Turner Garden pictures from Sue

Progress is being made.  Funds are needed for second phase if anyone is interested in helping out.  They are hoping for a wind turbine among other things.  Slide show done at Woodstock, not by me.    Click HERE to see the photos I received from Woodstock, which are posted on our class Picasa Website.

Sue

Our Trip to India and Nepal

We had a great two-week tour of the major sights of North India and Kathmandu. I have edited the photos into collages so that there are fewer items for people with short attention spans....not you, of course. Please enjoy them at full screen (click the title above to view the slides in Picasa).
Joy

Recent Photo of my son and Gil Austin

My son recently entered the US Foreign Service and his father, Gil Austin from our class, and I were there. Here is a photo of father and son...many of you have not seen Gil since graduation and I thought you might be interested. As you can see, Nathaniel, our son, looks just like him! Nathaniel is now in Kazakhstan.

(Posted by Barb)

Music to Start Your Day

Heart warming story and a wonderful voice of Ani Choying Drolma ; a Nepali/Tibetan “Sound of Music” story.  Click here to see the NPR story and listen to a sound track.

David Brooks of the NYT on the “New Humanism”

 

Click here to read another excellent item from today’s NYT by David Brooks.  Could it be that Obama had this all right during the campaign and has since relied too heavily on intellectual reason alone?

I think Woodstock served us all very well with this humanism bit.

Monetizing Religious Worship

 

Something is very wrong with this.  What’s worse is that the Pashupati Area Development Trust was established with help and support from the UN.

http://www.speroforum.com/a/49753/Nepal---Poor-Hindu-protest-ten-euro-to-pay-homage-to-Shiva

(Posted by Hank)

Green Award

(edited January 27, 20011) from Krishna Kutty, Head of Outdoor Education and Environmental Studies at the Hanifl Centre:

 The Hanifl Centre has been chosen for this year's Green Award, given by the CII's Uttarakhand office. (Confederation of Indian Industries).

For the past 5 years, the CII (Uttarakhand) has been presenting the Green Award to a person or group that has done most in Uttarakhand for the environment. The past awardees have been as follows:

2006 – Shri Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani – Award presented by Sh N D Tiwari, the then Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

2007 – 127 Infantry Battalion (TA) Ecological – Eco Task Force – Award presented by HE Shri Sudarshan Agarwal, the then Governor of Uttarakhand

2008 – Shri Jagat Singh Chaudhary (Junglee) – Award presented by Ms Vibha Puri Das, the then Principal Secretary & FRDC, Government of Uttarakhand

2009 – Shri Kalyan Singh Rawat – Award presented by Mr Salil Singhal, the then Chairman, CII Northern Region

2010 – Dr Harshwanti Bisht – Award presented by HE Smt Margaret Alva, Governor of Uttarakhand

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To:

 Mr Laurenson,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        11 February, 2011 

CII Green Award 

This is the sixth award we are presenting and it is the first time a school has won it. Congratulations.

The function is scheduled for Sunday, the sixth of March in the afternoon and the Governor of Uttarakhand is expected to present it. The venue will be Haridwar where our Industrial Expo is going to be held.

From:

D N Mazumdar

Advisor - Environment

Isn't this great!!!

Sue