Project Jatropha: We Need Your Help to Win the Impact Competition from iCivics

Thursday, March 14, 2013

We Need Your Help to Win the Impact Competition from iCivics

Dear Friends,

iCivics is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor ; it comprises of national leadership team of state supreme court justices, secretaries of state, and educational leaders and a network of volunteers.

They conduct Impact Competition for cash rewards of selected youth run community service projects. Currently Project Jatropha is one in ten selected projects and is at the third place. Please help us win the cash reward and join hands with us in GCY. All you need to do is register at icivics web site and click on Impact Competition

See the flow chart below for simple instructions.

This flow chart is taken from iCivics web site,

Please donate the points to Project Jatropha. You gain 500 points just for registering. All it takes is a few minutes. Please help us. The cash reward will go to our tree planting and enviornmental education program (GCY)) involving rural children in India and Haiti.
Sincerely,
Apoorva and Adarsha
P.S: Our sincere thanks to iCivics as all credits including the flow chart on this blog post goes to iCivics

3 comments:

SubbannaMarch 15, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Supreme Overlord!!!!
I registered and donated the points, I have even sent the link to people I know!
Apurva,do you know what you need to do for donations?? I saw you have a link now for direct donations but you need to tell people about that. For example, make a project plan about solar energy program and send it to like every one. Not individual donors but the companies. Multimillion dollar companies many a times will sponsor youth led projects. Have you sent to Gates foundation? All these celebrities also do donate. If you send like 100 request you might get lucky, all you need is one big sponsor. These awards will bring you fame and you need these for publicity but not fetch you huge funds/finances. Your work is out of the world but strategize properly kiddo. Good luck!
Blessings
Subbanna
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SubbannaMay 29, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Congratulations Project Jatropha Team for being featured in Google Book :Inspiring Others
http://books.google.com/books?id=iwD0h44Dyw8C&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=adarsha+shivakumar&source=bl&ots=k0f3LeqwTW&sig=fcoposlXCLlyyLGJP4yG3wyHHzw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sDGcUYnkIuPBigKlj4G4Aw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAjgo#v=onepage&q=adarsha%20shivakumar&f=false
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Project Jatropha

Greenhouse gas emissions are local, but their effects are global. There are one hundred and ninety six countries and over seven billion people on this pale blue dot. The boundaries between nations are fixed, but the air that we breathe is shared. We all suffer together, no matter who contributes how much to the greenhouse gas emissions burden. The years-2014, 2015, and 2016 have had the highest average earth surface temperature since modern record keeping began in 1880. Arctic sea ice levels are continuing their downward trend, and more extreme weather patterns such as heat waves, droughts, and downpours, are being observed across the globe. The trend over the past thirty years and the science show that anthropogenic climate change is real, and it is happening right now. There are several potential tipping points that if passed, will lead to runaway climate change that will have disastrous consequences. But no one is sure of their exact location: for all we know, the points have been passed already, or might be just ahead.

Halting anthropogenic climate change and tackling its impacts are difficult tasks. If we do not change the way we live, if we do not start decreasing emissions and transitioning away from fossil fuels, the point of no return will stare at us in the not too distant future.

The United States of America is looked upon as a world leader, but if we do not lead by example, we are destined to be followers. In developing nations, environmental protection, sustainability, preventive health care and alleviation of poverty are much more closely related than what is seen in prosperous nations. During a time when there are major differences between developed and developing nations as how to mitigate climate change, Project Jatropha aims to demonstrate the commitment of the sustainability enthusiasts in developed countries to environmental and other closely related issues that impact the developing nations.
Our mission encompasses several diverse themes of environmental protection, sustainability, preventive health care and alleviation of poverty which we see as the many threads to weave fabric of a new society of the future.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

We Need Your Help to Win the Impact Competition from iCivics

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