Here’re a few media reports on Yesterday’s Lightsout campaign
The Hindu writes:
CHENNAI: As the lights went out at 10 p.m. on Sunday night, the glow of awareness spread around. The theme was the fight against global warming, and darkness was used as a means to spread light.
Participating in an event at Anna University organised by Exnora International to mark the ‘5 tens Lights Out campaign’ here on Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister M.K.Stalin asked the youth to understand the consequences of global warming and to make choices that “will benefit the world”.
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu was acting swiftly to combat the impacts that climate change, claimed Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin.
Speaking at the launch of the ‘Five Tens Lights Out’ campaign organised by Exnora international here on Sunday, Stalin said that the pollution control board and the forest department were acting in tandem to protect the State from the adverse impacts of climate change.
The earth is facing two catastrophic dangers today. Global Warming and climate change are the independent and an effect of over exploitation and over usage of resources by humans.
To address the issues the whole world is closely monitoring “A Campaign To Arrest Global Warming” was initiated by ‘ExNoRa International’. An elaborate entertainment and awareness was organized at Anna University on 10.10.2010 to mark the ‘5 tens Lights Out campaign’. Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin asked the youth to understand the consequences of global warming and to make choices that “will benefit the world”.
Mayor M. Subramanian, Anna University Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar and ExNoRa International founder M. B. Nirmal are some of the speakers who delivered a thought provoking speech to the people gathered to support the social cause. The excerpts of their speech focused on – the month long campaign has finally reached a day where we can celebrate the success of the initiative. By now people have sensed the universal concern of global warming. Hope people will also appreciate the proactive government role. Now the onus of saving the planet is with the people to react. Banning incandescent bulbs at government offices was a good way to start and this would spread across all people from different walks.
Watch this video to understand the notion behind the campaign
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Message From Mannar Jawahar
Mannar Jawahar the Vice-Chancellor of Anna University expressed that ‘Countries have to take care of their citizen’s welfare; they neither have time nor the patience to turndown their carbon emissions. Anna University is planning to plant 1,000 more saplings of trees on its campus in support of the campaign against global warming’
Anna varsity students will involve in promoting the drive among college and school students. People around the world may have been talking of global warming for decades. In Tamil Nadu, we started paying attention to it only after 2004 tsunami
It’s a symbol of our solidarity in the fight against “Global Warming”
All are welcome to an evening of entertainment and awareness. Turn up in large numbers to support the cause. Venue Anna University, Time & date 08.00 p.m. 10th October 2010 entry is on first come first basis
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