[Urbanstudy] Climate Crisis - launch of Bangalore Platform

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Dear  friend,

We wish to invite you for a meeting to launch the  Bangalore Platform.

The Meeting will take place at
The Centre for Internet and Society
No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers
14, Cunningham Road, 
Bangalore - 560052
Phone: 4092 6283

on
Saturday, April 4, 2009
4.30 pm - 7.00 pm

The agenda for the meeting will be:
Brief introduction on the need for such platforms and the history of
these platforms-Sagar Dhara
Discussion on the setting up of the Bangalore Platform

Objective of the platform: The Bangalore Platform will help concerned
individuals to collectively deepen their understanding of implications
of the looming  worldwide energy  crisis of unprecedented proportions,
the  unsustainable overuse of natural capital, and climate change; and
to discuss possible roadmaps  to tackle these issues (a brief note is
attached). Given this objective, a very wide  variety of subjects fall
within the purview of  the platform-science and technology, ethics,
epistemology, economics, politics, socio-biology, etc.


Similar work done/planned in other cities: Similar platforms have been
set up earlier in  Hyderabad, Delhi and Udupi-Mangalore and the  Kolkata
one is at an incipient stage. The  Hyderabad platform participants have
written  papers on negative entropy and society,  implications of the
energy crisis, the road  ahead for human society, lineages of modern
philosophy, post-industrial capitalism, etc. Two symposia on climate
change have been  held in Mumbai and Hyderabad in Dec 07 and Mar  08.
The Delhi and Hyderabad Platforms have  jointly published a book, "The
roots of climate  change". Another book on related subjects  authored by
a member of the Hyderabad Platform has just been published and another
is to be  published in a couple of months, and a third is  being
written. Work on preparing an indigenous  version of a carbon footprint
calculator and a  vulnerability mapping tool have just been begun  in
Hyderabad. The Delhi Platform, in  association with several
organizations from all over India, plans to hold a serious of national
and regional consultations on climate change and its impacts. The
principal topics for discussion are:
a) developing a platform for  discussing perspectives,
b) developing a  programme for intervention at inter-governmental meets,
with the union and state governments, and  at civil society and
individual levels.


Expected outcome in Bangalore: Given Bangalore's rich human capital, we
expect the Bangalore Platform to  produce high quality work-theoretical
and  programmatic-and join hands with similar platforms in India and
worldwide to impact  public policy on major issues the world faces in
transiting towards an equitable post-carbon society, and the steps-big
and small, at  individual and collective levels-that are required to get
there.


Organization structure of other platforms: The  other platforms have no
formal membership  criteria, and anyone may participate in them by
invitation. They are unregistered and unfunded.


In peace and solidarity,

Walter Mendoza                  Sagar Dhara

RSVP: by 17th March
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