Adaptation Action Now!

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About Adaptation Action Now!

CONTRIBUTIONS INVITED FOR PHOTO EXHIBITION

We are an NGO called SEEDS INDIA (www.seedsindia.org) and we work in the field of sustainable development with a focus on disaster management. As part of our work, we have started a new initiative called Adaptation Action Now!, which is a call to look at the plight of people whose lives are already being devastated by effects of climate change. As part of this campaign we are organising a slew of activities in Delhi on 5th and 6th of December which is the weekend before the world leaders meet in Copenhagen for the next round of negotiations on climate change.

The theme for the event this year is Climate Change and Himalayas. One of the things we have planned is a photo exhibition portraying the effects of climate change on Himalayas and Himalayan communities. We are looking at photographs or photo essays which show the impacts and changes which climate change has brought into the lives of people living in Himalayas.

We plan to exhibit these photographs at DLF promenade Vasant Vihar (tentative) on 5th and 6th Dec. We will bear the cost of printing the photographs, the photographs remain your intellectual property and SEEDS will have no right to further use them without your permission, except the hard prints used for the exhibition might be displayed later at seeds office.

Below is an indicative list of themes under which we are looking for photographs

•Effects on Agriculture in Himalayas: Destroyed crops, failed crops

•Livestock: lack of food resources due to destroying/ drying of pastures

•Impact on water resources: Flash floods, droughts, Receding glaciers, GLOF: glacier lake overflow

•Impact of tourism: Waste Management, Ill effects of modern amenities/ technologies for luxury.

•Adaptation Activities: Bio Gas plants, new building technologies in use, Check dams for rivers, Use of Bamboo for construction etc.

•Effects on Humans: Loss of livelihood, malnutrition etc.


You can also send us photographs which you feel fit the broad area of climate change in Himalayas but not in the themes mentioned above.

Also if accompanying your photographs you can send us a couple of lines giving your perspective on the photograph and your thinking behind taking the shot. Things for us would become a lot clearer and easier.

The last date for sending the photographs is 20th November, 2009 12:00 noon. Please sent us low resolution images and we will be asking you for hi-resolution image once your photograph is short listed, which will be between 20 -23 November.

You can join our campaign and post your photographs by joining this flickr group.


To know more about the campaign and be a part of it join our facebook group “SEEDS India's Youth Campaign for Climate Change” www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=115451529080&...