Bangalore Urban and Rural District

CDD invites applications for Project Engineers and Documentation Specialist , Bangalore - Apply by March 17, 2012
Posted on 09 Mar, 2012 09:32 AM

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CDD

Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society, an NGO involved in provision of cost effective and environmentally sound Decentralised Basic Needs Services (DBNS) for improved sanitation, is searching for Project Engineers and Documentation Specialist for its office in Bangalore.

Course on Sustainable Urban Futures by IIHS, Bangalore - Apply by March 14, 2012
Posted on 08 Mar, 2012 10:08 AM

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The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. IIHS is India’s first prospective independently funded and managed national university for Innovation that focuses on its ongoing urban and development transformation. It is a first-of-its-kind, practice and innovation-oriented knowledge institution that seeks to bridge the conventional excellence, scale and inclusion divide.

Description:
It is for a period of 2 days, in Bangalore. It will start at 9:00 am on 23rd Mar 2012 and end at 7:00 pm on 24th Mar 2012. We would recommend that you be in Bangalore on the night of 22nd March 2012.

The GreenKarbon inter-college debate, St. Joseph's College v/s Mount Carmel College, March 9, 2012, Bangalore
Posted on 08 Mar, 2012 09:34 AM

Organizer: Sanctuary Asia

Venue: St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science,
            St. Xaviers Auditorium,
            Bangalore

Photo exhibition on open wells and groundwater, Goethe-Institut, March 22, 2012, Bangalore
Posted on 05 Mar, 2012 12:05 PM

Organizer: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore,
            716 CMH Road,
            Indiranagar 1st Stage,
            Bangalore 560 038

Gothe Institut

The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, offers language courses, organises cultural events and has a Library. We determine our main areas of interest in consultation with our Indian cooperation partners from the fields of art, science and media, from NGOs and select companies, with whom we jointly develop appropriate programmes and projects. Our activities range from film screenings, exhibitions, theatre performances and concerts to workshops and conferences particularly on innovative topics such as video and media art.

Utilisation of human urine as a source of nutrients for banana and maize cultivation - A compilation of research papers
These papers describe the findings of experiments conducted in the fields in Nagasandra village, Doddaballapura Tq, Bangalore district for one year that studied the usefulness and impact of anthropogenic liquid waste (human urine) as a source of plant nutrient for banana and maize cultivation and evaluated the impact of the use of human urine on crop quality and yield. Posted on 01 Mar, 2012 02:24 PM

Source separated anthropogenic liquid waste (Human urine) - A potential plant nutrient for banana cultivation

Once upon a lake: A report on the current status of the lakes of Mahadevpura constituency, Bengaluru with recommendations for restoration
Lakes of Mahadevpura constituency, Bengaluru- current status, changes in distribution and recommendations for restoration' by Harini Nagendra, Ramesh Sivaram, and S Subramanya presents the current status of the lake and canal system in Bengaluru’s Mahadevpura constituency, with details of individual lakes as well as recommendations for the restoration of these lakes as well as the entire system. This report has been shared with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, under which the management of these lakes is consolidated, to inform planning at a constituency and ward level. Posted on 23 Feb, 2012 05:55 PM


Map of the lakes in Bengaluru, with information about their status

Map of the lakes in Bengaluru, source: ATREE

Challenges for achieving conservation and development - A presentation by Elinor Ostrom at the Khoshoo memorial lecture, ATREE
The 2012 Khoshoo Memorial Lecture was delivered by 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Dr Elinor Ostrom. In this presentation, she explains the need for a framework to assess complex socio-ecological systems. Posted on 22 Feb, 2012 06:52 PM

Portrait of Dr.Ostrom

CDD invites applications for Training on Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System, Bangalore – Apply by March 20, 2012
Posted on 13 Feb, 2012 08:25 AM

CDD

Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society, a not-for-profit organisation working in the field of decentralised basic need services across India.

Water quality monitoring of lakes in and around Bangalore city
This report by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) both in Kannada and English highlights the deteriorating condition of the lakes in and around Bangalore city. Posted on 07 Feb, 2012 03:05 PM

It describes the efforts undertaken by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board to launch a programme to monitor the water quality of some of the lakes in Bangalore so as to focus the attention of concerned governmental organisations to take up remedial measures to safe guard the water bodies of the "Garden City". 

The sources of pollution in lakes are mainly identified as:

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