioned. Agents from all over the world will talk about the climate. In the center of the discussion is the reduction of the greenhouse gases.They want to extend the validity of the Kyoto pact and have the promise that the USA and China enter in to the pact which means, that they give the best to reduce the greenhouse gases.It’s a problem which is always in the newspapers but often there are local events which are more in front.We are angry about the fellow men who don’t care about the climate change.We don’t feel any responsibility as a single person about this. Every person thinks the other one should look after the climate change. But it doesn’t solve the problem because every person has to begin personally himself. We hope that our environment wil get better as our world administration can find a solution for the problem.It isn’t indifferent for us what’s happening to our world, but we always want that someone else makes the first step and begins with the change.Our feeling is anger, because we feel responsible about the environment and don’t want to destroy the world. So we are angry about the people who don’t care about the problem and also a bit about us because we always think the others should make the first step. At the end nobody does it. We have to change our polluting habits. Otherwise our children will live in a destroyed world. Millions of people will lose their place to live, because of the sea-level rise. But we can change the world all together. What do you think about our ideas? How could we do a first step together?

even a single sincere person can make

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Hi i am Passang Tsekeyof Upper Tibetans ChildrensVillage . Thanks for your valuable concern.I agree with you .The world is running short of time to save our planet from global warming. It is now or never. Each responsible man on this earth should do something to stop the looming ecological disaster. Here I wish to share a heartening news from India, state of Uttarakhand. I have come across a man who is nicknamed as Tree man. He has been planting tree for the last 50 years. By now he has already planted five hundred thousand trees - mainly Oak, cedar, Rodendendron and fruit trees. He did this after his dear father passed away suddenly in his early life to forget the pangs of separation.He treat the trees like his children and does not plant trees during night. He says that planting trees in the night will disturb the sleep of other trees. He now has grown a whole jungle singlehandedly and the villagers think that he is a mad man to do such a hard work without any personal gains. His ultimate wish is to be buried in his own forest and plant a sapling on his grave.He also pray hard to be reborn fast so that he can go on planting trees. In case we motivate and bring awareness about the global warming in the people in the world, even a single sincere person can make difference in the world.

The hush , rush , and noise starts to fade away

hey_sweetiekunsang@yahoo.com — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:52:18 +0000

«if we have a positive attitude towards the environment (for eg. thinking of earth as our home).Then automatically we will show great respect towards nature.»The headlines written as INDIVIDUAL CAN MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN CLIMATE CHANGE BY CHANGING ONE'S LIFESTYLE has impressed me most because if each individual changes his or her lifestyle by pacing towards low carbon economy then in a whole we can protect our earth. For many reasons this year’s winter vacation has been one of a kind and of course I cant hold myself in writing about days I spent in Bhutan with my family . We had to stay at the border place called Phuntsok ling for two days and get our documents corrected. Finally our journey started in Bhutan . As we entered BHUTAN, we know that we are in a totally different country .. .. The hush , rush , and noise starts to fade away and one can hear the blowing of air and view the eternal beauty of mother nature .. Yes we are in BHUTAN …It was not before when we reached the capital city Thimbhu , my brother was calling it as Untouched Civilization and to some extent I also agreed because we could hardly see any buildings , houses and structures around , rather its filled with trees all around . Thimbhu , the capital city , even though not as huge like Delhi is well structured ..It is the place where you will find the different departments of the government of Bhutan . Incidentally the guide of our tour was my brother with his lonely planet book on Bhutan. Almost all the things about this country are good except for the food . It is expensive and in addition one can't have much choices because of scarcity of vegetables . The food called Eama Dasai is considered very delicious but for me it got my tongue burnt and I also had problem with my stomach the next day .. So , yes, we are in Bhutan for pilgrimage . For that we have to go to another place called PARO about 35 km from Thimbhu. When we reached Paro valley , I was spell bound by the magnificent beauty of the mother nature, presented before us . It looked just like the places of TIBET which I have noticed in magazines and in television .. Such was the beauty that indeed I felt that our environment is really the greatest asset we have and we should be preserving it . This place is known for ancient creations of buddhist stupas and temples. We woke up early in the morning next day as we have to climb up the mountain to get the holy blessings of site called TAKTSANG( tiger’s nest) where GURU RINPOCHE( GURU PADMASAMBHAVA) is said to have flown on the back of tigress in the 8th century and meditated. Since it’s the first time we were going there , we don’t have much idea about the time even though its written in lonely planet that its about one hour way but for us it took nearly about three hours to reach there . On the way we met a bhutanese family , same destination as ours. Incidentally we became good friends and also had lunch together. When we got near to taktsang there is huge water fall and I thought that Guru Rinpoche must have taken the drinks from there and felt his choice of place to meditate , excellent . The holy site is also known to fulfill the wishes of the pilgrims . So I wished and prayed for the happiness of all the sentient beings( Do wa rik duk ) , long life of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, good result of my students in the upcoming board examination and something for myself. . Over all i really feel good to have visited BHUTAN as i now know that there are countries which really care for their land and preserves it with discipline and with proper rules and regulation . i just wonder when can india take such steps. i do know that india is a huge country so may be it will take some time . hoping for the best . guess what - just take a look at this very beautiful country , BHUTAN.

