Resources
Traffic in the Era
of Climate Change walking, cycling, public transport need priority
Low Carbon
Lifestyles' Toolkit
by Vidyadhar Date
Publisher: Gyan Book Pvt Ltd (2010)
Senior journalist Vidyadhar Date says the reason he writes about
bicycling, streets, cars and pedestrians etc. is that 'it is on streets that
injustice, economic and social inequality, is most visible. The trouble is we
are so used to it that we have taken it for granted'. He calls for a humane,
people-friendly, environment friendly shift in favour of public transport.
The 366-page book is quite wide ranging in its scope. The book is about
the politics, economics and
sociology of the motor car, transport in general, the craze for speed,
the complete lack of democracy on roads, the loss of public spaces caused by
the motor car. It deals with street culture, streetscape, the relationship between
architecture, transport, city planning, people and so on. The book also talks
about how resistance is slowly growing to the dominance of the car. The
pedestrian is at the centre of the book.
While the approach is quite serious, Mr Date has enlivened the
book with numerous examples from every
day life, history, literature, cinema, theatre, politics and so
on. As a student of literature and culture, and
theatre critic for several years for the Times of India, Mr Date
is able to make interesting connections. A very wide array of renowned
philosophers and poets and historians and film directors, playwrights share the
space with traffic, transport and urban planners.
Purchase online from Flipkart:
http://tinyurl.com/traffic-era-climate-change
Low
Carbon Lifestyles Toolkit
Focuses on efficient use of electricity, transportation, LPG,
water, organic waste and paper. The kit contains:
1 A message booklet on key low carbon practices
2 A CD which has the following:
•
Excel sheets containing data and calculations on impacts of human
actions leading to mitigation
of carbon emissions and choices available
•
A
set of power point presentations on:
•
Climate
Change-basics, impacts on India etc.
•
Low
Carbon lifestyles in offices
•
Low
Carbon lifestyles in homes
•
Low
Carbon lifestyles in school
•
A
street play on Climate Change
This
kit has been prepared with support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF)/
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Small Grants Program (SGP) through a project
'Creating Green Citizens to link with the project titled Low Carbon Campaign
for the Commonwealth Games 2010, New Delhi'.
For
more information contact:
Prabhjot
Sodhi
(prabhjot.sodhi@ceeindia.org)
or
Chetali
Kapoor
(chetali.kapoor@ceeindia.org)
Centre
for Environment Education
(CEE),
C-40, Ground Floor, South
Extension-,
Part II, New Delhi
110049;
Ph: 011-26262878/81
The
kit content can be downloaded from:
http://www.greenteacher.org/?page_id=251
Poster Set on
Sustainable Transportation from SUM Net India
A
set of nine illustrated posters from the Sustainable Urban Mobility Network
India, on Footpaths, Cycle Tracks, Public Transport, Traffic Demand Management
and more. Each poster quotes relevant references from the National Urban
Transportation Policy, Govt of India.
Download A 4 size
version from
http://tinyurl.com/SUM-Net-Posters
or mail to sanskriti.menon@ceeindia.org for a CD with high-resolution posters
for printing in A 0 (23 inch by 36 inch) size, with your full postal address, contact
details and brief information on how you plan to use the poster set.
Relevant links on
Urban Transport
- Ministry of Urban Development : http://urbanindia.nic.in/
- Institute of Urban Transport India: http://www.iutindia.org/
- Sustrans: http://www.sustrans.org.uk/
- Sustainable Urban Transport Project: http://www.sutp.org/
- The Streets of India: http://indiastreets.wordpress.com/
- World Streets: http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/
- Institute for Transportation and Development Policy: http://www.itdp.org/
- Embarq - The WRI Center for Sustainable Transportation: http://www.embarq.org/
- Street Films: http://www.streetfilms.org/
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