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"This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" by Naomi Klein.

Extract:

"Over the course of the 1970s, there were 660 reported disasters around the world, including droughts, floods, extreme temperature events, wildfires, and storms. In the 2000s, there were 3,322—a fivefold boost."

Imagine by 2020?

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Posted @withrepost • @bombaygreenway Local neighbourhoods matter to children; satisfying their basic needs, supporting their growing independence and contributing to their sense of self and well-being We are working with @lypmumbai @littlebigcity.in and the local community Mount Mary Kane Road ALM and Dr.Peter Dias ALM to activate the new reclaimed public space at #StStephensSteps , opposite St.Stephen's Church at Mount Mary. #FestivalatTheSteps is a celebration of the transformation of a garbage dump into a multi-use public space for arts and community life. Join us for the next 4 weekends, there are all kinds of magic coming your way! Thank you to the wonderful collaborators who have come on board for this community project! @capoeiramumbai @lilyogis_sabz @natalwalla @tristanknelange @beekaybeewrites @deepmalika_kathak_institute @wag.tales @kokomobombay @kangatrainingindia @alishasadikot @thesmartcommute @nyelakapadia @enjoyaball_khar_bandra @maulshreeandanvi @kaulgeetanjali @spinayarnindia @realmsofdance @abrahamjohnarchitects @joybimalroy @atelierhabib @zakaria_asif (at Mumbai, Maharashtra) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6IGg_NBwNt/?igshid=1dhlf4gxhhkhc

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The vision of LYPMumbai is that one day, every Mumbaikar will have unrestricted access to abundant, welcoming and user-friendly public open spaces. We aim to accomplish this vision by catalysing community collaboration through stewardship, advocacy and creative use of public open spaces. Anca Abraham and Tina Nandi initiated LYPMumbai in November 2018. They are a Landscape/Interior Designer-Photographer duo and young parents to toddlers. As parents to young children in the concrete jungle that is Mumbai, they have become avid users of their local parks for the sanity of their children and their own mental health! Like many other parents, we have often grumbled to each other about the  crumbling infrastructure of many of Mumbai’s parks, the constant threat of encroachment of public land/spaces, the restricted timings and the long list of obsolete and sometimes unjustifiable rules and regulations. We wanted to find a way to turn this private grumbling into public  and joyful sound to encourage a sense of community and stewardship of our local parks to push for change.

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To loiter is simply to be in one place. Loitering happens when people start to find that suspicious , to think one doesnt belong in that place, environment...

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If Paris did it, why not Mumbai

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There was a time, in the 1950s and 60s, when cyclists were under severe threat of being expelled from Dutch cities by the growing number of cars. Only thanks to fierce activism and a number of decisive events would Amsterdam succeed in becoming what it is, unquestionably, now: the bicycle capital of the world.

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Short bursts of a screeching sound filled the air. It wasn’t a bird, it was a man with a whistle. And as he blew into it, everyone in the park slowly began to make his or her way out. It was 10 am, and in Bengaluru – the capital of Karnataka – that’s when many neighbourhood parks close, re-opening only after 5 pm, even on a Saturday

We all have lived this scene in Mumbai, though BMC promised to open parks betweek 6am and 9 pm with only 3 hours off from 12pm to 3pm... Same goes with keep off the grass rules in many park such as Bajaj. This is what we are fighting for : a real public open space

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The research shows head-to-toe harm, from heart and lung disease to diabetes and dementia, and from liver problems and bladder cancer to brittle bones and damaged skin. Fertility, foetuses and children are also affected by toxic air, the review found.

Air pollution is a “public health emergency”, according to the World Health Organization, with more than 90% of the global population enduring toxic outdoor air. New analysis indicates 8.8m early deaths each year – double earlier estimates – making air pollution a bigger killer than tobacco smoking.

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Is this a proper way to dispose waste??

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"Forests, wildlife, water bodies, rivers, clean air and coastal zones are precious natural resources that belong to the people and we need to protect them"

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"Mumbai’s existing roads are not equipped to handle the traffic that its new highways, freeways and sea links will spew out.” But even if they were, there is enough evidence to prove that more roads, low parking and no congestion costs only incentivise car ownership and increase traffic, not reduce it.

The second concern with these projects is a lack of holistic urban planning. Desai points out that “the idea of building special economic zones and business districts in the city’s suburbs was to develop other parts of the cities”, then why should more roads lead to South Mumbai?

There is already an ongoing 172-km metro project which aims to connect the entire city. The coastal road, therefore, is wasteful because the shoddy urban planning has resulted in a situation where, Roshni Udyavar Yehuda, an architect who specialises in environmental design, says, “two ongoing projects—the metro and the coastal road—will compete with each other”.

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Greater London, home to nine million inhabitants, has 9,300 double-decker city buses, the equivalent of around 15,000 standard-sized buses. Shenzhen, a megacity of 12 million residents, has 16,000 standard-sized buses.

Bengaluru, a city of similar size, has a mere 6,600. And Bengaluru is the only one that meets the government’s benchmark of 600 buses per million inhabitants. Chennai is next but falls well short with less than 400 buses per million. The figure drops precipitously for Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune—the only cities with public fleets of more than a thousand.