Dear Ankur. Paris dares to dream of a green city and not a concrete jungle built without plan of sanitation, running water, sewage, infrastructure, green spots and other amenities.
Any idea what Assam is doing in this area? Is there also a Climate Energy Plan of Guwahati and other towns aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emissions? <http://www.itsliquid.com/2050paris-smartcity-callebaut.html> http://www.itsliquid.com/2050paris-smartcity-callebaut.html more. <http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-parissmartcity2050.html> vincent.callebaut.org Those who are not aware of the activities of our "Jungle man" Jadav Payeng - he was already in Paris offering climate change solutions in France: Pls visit World hails Payeng's idea - Forest man offers climate change solution in France <http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150926/jsp/northeast/story_44600.jsp#.VlOJor -6I2E> also check http://sidnaina.blogspot.nl/2012/08/jadav-payeng-man-who-made-forest.html In Hindi they say Ghar ka murgi daal barabar (A talented man with his qualities have no value in his own house). With his back to basic approach, planting trees Payeng has already created a forest. He has already "fought the war against the barren lands to turn them into green forests". The government should use his talents and not throw away money in constructions of porcupines only. @Ankur, As AFNA has already started a successful plant-a-tree programme in the township of Bridgewater, USA you may contact <http://positiveeconomy.co> http://positiveeconomy.co to see AFNA can join hands with them and/or get support from them. Together with this group you should explore possibilities organising seminars in Assam and India. In Assam I can think of IIT Guwahati, Tezpur University, Kaziranga University, In Delhi Sanjoy Hazarika should be able to give some suggestions. The link to One heart one tree organisation is: https://www.1heart1tree.org/cop21/presentation @Deepak I hope by this time you are able to get some feed back from your fellow Board Members. The above information might be helpful to give the final push. @ Prashanta In your e-mail of 25th October you informed : I went to majuli and witness the success of Shantanoo's vetiver in protecting approach road of Doriya Dubi bridge". Do you have any image of the approach where Vetiver is used? I would like to include the same in my paper on use of vetiver for erosion control. Is the same bridge mentioned in the news item Bridge across the Doriya- RCC link between Garmur and Lakhimpur <http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101130/jsp/northeast/story_13235519.jsp> . Greetings, Wahid da _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
