AGRO-FORESTRY PROGRAMS
Tree-planting
activity starts with arrival of 2009 Monsoon rains
100 families in 5 villages in Thane district have
started tree-planting with support of CleanStar 2009 campaign partner NARAD.
See photos on Facebook >>
Trees at 2008 Campaign Pilot Site complete 1 year
More than 85% of the trees planted last year have survived their first full
year, despite a very erratic 2008 monsoon season and peak temperature of 43 C recorded in June.
CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM
Mobile Oil Processing
Unit now has dedicated Manager
Darshan Doshi will soon become the MOPU Program Manager responsible
for converting our concept into
reality.
He will also provide technical assistance to Field Director Ashok Pawar with small-scale oil
processing equipment procurement and commissioning at our Beed field site.
Darshan is
a Chemical Engineer with experience as a Process Engineer at Praj
Industries, Vardhaman
Fertilizers & Seeds, and Dhanlaxmi Engineering Enterprises. He is
an active member of NetImpact Pune and a volunteer with
the Akanksha Foundation.
Interested in MOPU? Request link to forthcoming MOPU Wiki >>
AWARENESS & ADVOCACY
PROGRAMS
The
Climate Project India & CleanStar Trust
India
Coordinator Archana Devar participated in TCPI's climate
change-training program for civil society, and has
become a member of The Climate Project India's Sustainable Leaders network.
Learn more about
TCPI >>
Furthermore, CleanStar's
model for sustainable agroforestry and clean energy
production was recently added as a case study in The Climate Project's
training presentation.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING & NETWORKING
CleanStar Trust
participates in Cornell Global Forum
This event brought together
financiers, researchers, and entrepreneurs from around the world to
outline strategies and initiatives for bringing clean technology to the world's 4.5 billion poor living at the
Base-of-the-Pyramid.
Trustee Sagun Saxena shared
CleanStar's experiences & insights to help shape the agenda for
forum's Sustainable Bioenergy Task Team.
CleanStar friends attend lively debate hosted by
the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew & the British Museum
The
debate on the topic of Environment vs. Development was entitled "Whose Landscape is it
Anyway?"
Our friend Anna Da Costa emailed us her reflections:
"If underdevelopment exists, then overdevelopment must also exist", said Debal Deb, one of the
four eminent speakers of the debate who all put forward thought provoking notions.
Writer Tahmima Anam described her Bangladeshi countrymen
and women as "climate pioneers" who may one day be an
inspiration to us in the West about how to cope with
submergence of landscapes.
Quoting Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha underscored the importance of India’s following a different developmental pathway: "God forbid that India should ever take to
industrialization after the manner of the West... The
economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom
[England] is today keeping the world in chains. If an
entire nation of 300 million took to similar economic
exploitation, it would strip the world bare like
locusts." -
M.K. Gandhi
(1928) >>
Lord Nicholas Stern emphasised the importance of a robust global deal for the rapid scale up of local climate solutions
already evident in India.
NEW VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Calling Google Earth & Web Techies!
CleanStar Trust is interested in launching a simple online system
for registering community-based tree planting activities & monitoring
progress. We have several ideas about how this system should work and believe it
can also benefit many of our field partners around the world.
We're urgently seeking the help of a technically-savvy volunteer who's good at Google Earth and web programming.
Want to
get involved? Email us for Project Brief >>
ANY
FEEDBACK?
Please email us at
info@cleanstartrust.org.
Thank you.
The CleanStar Trust Team
