Earth Day Network Launches eBook, Pathways to Green Cities: Innovative Ideas from Urban India (Vol 2)
KOLKATA, India, April 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Day Network (EDN), an NGO based out of Washington, DC and Kolkata, India, grew out of the first Earth Day 45 years ago. The organization now engages with over 22,000 partners in some 192 countries to broaden and diversify the environmental movement. Today, over one billion people come together to commemorate Earth Day, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
This Earth Day, April 22, EDN is launching an eBook, Pathways to Green Cities: Innovative Ideas from Urban India (Vol 2) at the ITC Maurya, Delhi.
The eBook exemplifies the theme for Earth Day 2015, "It's Our Turn to Lead," by showcasing innovative ways organizations have developed strategies to lead green movements in their cities.
The volume has several accounts that focus on waste management, recycling, renewables, and 'upcycling' – a method to refashion discarded items into useful ones thus prolonging their use, and reducing demand on fresh, raw materials. Read how old tires are turned into sandals, discarded bags into high fashion accessories, musical instruments created out of junk, and more. Solar energy is another focus area. There is a fascinating account of how solar cookers installed at community kitchens at popular religious sites have proven to be effective alternatives to using Liquid Petroleum Gas for cooking. Volume 2 describes bicycling as the top green alternative for transportation. We have studies of cycles fashioned out of natural products such as bamboo, and of ways cycles can be used to provide that first and last mile connect to public transport that often only operates along arterial routes.
Many of the case studies from Volume 1 of the eBook launched on Earth Day last year have already been successfully replicated. One case in particular, the account of how ragpickers turn into entrepreneurs, was recognized by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with the 'Lighthouse Activity Award' at COP 20 last December in Peru.
Karuna Singh, Country Director EDN & Zubin Songadwala, General Manager ITC Maurya request the pleasure of your company for the launch of Pathways to Green Cities: Innovative Ideas from Urban India (Vol 2).
Date: 22nd April, 2015
Time: 17:00hrs – 19:30 hrs
Venue: ITC Maurya
Karuna A. Singh
Country Director - India
Earth Day Network
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +91-9831356576
http://www.earthday.net
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