New Look for our Newsletter is to observe Earth Day. This day should have significance in our lives atleast from now.
Results
As expected results are no full majority. The irony is, in news channels, nobody is considering Loksatta as mainstream kingmaker party, but in our poll LOKSATTA and Congress got the majority votes. 33% each.
We appreciate the suggestion of who should form the govt? Yes, you are right! it is good to have opinion than prediction.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The Week Gone By
- 58-62% Voter turnout in the 1st phase of Elections.
- About 90% voter turnout in Nagaland.
- Second Phase will be held on April 22nd , 23rd.
- Mr. Gopalaswami is going to end his service as Cheif Election Commissioner today.
- 3 killed as Maoist forces attack security forces.
- 10 CISF Personnel killed as Maoists strike at Orissa mine.
- World to celebrate Earth week and Earth Day on April 22nd.
- Deccan Chargers,Bangalore Royal Challengers,Delhi Dare Devil, Mumbai Indians secure wins in the second Indian Premier League going on in South Africa.
New Political Transformation
I hope many of you had exercised your votes. This time the vote awareness campaign is in a large scale. The major momentum to vote in large scale came from the newly turned promising good people to politicians. So, looking them entering into the Political forum people also got inspired and also felt responsible to vote. This is a very significant positive change. Many, Executives, former bureaucrats, Auto Driver, Social Activists, film actors the list goes on, felt responsible and came forward to contest elections.
Mr.Jaya Prakash Narayan, former IAS, LOKSATTA founder, has started LOKSATTA political party in 2006 and is in full flow in convincing the educated youth. Mr. JP is pulling youth towards Election booths. He is expected to play a crucial role in state politics.
Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Former under Secretary General of U.N., is contesting elections from Trivandrum. He was a contestant for UN Secretary General and secured second in the contest. He was involved in humanitarian issues in Africa for over 30 years. Country needs this kind of intelligentsia in prospering further in efficient path. We are lucky destiny made him to contest for MP rather than Secretary General.
Ms. Meera Sanyal, Chairperson of ABN AMRO Bank, has taken sabbatical leave from her job and is contesting the Elections from South Mumbai.
Ms. Mallika Sarabai, Social Activist, is contesting against Mr. Advani in Gandhinagar.
Mr.E. Sharath Babu, IIM –A, Entrepreneur, is contesting as an Independent from South Chennai.
On the whole some prominent people from bureaucracy, executives of MNC’s, social activists are coming forward to contest the elections. This is really amazing.
Thanks to the media for projecting the candidates and questioning them on behalf of public. But the same media is also showing biased opinions. Especially in Andhra Pradesh, the media is reporting in a biased manner. Each channel is demonizing their rival party. The very essence of Unbiased Journalism is being lost. People should understand what is wrong and what is right.
-Optimistic Indian
Mr.Jaya Prakash Narayan, former IAS, LOKSATTA founder, has started LOKSATTA political party in 2006 and is in full flow in convincing the educated youth. Mr. JP is pulling youth towards Election booths. He is expected to play a crucial role in state politics.
Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Former under Secretary General of U.N., is contesting elections from Trivandrum. He was a contestant for UN Secretary General and secured second in the contest. He was involved in humanitarian issues in Africa for over 30 years. Country needs this kind of intelligentsia in prospering further in efficient path. We are lucky destiny made him to contest for MP rather than Secretary General.
Ms. Meera Sanyal, Chairperson of ABN AMRO Bank, has taken sabbatical leave from her job and is contesting the Elections from South Mumbai.
Ms. Mallika Sarabai, Social Activist, is contesting against Mr. Advani in Gandhinagar.
Mr.E. Sharath Babu, IIM –A, Entrepreneur, is contesting as an Independent from South Chennai.
On the whole some prominent people from bureaucracy, executives of MNC’s, social activists are coming forward to contest the elections. This is really amazing.
Thanks to the media for projecting the candidates and questioning them on behalf of public. But the same media is also showing biased opinions. Especially in Andhra Pradesh, the media is reporting in a biased manner. Each channel is demonizing their rival party. The very essence of Unbiased Journalism is being lost. People should understand what is wrong and what is right.
-Optimistic Indian
Some Solutions to save Earth
This article is written on the occasion of Earth Day which is observed on April 22nd.
Sometime in the 22nd century, in the year 2105 due to trash on the Earth, earth’s population is sent on Spaceliners to spend 5 years on a cruise while an army of trash compactor Robots named WALL.E were left behind to clean the Earth. The planet becomes more toxic to support life and makes the people remain in space indefinitely. Are you foreseeing the future of humanity? Fortunately, after seven hundred years WALL.E develops sentience and sense of emotion like human being and later it makes the humanity come back to the planet and plant a tree and starts restoring the home planet. The plot is from WALL.E. Do you want this to happen with us? If we will not feel responsible, we will definitely land up in that situation. Earth Day is observed just to inspire people in saving Earth.
Earth day was designed to inspire awareness and appreciation of Earth’s environment. It was started in 1969. The modern Environment movement started with fighting against oil spills, polluting factories, power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, extinction of wildlife etc. In the course of time the awareness is created in the wider parts of the world.
Recently in Australia 200,000 litres of oil leaked into waters and the oil spill has spread along 60 km of Queensland coast. Significant damage was done to the aquatic life transforming into an environmental disaster.
