Mumbai: Day 5-7
We are in a new hotel as of Sunday night to be closer to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in order to make connections and dive deeper into our classes about climate change adaptation and science and policy. The first full day in this part of Mumbai called Powai we started a little later than what was originally planned because everyone was so exhausted from all the touring and presentations that went from six in the morning to ten at night. Our late start began at the hotel on the same block as ours in an area that seemed very modern and vibrant, and at breakfast we were told that 15 years ago this part of the city was undeveloped and it now has multiple hotels, a galleria and lots of restaurants. We had the afternoon free to work on some assignments for the class and later that afternoon we heard presentations from many people including Monika Jain who spoke about the architectural aspect of designing resilient cities for climate change and spoke about a competition called Solar Decathlon in which a team from a university builds a sustainable house that can produce its own energy and then compete at a national, or in IIT Bombay's case international, level. This peaked a lot of our student's interests and we decided to try and start conversations about starting a team at Northeastern because it sounds like an amazing opportunity and experience.
The next day was another academic session and presentation day with highlights from a professor at IIT Bombay who talked about the Indian monsoon, what affects it and how climate change will impact it in the future with modeling techniques. At night, after getting some work done in our individual teams to prepare for the war games, in which each sector of the Indian government (which will be our class split up into 5 groups of 5) is trying to decide how to allocate its resources and pass rules and regulations to prepare accordingly to climate change and its implications on the Indian infrastructure, I went out to dinner with some friends to a place called Aromas (not the Israeli one unfortunately..) and then for some ice cream that was delicious. It was prepared like in Cold Stones but with real ice cream and for decoration they put some fudge on the cold stone to harden it and then place it on top of the ice cream for chocolaty goodness.
Today our water sector team met up at breakfast to put the finishing touches on our presentation and we then headed over to the other hotel for our classes. We heard from other presenters as well today but what was particularly amazing was that whoever wanted to go to a Solar Decathlon group meeting and ask them questions about how they got it started at IIT Bombay to model our start to be similar.
These past few days have been very informative but not so much touring, so next weeks can be more relaxed in Bangalore and Kerala, which I'm so excited for!!
We are in a new hotel as of Sunday night to be closer to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in order to make connections and dive deeper into our classes about climate change adaptation and science and policy. The first full day in this part of Mumbai called Powai we started a little later than what was originally planned because everyone was so exhausted from all the touring and presentations that went from six in the morning to ten at night. Our late start began at the hotel on the same block as ours in an area that seemed very modern and vibrant, and at breakfast we were told that 15 years ago this part of the city was undeveloped and it now has multiple hotels, a galleria and lots of restaurants. We had the afternoon free to work on some assignments for the class and later that afternoon we heard presentations from many people including Monika Jain who spoke about the architectural aspect of designing resilient cities for climate change and spoke about a competition called Solar Decathlon in which a team from a university builds a sustainable house that can produce its own energy and then compete at a national, or in IIT Bombay's case international, level. This peaked a lot of our student's interests and we decided to try and start conversations about starting a team at Northeastern because it sounds like an amazing opportunity and experience.
The next day was another academic session and presentation day with highlights from a professor at IIT Bombay who talked about the Indian monsoon, what affects it and how climate change will impact it in the future with modeling techniques. At night, after getting some work done in our individual teams to prepare for the war games, in which each sector of the Indian government (which will be our class split up into 5 groups of 5) is trying to decide how to allocate its resources and pass rules and regulations to prepare accordingly to climate change and its implications on the Indian infrastructure, I went out to dinner with some friends to a place called Aromas (not the Israeli one unfortunately..) and then for some ice cream that was delicious. It was prepared like in Cold Stones but with real ice cream and for decoration they put some fudge on the cold stone to harden it and then place it on top of the ice cream for chocolaty goodness.
Today our water sector team met up at breakfast to put the finishing touches on our presentation and we then headed over to the other hotel for our classes. We heard from other presenters as well today but what was particularly amazing was that whoever wanted to go to a Solar Decathlon group meeting and ask them questions about how they got it started at IIT Bombay to model our start to be similar.
These past few days have been very informative but not so much touring, so next weeks can be more relaxed in Bangalore and Kerala, which I'm so excited for!!
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