Showing posts with label Environmental Protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environmental Protection. Show all posts

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Bob Geldof, T. Anand Khrisnan, et al are missed

Live Aid Concert 1985
Bob Geldof organized USA for Africa Live Aid Rock Concert with billionaire T. Anand Khrisnan of Malaysia


We Are The World

The signature 1985 album of the USA for Africa Concert for charity famine relief in Ethiopia that raised US$254,000,000 for the purpose.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Reply to Bangladesh Letter

Nov. 10, 2009

Hon. Monowar Hossain Akhand
Deputy Secretary
Ministry of Home Affairs, Bangladesh.

Dear Sir:

We are happy to receive your letter dated today about your interest to join the 2010 conference we are organizing.

We will send you further details immediately as soon as the guidelines are completed.

Thank you for your concern and more power to you!



Head, Secretariat
HMES 2010


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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:01:05 -0800
From: monowarakhand@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit.


Dear Sir,

I am Monowar Hossain Akhand, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt of Bangladesh, responsible for disaster preparedness program in Bangladesh. I am interested to attend your upcoming 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit, Eco Summit, 08-15 April 2010.

I am also interested to share our disaster management Bangaldesh experience in your summit, with power point presentation. If you accept my request, I will send detail information with your registration form. Then I will take preparation for travel.

In that case, is there any possibility to provide me air ticket and hotel accommodation as financial support, it would very much helpful for me.

Waiting for your reply.

Best regards,



Monowar Hossain Akhand
Deputy Secretary
Ministry of Home Affairs, Bangladesh.
E-mail: monowarakhand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Saturday, October 31, 2009

RRM Letter to UN Sec Gen

October 31, 2009

HIS EXCELLENCY
BAN KI-MOON
Secretary General
United Nations

Dear Mr. Secretary General:

Greetings!

Every 5th of June since 1972 is commemorated by the United Nations as the World Environment Day.

In 2010-2011, scientists report that there will be a solar maximum that has not occurred since fifty years ago as reported in this article from
Science@NASA:
a (solar) storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.

Read more about it here:

This and other factors will result in major disasters during the period in question. Our group of professionals advocating environment protection and disaster damage diminution respectfully request the United Nations to support our effort to organize a Geo Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in 2010 and we are determined that this gathering be convened in Manila, Philippines.

In this connection, may we respectfully request the following:

1. United Nations and its concerned departments participate in the Summit and help in organizing said event
2. The Year 2010 be declared as the International Geo Hazard Mapping Year
3. The month of April 2010 be declared as the International Geo Hazard Mapping Month; and finally,
4. The date of April 17, 2010 be declared as the first World Hazards Information Dissemination Day.

That these declarations be formally announced in Manila prior to the Summit.

Thank you ever so much! Mabuhay!!!

Respectfully yours,



Organizers HMES 2010

Friday, October 30, 2009

Psycho-Social Issues in Disaster Risk Mitigation

During a small group (round table) meeting in Quezon City at the residence of poet and writer Rolly Carbonell, Author, poet,on forthcoming hazards from climate change and the solar super storm in 2012-2013, everyone shared their their ideas on various psycho-social issues that need to be considered about this event in the near future.


Initially, the group discussed the impact of the tsunami in Thailand and Indonesia, Bangladesh et al, Hurricane Katrina in the US, Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines.


The Convenor of the conference, Sen. Edgar U. Ilarde, said that there will even be bigger catastrophes come 2012 and 2013, when the phenomenon of the solar climax or solar maximum takes place. This will be in the form of a magnetic storm or a solar super storm that has devastating effects on both humans and more potently upon satellites, electronics, communications and many other devices powered by electricity.


On the other hand, Author, poet, philosopher George Sison, said:


The way we approach disaster, those in the past and especially those that are forthcoming, it almost looks like we brought these things upon ourselves.


George was saying that as if by mute agreement, we all collectively invoke disaster and will calamities to wreak damage upon ourselves and loved ones. Our conventional conscious acts and thinking either make or help make storms and earthquakes to happen. This is a dangerous thing to do. Psychically inviting peril and death.


George was also saying that we, as a people that are called Filipinos, are the only ethnic group that apparently suffer from negative karmic vibrations that in selected places of the world, once identified as Filipinos, we are discriminated against. In George's experience, he says he was extremely humiliated in an airport when someone asked who were from the Philippines and segregated all those that raised their hands from the rest and told to occupy a corner so as to be processed longer than the rest of the travelers.


Such negative karma in a collective, George says, if powerful enough can also be contributory to events that happen in the environment. Together with the negative psychic energy of many others in the rest of the planet, we could even trigger bigger, much more tremendously powerful calamities all around the world.


More about this post here.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Letter from Nepal

2010 Hazard mapping and environmental summit (HMES), Eco Summit 2010 to be held in the Philippines (Manila) (8-15 April 2010)‏

From: Meen Poudyal Chhetri (dr_mbpchhetri@xxxxxx)
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:13:50 AM
To: saferecover@msn.com; onefestival@live.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am from Nepal. This is regarding my great interest to participate in the 2010 Hazard mapping and environmental summit (HMES), Eco Summit 2010 to be held in the Philippines (Manila) (8-15 April 2010).

As defined by the World Bank, I am from a very low income and least developed country - Nepal, neither me nor my organization have resources to attend theconference. I would, therefore, like to request you to kindly let me know, if there is any possibility of funding from your organization for my participation. If I will be given a chance to attend the conference that will be an asset and excellent opportunity for me and my organization. I can contribute by presenting a paper in theconference.

I look forward to hear from you soon in positive vein.

With very kind regards,

Sincerely yours,

Meen B. Poudyal Chhetri, PhD
General Secretary
Nepal Center for Disaster Management (NCDM)
Lalitpur, Nepal