21 April: Hyderabad -

22 April: Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Vadodara, Bhopal

Details of the event• Route: in the shape of CO2

• Dates: 22nd April (21st April: Hyderabad)

• Cities: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Vadodara, Bhopal

• Times: Reporting time: 6 am; Start time: 6:15 am

• Target audience: Runners, walkers, cyclists

Bhopal

New Delhi Bangalore

Nehru Park Cubbon Park

Climate Challenge• Himalayas, the 'Third Pole’, contains the largest store of freshwater in

the world after the North & South Poles

• These ‘Water Towers’ are the main source of freshwater for almost a third of the world’s population

• But global warming threatens to put an end to this. With mountain glaciers rapidly melting and catastrophic floods increasing in frequency, climate change is putting ecosystems & communities at risk in the most heavily populated part of the world

Why Crawl-Walk-Run?• Trying to stop climate change or reversing it, might seem like an impossible

task. A select few can't do anything, but if there is a mass movement at a micro level involving citizens of the world, we just might have a chance

• It's not planet Earth that needs to be saved, it's species homo-sapiens on it that do

• Start with MOVING yourself & getting your loved ones to do the same

• Remember, "No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch"

Why CO2 Route?• The earliest cave paintings date

ba c k 3 2 , 0 0 0 yea rs . O n e interpretation of them suggests that the cave people wanted to visualize their challenges before leaving the cave to confront them

• Modern times biggest challenge is to reduce emission of CO2 gases

History• CO2 E-Race (Erase CO2 – A Race for Climate Awareness)

was initiated in 2008 by Danish Cultural Institute as an Art and Climate Awareness Project in preparation for UN’s Global Climate Change Conference COP15

• To promote environmentally sustainable climate solutions it was decided to use as inspiration some of the earliest known human art

Organized by founders of• La Ultra - The High: World's highest altitude & toughest ultra-marathon:

• 222 km run in Leh - Ladakh region, crossing world's highest motor-able mountain pass, Khardung La (17,700 ft) with an oxygen content of just 33% of that at sea level with 60 hr cut-off

• Pushes mind & body to absolute limit & redefines what is humanly possible

• Back 2 Fitness: Chain of sports & exercise rehabilitation centres that aims at

• Helping people from all walks of life get back to the physical activity they enjoy doing most

• By helping them use their bodies optimally

Collaboration with

• CO2 Green Drive (CGD), an organization embedded in the Danish Cultural Institute have collaborated with us in pursuing an agenda of sustainability, development and climate awareness in India

• Cities involved: 2009: Milan, Riga and Copenhagen; 2010: Riga, Roskilde, Vilnius and Milan; 2011: Parma, Urbino, New York & Copenhagen; 2012: Confirmed - New York, Dakar, Yokohama & Bangalore. Tbc - Rome, Santiago and Horsens (Denmark)

• Centre for Social Market: CSM is an independent, non-profit organization promoting entrepreneurship for the triple bottom line – people, planet and prosperity.

laultra@thehigh.in (subject line: eDay Crawl-Walk-Run)