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350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

350.org is looking for two interns to join its India campaign based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. 350.org works with multiple organizations in India and with a South Asian focus, aims to raise public awareness about the climate crisis and strengthen the region’s environmental movements.

A huge number of links are present on these sites which provide access to various data and information regarding the status of rural drinking water & sanitation and related government projects.

River Tamirabarani, a perennial river in Tirunelveli district of Tamilnadu. It originates from Pothigai hills in Western Ghat and drains at Punnaikayal afer running nearly 140 km. Its catchment gets rainfall during both SWM & NEM period. Ever year [or atleast once in every 18 month] the river is in full floods. During such period nearly 5000 cusec pure water is drained out to sea.

 Its mandate is to act as a think tank and provide strategic solutions to the clients in private sector, government and others through its team with relevant experience and diversified knowledge. EPRI also provides solutions oriented towards better environment and energy planning for industries, building units and complexes. However, its major focus is on pure scientific and engineering training, research, environment system modeling, national-international knowledge management.

Video Volunteers is an international media organization empowering the voices of the world’s unheard communities. Its mission is to empower the world’s poorest citizens to right the wrongs they witness by becoming players in the global media revolution. 

Video Volunteers launched its community news service, IndiaUnheard, on 3rd of May 2010. Since then, we have trained 45 people to be community correspondents, voices of an India beyond the margins. We’re looking for passionate community members whom we can train to become the voice of their communities.

Organizer: CGNet

Venue: Rajghat, New Delhi

Description:

CGNet is pleased to announce that Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi has agreed to help organize a week long workshop for citizen journalists from Central Tribal India.

This season in the region is commonly referred to as – Barh (flood). For centuries local people have treated it as ‘a way of life’, and found ways to deal with it. Post independence, this ‘way of life’ gradually transformed into an assured annual devastation. The once self-sufficient communities in the flood plains have been relegated to being highly dependent on sources external to the village for their survival during floods.

Organizer: The Society of Earth Scientists

Venue: Lucknow

Topics:

• Science of earth’s climate system and related process
• Human impacts and natural resource management
• Sustainable agricultural productivity, energy management

The pocket book provides an overview of the oceans,their formation, characteristics, and the dynamics that determine their evolution. It also contains information on how the interested reader can pursue these topics further through books and websites.

The pocket book is divided into the following chapters:

The Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) is a sectoral management institute, which constantly endeavours to evolve knowledge useful for the managers in the area of Forest, Environment and Natural Resources Management and allied sectors.