June 5, 2011 was World Environment Day! Some parts of Kathmandu were bubbling with positive energy with treehuggers spreading awareness on sustainable consumption and environmental awareness. I hoped to contribute my fair share by taking likeminded individuals (tree huggers) to a free screening of a documentary – “The age of Read more…
Amidst merry making in view of Bhatte’s upcoming marriage, the camp fire in front of Mone’s living quarters also served as venue where an interesting discourse on development and environment took place. The only environmental science graduate among civil engineers, electrical (power) and computer engineers, I had a tough battle Read more…
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development – ICIMOD‘s Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) is just out with its winter issue. This special issue on ‘Youth and Climate Change’ has been compiled to underscore the International Year of Youth (IYY) 2010-2011; COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico; and the increasing interest of young people in taking part in activities related to climate change issues. It contains the views of young people, information about various opportunities, an APMN youth activity review, and other features. This issue was formally launched by Mr. Daan Boom, APMN Coordinator and Integrated Knowledge Management Programme Manager, ICIMOD, coinciding with COP 16 meeting later today.
Annexed below is my review of ‘Climate Change – Youth Guide to Action’ published in the very same. (more…)
Mountaineer, photographer and filmmaker (director and leader of the Everest IMAX team) David Breashears is in the limelight again because of his “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya” exhibition. Part of his Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP), David and his team, will undertake “repeat photography” of the Himalayan region and the Tibetan plateau by following the footsteps of mountaineers from the past 110 years. He has meticulously reproduced photographs of the Main Rongbuk glacier north of the Everest summit after George L. Mallory (who first took it in 1921 AD) after a period of eighty six years.
David Breashears compares the Rhonbuk glacier in 2007 with a b/w photograph taken by Mallory eighty six years ago
Source: low res screen capture from e360.yale.edu [link] (more…)
So reads the hoarding board inside the Bhat Bhateni supermarket complex and a few other places in Kathmandu. Part of the World’s Longest Toilet Queue campaign targeted towards World Water day 2010 (celebrated every year on the 22 of March) the text roughly translated reads Even today, 14 million Nepalese Read more…
This was/is one of my silent resolutions of 2010. Amidst all the hype with the new venture dead centre in Kathmandu, I had my mind set on boycotting the eatery! Why? This resolution gained ground, primarily because I did not want to pay a shit load for Brazilian chicken KFC supposedly Read more…
Download the Youth Can do e-discussion summary Just completed a synthesis report of an e-discussion for the Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) which ran from April to May. Quite a number of people shared their views on the theme – ‘The Young Can Do! Let’s Protect Forests with Our Hands’. Read more…
While declaring a “national energy crisis” in Nepal, our government green signaled a plan to develop a 200 MW thermal plant. Generating power eight hours a day for 240 days in a year, the plant will incur a yearly loss of more than Rs 5 billion (which too will be Read more…
I spent a greater half of yesterday evening reading about a to-be-released film –The age of Stupid from director Franny Armstrong (of Mclibel and Baked Alaska) and producer John Battsek. A brief synopsis posted on the web summarises of an archivist played by Pete Postlethwaite (from In the name of Read more…
Ignorance is bliss, or is it? What if, we were all oblivious to the pesticides, antibiotics in our food, the smoke/smog in our atmosphere, the toxins in the drinking water and the problems with all our daily lives (carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, “tennis elbow”) and a lot others. Wouldn’t life Read more…