Cement factories make up one of the world’s biggest industries and they represent an industry that produces more than 5% of mankind’s CO2 emissions. There is a new technology in its incubation stage which might change the future of Earth, CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE (CCS), which captures the carbon and ultimately reduces the carbon emissions. In April, 2009 a Power Plant in South of France started functioning on CCS technology. This technology could save the planet from expected increased use of coal in power stations around the world. At its best, it could trap up to 90% of a power plant’s carbon emissions.
Tim Flannery, an Australian scientist and Environmentalist, recently gave a speech in New Delhi on Pyrolysis. This involves taking any biological material- say crop waste, human sewage- and heating it in the absence of oxygen, effectively cooking it in the process. What you get out of that procedure are three products-a synthetic gas which we use to generate electricity, a crude oil substitute that can be used to make plastics or fertilizers, and charcoal (this contains most of the carbon in the original biological material and if you put the charcoal back into the soil it helps with soil fertility). Experiments done in Australia showed that crop yield increased by 30% just by putting charcoal into the soil.
Coming to the wildlife, many species are at endangered level. Only due to our selfishness the animals are getting extinct. There are some societies which are trying to conserve the rare species. In India, our very own National Animal, there are only 1500 tigers left out. You see tigers missing from the reserves very often. Recently scientists had discovered about 14 species of frogs in the Western Ghats of India. So, there is some work going on in order to conserve the animals.
To monitor the carbon emissions and reduce the pollution and commitment towards Sustainable Development. About 172 countries met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to discuss on scrutiny on patterns of production, growing scarcity of water which led to an important agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to Kyoto Protocol. Almost all the countries ratified except USA. This year we have Copenhagen climate change summit. World is expecting for the US Govt to ratify the agreement. USA is the largest per capita emitter of CO2 from burning of Fossil Fuels. R.K.Pachauri, Al Gore of IPCC have been instrumental in promoting sustainable development. They were conferred Nobel Peace Prize for their tremendous commitment.
At least at this point of time when youth is feeling the importance of vote, they should also be start feeling the importance of environment.
SAVE EARTH!
Source: Guardian, Wikipedia, Frontline
- Optimistic Indian
Sometime in the 22nd century, in the year 2105 due to trash on the Earth, earth’s population is sent on Spaceliners to spend 5 years on a cruise while an army of trash compactor Robots named WALL.E were left behind to clean the Earth. The planet becomes more toxic to support life and makes the people remain in space indefinitely. Are you foreseeing the future of humanity? Fortunately, after seven hundred years WALL.E develops sentience and sense of emotion like human being and later it makes the humanity come back to the planet and plant a tree and starts restoring the home planet. The plot is from WALL.E. Do you want this to happen with us? If we will not feel responsible, we will definitely land up in that situation. Earth Day is observed just to inspire people in saving Earth.
Earth day was designed to inspire awareness and appreciation of Earth’s environment. It was started in 1969. The modern Environment movement started with fighting against oil spills, polluting factories, power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, extinction of wildlife etc. In the course of time the awareness is created in the wider parts of the world.
Recently in Australia 200,000 litres of oil leaked into waters and the oil spill has spread along 60 km of Queensland coast. Significant damage was done to the aquatic life transforming into an environmental disaster.
Cement factories make up one of the world’s biggest industries and they represent an industry that produces more than 5% of mankind’s CO2 emissions. There is a new technology in its incubation stage which might change the future of Earth, CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE (CCS), which captures the carbon and ultimately reduces the carbon emissions. In April, 2009 a Power Plant in South of France started functioning on CCS technology. This technology could save the planet from expected increased use of coal in power stations around the world. At its best, it could trap up to 90% of a power plant’s carbon emissions.
Tim Flannery, an Australian scientist and Environmentalist, recently gave a speech in New Delhi on Pyrolysis. This involves taking any biological material- say crop waste, human sewage- and heating it in the absence of oxygen, effectively cooking it in the process. What you get out of that procedure are three products-a synthetic gas which we use to generate electricity, a crude oil substitute that can be used to make plastics or fertilizers, and charcoal (this contains most of the carbon in the original biological material and if you put the charcoal back into the soil it helps with soil fertility). Experiments done in Australia showed that crop yield increased by 30% just by putting charcoal into the soil.
Coming to the wildlife, many species are at endangered level. Only due to our selfishness the animals are getting extinct. There are some societies which are trying to conserve the rare species. In India, our very own National Animal, there are only 1500 tigers left out. You see tigers missing from the reserves very often. Recently scientists had discovered about 14 species of frogs in the Western Ghats of India. So, there is some work going on in order to conserve the animals.
To monitor the carbon emissions and reduce the pollution and commitment towards Sustainable Development. About 172 countries met in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to discuss on scrutiny on patterns of production, growing scarcity of water which led to an important agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to Kyoto Protocol. Almost all the countries ratified except USA. This year we have Copenhagen climate change summit. World is expecting for the US Govt to ratify the agreement. USA is the largest per capita emitter of CO2 from burning of Fossil Fuels. R.K.Pachauri, Al Gore of IPCC have been instrumental in promoting sustainable development. They were conferred Nobel Peace Prize for their tremendous commitment.
At least at this point of time when youth is feeling the importance of vote, they should also be start feeling the importance of environment.
SAVE EARTH!
Source: Guardian, Wikipedia, Frontline
- Optimistic Indian
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