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July 2009
FIGHT POVERTY: EDUCATE GIRLS 11 July 2009: UN World Population Day
This year's theme is a chance to build awareness of the importance of educating girls to a wide range of development issues, including poverty, human rights and gender equality. Investments in education and health for women and girls have been linked to increases in productivity, agricultural yields, and national income. Access more information at the UNFPA website http://www.unfpa.org/wpd
Population Education: Resources
Population and Consumption Activity on Green Teacher draws the attention of students to the role of over population and over consumption on the environment
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, using equal area cartograms where territories are re-sized on each map according to a particular variable. For example, one set shows a map with territories in proportion to their land area and another map showing territories in proportion to their population. The site has maps on variables other than Population as well. See http://www.worldmapper.org/
Gapminder has videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics. See http://www.gapminder.org/
Everything About Population pages from the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques include animations, documents and fact sheets about population issues. See www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/
EE Events for Teachers Coming Up
9-11 July 2009, Bangalore
For teachers of ICSE, CBSE and SSLC schools, organized by Environment Support Group; the workshop will demonstrate the use of the outdoors to introduce, strengthen, and emphasize concepts of the environmental education curriculum. Methods will include classroom sessions, games and field studies.
28 July 2009, Hyderabad
The TREE Foundation is organizing a half a day International eco-conference to facilitate teachers to ensure environmentally responsible students. The conference is aimed at training the teachers to start eco-groups at their respective educational institution. These groups will focus on an all round the year eco-projects.
4th South Asia Renewable Energy Conference 2009
29th July 2009, New Delhi
The Conference aims to promote renewable energy enterprise development by removing barriers that impede Renewable Energy use. Participants will be able to raise issues, exchange information, share experiences and best practices. Participation is expected from experts, investors and other stakeholders for promoting renewable energy in our region at a large scale. Organized by ASSOCHAM with support from the Government of India Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, ACME, TERI, CEE and GTZ and other partners. For more details see http://www.assocham.org/4asia/
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