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Information on Global Warming &  Awareness Programme

INTACH-350 Campaign

Lectures on Global Warming

30th Aug., 2009, Rotary Club, Ranchi North
 Rotary Club Acceptance Speech

3rd Oct., 2009 BIT Mesra, Architecture Department, Ranchi
Post Architectural Habitat in Context of  global warming

25th Oct., 2009, Rotary Club, Ranchi South & Rotary Bokaro
Global Warming : Choices and Options

22nd Nov., 2009, Rotary Club, Bokaro
 Introduction to Global Warming- The Role Rotary can Play

22nd Nov., 2009, Bokaro School Lectures

North Karanpura Campaign: Fighting for Flowers along the Damodar

Global Warming and the Environment

GLOBAL WARMING DENYERS AND DELAYERS

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 This campaign is an attempt to prevent ...
Annihilation of a landscape involving 3000sq.km of the Upper Damodar catchment including agricultural lands, forests, Tribal sacred sites, wildlife corridors, two hundred villages practicing Khovar and Sohrai ritual mural painting traditions, paleo-archaeological, megalithic and rock-art sites - by 31 new proposed and  3 operative opencast coal mines covering approx. 20sq.km for each mine of 300 feet and more deep. The Campaign began almost 23 years ago and is now entering its final phase. It was begun by Bulu Imam, Convener, INTACH Hazaribagh Chapter in 1987 and still continues under his guidance. The campaign is closely associated with the Tribal Women Artists Cooperative (TWAC) a non-registered organization under the aegis of INTACH and consists of women of the villages resisting mining which has several times been represented in Geneva at the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations on the issue of Karanpura opencast coal mining.
This campaign is supported by

Dr.James E. Hansen, Well-known Climate Researcher, Columbia University Earth Institute

 
           "The real global warming culprit-- as James Hansen and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies have long argued -- is burning coal to generate electricity"
                                                                                                                           Al Gore

          "The Government and the mining companies move as if we have plenty of time to rectify the carbon imbalance! Just 8 years at our disposal and the change must begin with Karanpura"

                                                                                                                            Robert Athickal
                                                                                                                           Director, Tarumitra

  UPDATES 2010
2070 - Water
Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam's presentation on Global Warming

Letter to the President of India
Over 1000 signatures of local villagers of Karanpura have been sent to the President with the hard copy of the above letter along with the list of the Signees of the online petition letter (See list of signees)

Sign Online Petition at : www.ipetitions.com/petition/Karanpura

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karanpura Valley – Before and After: Satpahar Range (Ashoka Opencast Mine)

Campaign Updates

Contact details:

Bulu Imam
Coordinator, Karanpura Campaign
Convener, INTACH Hazaribagh Chapter
"Sanskriti", Dipugarha, P.O.Hazaribagh 825 301, Jharkhand, INDIA
Tel: 06546-264820 / Fax: 06546-270815
Email: rch_buluimam@bsnl.in  / Website: www.sanskritihazaribagh.com
 
 
Webmaster: Gustav Imam
© Sanskriti, Hazaribagh, 2009



 

Signees to the letter to the President of India

Supporters

MAYUR Newsletter

Mayur 36
MAyur 37
Mayur 38
 

350 PRESS BRIEFINGS

350 PRESS RELEASE
 

End of an Era: Closing the Door on Building New Coal-fired Power Plants in America

FIAN Intervention in North Karanpura Valley