Express mentions this blog!

In the new avtar of the Indian Express, an international blog is mentioned on the first page and a city based blog finds place on page 2.
The Chennai edition picks up nice city-blogs and I follow the list closely.
It was a pleasant surprise that the New Indian Express picked up a post from this blog for its page 2 top band for today!
Here it is.
Click on the image to see the bigger picture!
I would have been happier if they had picked up a latest post from the blog instead of a year-old entry!

The Green Olympiad - Last date to register Aug. 14

The Green Olympiad conducted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in association with TERI and Hero Honda is back this year.

The Olympiad is open to children studying in classes 8 to 10.
The toppers of this Olympiad get to participate in a 13 episode environment quiz on Doordarshan - TerraQuiz.

The application for this Olympiad is to be sent through the school, before Aug. 14, 2008.
If your school has not yet told you about this, ask your Science teacher now!

For more details and to know how to participate go to the website - http://www.teriin.org/olympiad/

Paintings of a special child

Suvedha, a special child holds her solo painting exhibition at the Vinnyasa Art Gallery in CIT Colony, Mylapore.
The speech and hearing impaired girl, Suvedha is currently a student of class 12 at the Little Flower convent. This is the second solo exhibition of this talented artist motivated and supported by another artiste Dr. S. Sundar, a Carnatic vocalist based in Chennai.
The local community at Perungudi encouraged this girl to hold the exhibition two years ago.
Read the report on the exhibition held at Perungudi here.

Are you on YOCee?

Hey, do you follow www.yocee.in?

If you are not in the mailing list, you would be missing the cute, four page newsletter from the website. But not anymore!
We would be posting the e-edition online.

Here is the first of the newsletter we mailed to those who signed up with the website www.yocee.in

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Read this document on Scribd: yocee newsletter

More will follow. Do check back!

Walk around the trees - June 15

Do you love the green environment in your area? Then you should be in one of the 'tree walks' conducted in the city.

Nizhal, an organisation which promotes tree culture in urban areas conducts 'tree walks' in the parks and colonies that have a variety of trees. During the summer vacation, Nizhal had conducted a few walks and a few workshops creating boards for each tree with info about the species.

Join them this week end on June 15, for a walk around CIT Colony in Mylapore. A botanist will explain the uniqueness of each tree and give you interesting facts about the varieties.

The walk will be held between 7 am and 8.15 am.

Call Nizhal at phone no. 99620 25515 (9 am to 12 noon)
Or mail to: nizhaltreewalks@gmail.com