24th october 2009 -Climate action day

The event started with a BIG bang! With great difficulty a '350' banner of enormous proportions was hoisted above the heads of over 30 enthusiastic and
smiling organizers of the event at the Charminar (Hyderabad's iconic place).
Over 100 students from different schools formed a 350 in front of the huge banner.
The special guests of the event were the former
environment minister and animal rights champion and former actress Amala Akineni.

Several media were present and TV coverage of the event was impressive. Local and state TV news channels are carrying reports of the
event even as this is being typed.
The school children then took a rally by walking around the Charminar area to spread awareness and the message.
The next was on Necklace road, where we put up a road side art gallery and floating paintings in the lake which showed the earth at 350 and 390! We had a press meet here where the media had a one-on-one
 talk with all the volunteers!

 HOW CUTE !! look at this tot...how innocently hez holding this tiny banner..! you can see my  friend Parimala Vaishnavi here in this photograph who has immense love for animals.. 

> "we reached tank bund at 12 noon where the majectic IYCN's 350 banner was embraced... there was an exhibition of  Random paintings of movie stars, sports persons and few other celebrities by Artist Mr. Naresh , who is an Aeronautical engineering student from the college IARE,dundigal. His paintings were pretty catchy... The main intention behind setting up a gallery on the road side was only to attract the crowd. The people who came there to check out the paintings would definitely en quire about the reason behind the event...that is how we could explain them about 350 / climate action day and its importance.

   The crowd there helped Naresh by filling colours to the paintings ...and later we made them float on water.......... shape of Indian map was revealed , which was created by the handprints of different people.

Students from diff colleges and schools participated in this event .... There was an agreeable media support for this event...Several TV channel representatives came up with their kits to capture these moments .. We spoke to few of em....

Childern were busy posing with the paintings...and few were seen holding the cloth banner of 350. Print media was also covering this event..... the news paper next day was filled with IYCN's climate action day's photographs... the event also got telecasted in many news channels "




At around the same time my friends from other colleges had done a 350 formation with green caps and 390 with red caps, followed by a cycle rally across the city. They then joined us at the press meet.
At 3:50 PM sharp we opened a huge INDIA painting made by our hand prints and 350 in the center. After all the media talks we decided to a little ground level impact! We did a flash mob skit and a sleeping 350 formation. In the skit, we demonstrated with miming how the earth was slowly suffocating with all the pollution and trash that is being strewn all over. The mimes then showed where we make mistakes and endanger our planet - they also followed up with a solution for each problem. For example, when we talked about huge power consumptions, we also suggested ways of reducing our hunger for power like turning off appliances when we don't need them. When there is need for light, we asked our audience to use CFL lamps.

This was followed by a symbolic rock-climbing where we placed '390 ppm' in the bottom and 350ppm at the top of the challenging rock face to show that it is hard work to get to 350 but that's the golden number!

We wrapped a tiring yet fun-filled day of action & awareness with holding a 350 banner in front of the Buddha statue in the middle of the Hussain Sagar Lake.