Situated in the National Capital Region the Delhi Chapter has been the center of major IYCN activities. Recently for the Global Day of Action gave birth to the entire waste management project in the Raisina Bengali School in C.R.Park. The project is just a starting point for various other waste related projects in the area. And is looking to be taken forward in the future with greater participation from the community members.
Contact : contact@delhi.iycn.in
Green Ambassadors Workshop - Goodyear India Ltd
After the intial eco audit last year, a team from the Eco Audit program visited Goodyear India Ltd’s Jasola corporate office on 12th of Jan for the Green Ambassadors workshop.
Waste Mgmt Workshop Delhi 31st Dec'11
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Waste Management Project
The Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) started a WASTE MANAGEMENT PROJECT in order to contribute towards solving the major challenge of inefficient management of solid waste in Delhi.
IYCN, in association with “Srishti” and UN-Habitat launched the project at Kali Bari Mandir, Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi with the help of the setup of Excel’s OWC (Organic Waste Compost) machine. It was inaugurated by Smt. Sushma Swaraj on 2nd October 2011. Through this project, IYCN envisions reducing, recycling and reusing through efficient management of organic waste generated in the city by converting it into compost.
Details of the Project:
This project works on implementation of a waste management system that is aimed at managing the organic and food waste generated by the temple (includes all food, garlands of flowers & leaves) and putting into OWC. Besides this machine, there is a ‘shredder’ (to grind the waste so that it decomposes faster), ‘racks’ to store the processed waste for curing and finally some space for packaging the compost.
RTI Workshop
The Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) in association with The Youth Parliament Foundation (TYPF) organised a one day workshop on Right to Information (RTI) Act on the 22nd of October, 2011 at the Youth Hub. The workshop was attended by 8 participants from the IYCN.
Waste Management Masti
The next Waste Management Masti Workshop - Feb 25, 2011 at C.R Park, New Delhi.
Waste Management Masti is a one day interactive workshop comprising of visits to landfill sites, interaction with experts and hands on training on waste management solutions. It is a part of the 'Building Communities through Compost' project that showcases how young people in Delhi are addressing the challenges arising from the huge amounts of waste generated in Delhi and also converting them into new opportunities.
Building communities through compost is a youth-led community based waste management project that is being implemented in CR Park, New Delhi. The project is aimed at converting the organic waste generated in the community into compost thus reducing the amount of waste transported to the landfill leading to reduction of the emission GHGs from both the landfill & the transportation. The compost generated is sold back to the community, thus leading to creation of jobs, increase in income and new revenue models for all the stakeholders involved. Click Here to Sign UP for the workshop
EAP Green Ambassador Program Training - 27/08/11
GAP (Green Ambassador Program) & Carbon Footprint Training
Date: Saturday, 27 August 2011.
Time: 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue: ERM office, DLF Corporate Park, Gurgaon
Participants: Pranav Sinha & Padma Valli (ERM Trainers, EAP’s Technical Support)
18 currently active EAP students
Meera Singh (Program Manager, EAP)
Bhagya Saxena (Program Coordinator, EAP)
What was covered: Report writing review and training, tools for calculating CF, GAP training
Report Writing
Students were provided with valuable feedback on the post-audit reports they create. Several specific recommendations were given to make report quality more professional. Key points highlighted were:
• Quantify and qualify to give SPECIIFC findings
• Use of appropriate language
• Provided photographic evidence as much as possible
• Use of appendices/attachments for photographs, “Did you knows”, and additional info
Carbon Footprint calculation
Students were provided resources and tools to help with the carbon footprint calculation portion of Eco-Audit reports. CF calculation for transport will be included in reports. This will improve the end product given to the companies eco-audited.
Green Ambassador Program (GAP)
Shades of Delhi
As a part of the 10-10-10 activites, IYCN had announced a photography contest. Here are the winning entries and the reasons thereof given by the judge Charles, an experienced journalist.
