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Climate change, global warming, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, water pollution, air pollution, etc. have today become usual topics of discussion in today’s world. It has become increasingly clear that protection of the environment should not only be the concern of an environmentalist but has to be a top priority for everyone, especially students who are capable of efficiently carrying the message of environmental protection forward.
As part of the Climate EduXchange, an initiative of TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) and Dell Computers, an Environmental Radio Workshop was organized from 23rd to 25th February 2010 for the students of Bangalore and Chennai at the Southern Regional Centre of TERI located in Bangalore. Climate EduXchange provides a web-based platform to reach out to students, teachers and the community on the key issue of climate change.
Communication is the key word, and the idea of a Radio Workshop was to help students develop communication skills essential for spreading awareness on environment with a special focus on climate change. The Environmental Radio Workshop aimed to engage the students in a non-formal medium of communication and use activity based learning to discuss climate change issues.
All the student participants and teachers were welcomed by Ms Avanti Roy Basu of TERI. Following a brief round of introduction by participants, the outlines and activities of Project Climate EduXchange were discussed. Ms Haripriya Madhavan and Ms K N Shruti were the resource persons for the workshop. Both are International Climate Champions - winners of a youth oriented programme of the British Council and TERI that aims to inspire young people and work with them towards spreading the word on climate change and its effects.
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