developing?

freeme_pal@yahoo.co.in — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:05:05 +0000

a good friend of mine who is a cook ina small stall said that he was really hating waht we call digital world and a developing country. for him the civilisation was imlportant and till now no other ages have brought up such bad result as this. everything ending up in eithere being harmful to the earth or to the animals. he wishes to see the old india where everything was fine and clean and beautiful and everything recogned as nature. people are getting hooked up with modern technology that they forget the nature and no one can live without them.

tourist

freeme_pal@yahoo.co.in — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:45:46 +0000

a barbar in mcloed ganj and a good friend of mine said that the rising of the temperature was because of the tourists. because of them the govt of himachal pradesh are taking in aloot of vehicles and other means to entertain the tourists. his idea for atleast reducing the problem was to make this hotspot in to a nature spot where no vehicles are allowed. and all the people are on fooot. this is a very good idea ithink. in one of my ideas i have said that let all the cars be parked at the entrance of the town and let there be two bus moving is opposote direction simontaniously which would take care of the transportation problem. if any special deliveries then make a time to let it happen and that time would not interfear with the normal transporatin routine. it would make it so that those who want to go to another place then they can onyl go on foot or by the only bus that is available

fire?

freeme_pal@yahoo.co.in — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:33:28 +0000

i interviewed a a friend of mine who is a cobbler. while he was busy mending my shoe and he cursing because of the heat i took the opportunity to question him about the weather. i asked him"uncle ,do you feel any difference in the temperature condition" cobbler"yes, and a lot of difference" i knew he was going to say that as we were both mountain people and the heat was killing him. it is a change he said made due to burning lots and lots of trees he said. i asked him again. why he thought it was because of fire. he told me that they the people did this in order to make more space for agriculture porpose or to increase the area of urbanization i asked for any precautions that he may be able to use to stop this action,however he had a long face when i asked this. he said that the govt wouldnt give any response since the govt of india are now so much in developing and want to go on i didnt get his precautions but he has noticed the temperature rising

heat is killing us

jangchup_g@yahoo.com — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:44:11 +0000

in our place there is increase in number of cars ang more number of tourists. and they crowd the streets and having so many traffic problems and our environment has became so noisy and we are very sick of the global warming and most of the tourists came in around bhagsu(swimming pool ang river) where i like to be the most.and now a days it had became so dirty and the air has became very smelly.

Resolution on World Environment Day!!!!

tenjangs@yahoo.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:04:59 +0000

to be really truthful , i have never ever wished or took notice of this day " World Environment Day" until now perhaps because of ignorance or lack of knowledge . And i feel so lucky that i am not too late to have realized the importance of this day which reminds us of the most precious asset we have right now and that is our mother nature, our environment . Until this year i have never ever given a single moment of thought that by riding the motor bike somehow adds to the rise in CO2 gas levels and ofcourse to the greatest environment challenge of the century "GLOBAL WARMING". But lucky me , i have now started to think on it . Flashing back , i have made use of bike many times when i could have simply made without it . so on this day , i have a resolution dedicating to my mothe earth and that is i will use public transport as much as possible and walk as much as possible . so this is my message to all the youngsters " try this, you actually feel much smarter walking by the road rather than riding on a bike"

Combating climate change( Mission 2009)

tenjangs@yahoo.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:22:18 +0000

STEP I:( may -june 2009) My climate group will be further subdivided into three groups ( A,B and C) and each group consists of 8 to 10 students and will be lead by 2 to 3 teachers . These groups will study the climatic condition and livelihood in kangra district of which dharamsala is a part . we plan to investigate these aspects in the last ten years . heres the pattern that we are going to follow

GROUP INVESTIGATION(1999-2009)

A. human population growth and its effect B. temperature change in the region C Precipitation pattern

too hot

freeme_pal@yahoo.co.in — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:16:54 +0000

hi every one i am a big fan of the hottest topic global warming here i have been observing the weather for a long time since last year. i feel a lot of difference because i know the reason why and when i ask other people about any changes the answers are very similar all are saying it way to hot i am not only concerned about the current the weather but also really concerned about the environmeantal conditon. i am through this project i may be able to help improve the condition. ask other people about what the changes and teir reaction thanks gopal tcv school

WE CARE

tenjangs@yahoo.com — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:29:27 +0000

Upper Tibetan children's Village school brings forward a group of student and teacher ( myclimate) eager to contibute in what ever ways to find solutions to combat the life threatening challenge of global warming and climate change . Our regards to all the participating schools. We hope to have a active discussion on this topic and would like to welcome any suggestions and ideas not only from our partner class (Kantonsschule Baden, Switzerland and Makongo, Tansania) but from any other classes. Our special thanks to MYCLIMATE FOUNDATION for bestowing on us the wonderful opportunity to do something good .We are the sons and daughters of our mother earth .