Photocredits: Khateeb Khan
This picture shows an environmental contrast completely opposite of what one should expect in a metropolitan city like New Delhi. Instead of a concrete jungle it displays nature where should have been a parking spot. Since a shade is a reflection of an image, it also represents an opposite. The picture is thus conveys the point, strikingly.
Photocredits: Hashmeet Singh Virdi
Music Basti's performace
Our friends from Music Basti performed a rendition of Damadam Mast Kalandar
Podcast of composting project launch
As a part of the 10-10-10 Global Work Party celebrations, we launched a composting project in New Delhi and thus composting all the organic waste turning them in useful manure. The pits were dug in the Raisina Bengali School in CR park with the help of volunteers from IYCN and a bunch of other schools and organisations. Below is a audio podcast of the event recorded and edited by Charles.
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Waste Management in Delhi
The city of Delhi is growing and correspondingly does the waste produced. The Municipal waste, which is not always properly segregated at source and often ends up as mixed waste in the already overflowing landfills. The easiest and most effective way to address this issue is through composting.
Composting in very simple words is making use of the day to day waste that is produced in your household to create a product called compost. Both composting as a process and compost as a product are organic in nature. By composting you are reducing the space needed for waste disposal and transforming that waste by using it as a fertilizer at various places including your own garden (or a roof top kitchen garden to grow your own vegetables)
Camp Delhi
When the civil society got together in India.
The CoP 15 Vigil Camp in Delhi was preceeded by a 2 day music concert titled Act Now ! Climate ke Liye Bajao and a Environmental Quiz that saw participation from about 40 schools from across Delhi NCR. A day by day account of things is as follows.
The 2 weeks camp started off on 9th December with youth in action, as the Centre for Legislative Research and Advocacy (CLRA), Oxfam, CANSA and IYCN organized a door-to-door visit to 115 parliamentarians by students. These young environmentalists from Springdales School, Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj, Modern School Barakhamba, St. Colomba’s School, Sanskriti School and the Indian School quizzed the legislators on their views regarding climate control measures and calculated the lawmaker’s carbon footprints. The interaction culminated into a discussion at the Constitution Club with healthy participation from veteran parliamentarians like Najma Heptulla, Prakash Jhawaekar and Anurag Thakur.
Delhi Youth Summit on Climate Change
Delhi Youth Summit on Climate Change
Delhi youth summit held on the 28th and 29th of May, 2008 at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in the Teen Murti Bhawan in New Delhi. The first event organised by IYCN in collaboration with various civil society organisations based in Delhi. It brought 200 youth from around Delhi to discuss an issue of high social concern- "climate change”. A Delhi Youth Charter on climate, outlining the aspirations of the youth was presented to Mr. J.K. Dadoo, the Delhi Secretary of Environment. Sessions covered urban planning, water, waste, energy, transportation, health, media, buildings and youth empowerment.
World Environment Day - Workshop
WED - " Water for Life " Workshop(4th-5th June)being held at UN Conference Hall,UNDP,55 Lodhi Estate,New Delhi-3 On the World Environment Day India Alliance For Child Rights along with supporting oraginsations such as Trans Asia Alliance, Global Gandhi Forum, Joint Women’s Programme, Forum of Indian NGOs in Cooperation with the UN, Global Network of Religions for Children along with Indian Youth Climate Network would be organising a two day workshop (4th-5th June) for young voices. The idea to is to engage children and young people with the issues of the ongoing International Decade calling for world action to safeguard ‘Water for Life.’ Water is essential in the lives of all flora and fauna on earth. Water pollution is a major problem in the global context. It has been suggested that it is the leading worldwide cause of deaths and diseases, and that it accounts for the deaths of more than 14,000 people daily. Hence keeping above data in mind , both the days would involve discussions based on the current scenario of water,impacts ,other imortant concerns and what youth can do to safeguard this precious resource.