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| Mrs. Amala Akkineni |
| Founder Blue Cross of Hyderabad , Animal Activist |
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Amala Akkineni spoke on Environment Management, Global Warming and Climate Change. And told youth how they could contribute reducing the carbon footprint. Some of the measures she suggested include going vegetarian, car pooling, planting saplings, rain water harvesting, etc. as some measure to help reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and avert climate catastrophe.
Standby and low power mode use by computers and consumer electronic devices used in houses consume about 500 kWh per year per household. Adding further she informed that in the year 2004, 31% of the total Carbon Dioxide emissions were from the buildings sector where electricity is used for lighting and air conditioning and typically fossil fuel (such as coal, petrol, diesel, natural gas, etc.) is used for building heat. Each Kilo Volt of electricity generated from coal requires 3 Kilo Volts of thermal energy, and results in the release of 1 kg of CO2 to the atmosphere. |
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| Hence, the future building designs and retrofits must maximize the use of solar daylight harvesting systems and the use of photoelectric sensors to dim lights when daylight is available. Energy used by computers and consumer electronic items that are perpetually on or in standby mode waste significant amounts of electrical energy. About 40% of the energy used in the residential sector is consumed by these and other household appliances. |
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| From animal welfare, now Amala Akkineni is now spearheading a moment against Global Warming. She has even attended workshops, seminars in US on the subject and would like to take up this cause to greater heights in Andhra Pradesh in association with former US Vice President, then star of 'An Inconvenient Truth', now Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore who found ways to focus the world's attention on climate change. |
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| © 2009. Youth Assembly India. |
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