@vfrmedia the new "Lahore Masterplan 2025" has provisions for only approving building permits if they have green roofs or solar installations.
#Lahore has had active net-metering systems in place since 2011. Once solar efficiency hit high enough to make smaller installations worthwhile, the market exploded and the time lag for fully connected net-metered connections went from within 1 week to just over a month currently due to demand, mostly due to a shortage of smart net-meters.
We got married in our home town of #Lahore last Sunday & decided to use the opportunity of our friends & family gathered under one smog-filled sky to raise awareness about the #ClimateCrisis & platform local climate activists.
Its going to take time to get our own snaps sorted, but heres a thread of the highlights with links to sites/socials:
We recognize a guest or two at our #ClimateWedding might be controversial, but we believe their local recognition and their immense contribution to the world’s renewables movement are not things we can easily ignore.
#ClimateChange is a huge topic, even when talking locally, so we decided to focus on the two most immediate threats to the city - #Smog (air pollution) & #Heatwaves.
We shot short videos on these topics & placed their QR codes at the #ClimateWedding for our guests, explaining the issue & what could be done about it.
(p.s. english subtitles for the videos are still being worked on)
We also had a wedding newspaper printed called “The JibRish Tribune”, explaining our motives for the #ClimateWedding, profiles of our celebrity cutouts, and most importantly, sharing the work and contact details for our local climate activists who so graciously agreed to be a part of our wedding.
Guests loved it so much, we have had to order a second print for them to keep!
We invited local #ClimateChange activists, who have worked themselves on projects locally with minimal recognition and support, to our #ClimateWedding. We shared their work in our wedding newspaper, and in an exhibit at the venue. We are immensely thankful to them. Link’s to their social media posts below.
We know this is not a solution anymore but it is still the most basic action most of us can undertake ourselves, so at the wedding, we gifted citrus tree saplings (and rose plants) to our guests to take home and grow. We weren’t sure if any would take up the offer so ordered just enough for each family and…
Today in Labor History February 12, 1983: One hundred women protested in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence (would make the testimony of women worth half that of men’s testimony in courts of law). The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. However, they were successful in repealing the law.
#OnThisDay Shah Jahan was born in Lahore to Jahangir and the Rathore princess from Marwar, Jagat Gosain.
The child's birth was regarded as highly auspicious. A worthy from Iran, Mullah Mahmud, after poring over the child's birth chart, pronounced that he would go on to become "the star of the constellation of the Caliphate."
Following his cue, Muhammad Hadi, a Mughal courtier, went on to write that the child's birth was "a sign of auspiciousness and divine guidance," and he believed that 👇🏻
Artificial rain was used for the first time in Pakistan on Saturday in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in the megacity of #lahore the provincial #government said.
General Jean-François Allard with his family on the terrace of their house at Anarkali, #Lahore.
1836 CE painting by Imam Baksh Lahori from the Edith & Cary Welch collection sold by Sothebys (£127,000)
A former French Commander assigned to #Sikh Army of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Allard is seen seated here with his wife Banu Pan Dei.
He was, in his circles, well known for the style of his partitioned beard which he would roll over his ears while having meals. #IndianHistory#Art#IndianHeritage
On #ClimateChange and the #UrbanHeatIsland effect in developing countries blindly following the American style of "development", personal stories from people trying to cope with these both climate and architecturally magnified heatwaves.
AQLI report classifies #Bangladesh as top polluted country; #Delhi emerges as ‘most polluted megacity’
..if #Pakistan were to adhere to the #WHO guideline, inhabitants of #Karachi could potentially gain three years in life expectancy, while those in #Lahore might gain EIGHT..
Big Oil & IMF keep us trapped using fuels that rob millions in the #GlobalSouth of nearly a DECADE of life
My house flooded THRICE in a WEEK. My block had a gastroenteritis outbreak because of it. I had to take my Dad to the ER because I was too ill to treat him at home myself
Before that? Flooded once two YEARS ago
More than SIX years after the last one
HUNDREDS are DEAD across #Pakistan#India, bt thats "TYPICAL"?
"..cities in #Punjab are expected to receive spells of heavy rain today and tomorrow, while #Chenab and #Ravi rivers will be flooded due to an incessant downpour in #India’s northern states, which has increased the water discharge towards downstream areas."
"The #monsoon which started on June 25 has so far resulted in the death of 80 people while 142 were injured..."
"This is not a climate dispatch. It is just a recounting of some of the terrors the month of June brought us. One month. That’s it. And it truly is the stuff of nightmares."
Press Release poster in Urdu: "30years old Rain records broken in #Lahore, Unprecedented 291mm of rain in less than 10 hours!" - Monsoon Control Room, Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Lahore image/jpeg