Dear All,
Pournima Agarkar.
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| Poster for the workshop |
I am glad to announce that we at Samuchit Enviro Tech have organized a Nationwide Conference on Urban Sustainability in collaboration with LAYA and INECC on the 27th April, 2019 in Yashada, Baner.
The whole idea of undertaking a national conference is to connect/share happenings in the context of Urban Sustainability across different states of India as well as from different cities in Maharashtra. Its all about sharing knowledge, learnings and connecting to the global Sustainable Development Goals, smart city initiatives and citizens engagements undertaken on ground.
We believe that citizens are the critical stakeholders of the city and informing or sensitizing them on global issues is the need of the day. In addition to citizens embracing sustainable and responsible behaviour, we also want to encourage citizens to form pressure groups and impact policy decisions, which will promote local actions that lead to global solutions.
From this perspective, the one day conference will include inputs from various experts and practitioners. In addition, we are also calling for papers based on original research or outreach work broadly fitting into the conference objectives but focused on the following thematic areas.
- Housing for all in urban context
- Safe and affordable Transport within cities
- Cultural and Natural Heritage in urban setting
- Citizens Participation in Governance of cities
- Disaster risk Mitigation for cities
- Solid and Liquid Waste management and Air Pollution in cities
- Access to safe green open spaces in cities
- Operationalizing SDG 11 for urban sustainability in India
- Sustainability education in urban context
Please submit abstracts of maximum 200 words, this will go through a review process where papers will be selected for oral or poster presentations. The last date for submission of abstracts is 31st March, 2019.
Urban citizens, organisations, institutions, professionals, government officials etc. all are invited to participate in the meeting and contribute to the interactions, irrespective of whether you are presenting a paper or not! The conference will be focused on interactions rather than talks and lectures.
We also invite NGOs and social enterprises in Pune to participate in the Exhibition for Sustainable products display or sale which will be organised as a part of the conference as a side event!!!
Please click on this link to register in our Conference and kindly share it in your contacts. And do send in your abstract at the earliest!
www.samuchit.com
ReplyDeleteMy intention is to make people aware that these can be done by everyone. Unfortunately we have been spoilt by getting this resource at a very highly subsidised rates which makes take this resource for granted. People do not understand that not more than 2% of water is available for sustenance of our life even though the planet is having 75% water and it is becoming difficult every day to get access to this 2% also.
Hence I put across very enthusiasm this message of effective use of this resource called WATER. My intention is to use resources to such an extent that you cannot use further and then send for recycling to an effluent treatment plant or sewage treatment plant as explained in below link
http://www.thebetterindia.com/95042/simple-plumbing-hacks-helped-bengaluru-family-cut-water-bills-half/.
I recycle 80000 to 90000 litres of grey water per month for flushing toilets thereby saving minimum 80000 litres of pure drinking water per month
Using since October 2006. Hence during last 150 months 80000*150= 12000000 litres drinking water has been saved. Another plus point- load on sewage treatment plant is also reduced by 80000 litres per month. Just imagine if every house practices this how much drinking water will be saved and how much the sewage treatment plant will work.
My contact details are 9243460550 9243444828 vksaxena54@gmail.com.
U can also come and see the system working along with your contacts. You can share the same with your other contacts