Alpha Magazine , August Issue

Dear YFCI members and staff,

I hope you all enjoyed your vacations. I hope you also enjoyed the last edition of YFCI summer edition of Alpha Magazine.

It’s time to surge ahead to the next Edition of Alpha Magazine. This time I thought it would be interesting to dedicate a section of the Magazine to a very urgent issue that our world needs to address at the moment. After experiencing a scorching summer where temperature rocketed to 49 Degree Celsius, I felt it was the need of the hour to concentrate on the issue of “Global Warming”.
At YFCI as you all know we encourage country specific articles and reports on issues, so I would like members to conduct a research on the effects of Global warming on their own country or neighbourhood. You can concentrate on the following things for a start;
1. Changes in weather and temperature patterns over the century.
2. Sectors (Industries/household/ farming/etc) which are the largest contributors of the emission of Carbon Dioxide and other harmful gases.
3. The treatment of industrial waste and the regulatory measures for controlling the damage caused to the environment.
4. Contribution of the household sector in the greenhouse effect (a sector which is often neglected) and possible measures to reduce it.
5. Vehicular emission
6. Counter measures to control greenhouse effect ( Existing and proposed)
7. Suggestions to minimize the damage caused.

The above suggestions are given only to help you all in your research and study.
We here at YFCI also welcome people who do not believe in the concept of Global Warming and say that it is a conspiracy to exhort money in the name of research.

You are also welcome to present your views against the concept. The basic submission guidelines are available here ( http://www.freewebs.com/yfcimag/submissionguidelines.htm).
In addition we encourage members to attach relevant photos or paintings or cartoons which can be featured alongside their writings. The picture/cartoon/painting adjudged the most interesting will find special mention in the magazine and the member will earn points on the YFCI discussion board J
Apart from the theme mentioned above the members can still submit country specific articles on the issues mentioned here (http://www.freewebs.com/yfcimag/submissionguidelines.htm ) Please check out the submission guidelines. The last date for submission is July 20, 2007.
Please mail your writings and contributions to the Editor-in-Chief, YFCI Magazine at yfci_editor@yahoo.com

So please hurry!!!! Time is running out!!!!!!

Best,

Anu Maheshwari
Editor-in-Chief

P.S . Please send the writings in Times New Roman font size 12 .