FAREWELL I've got to say "farewell" For now, I'm happy to tell. This is my ultimate goodbye. Not a single drop of tear to cry. Farewell to you, the old "me!" Elated like winning a prix. Call of a grandeur awakening, To a better self, I am becoming. Life of anxieties and melancholy, Recreated into joy and serenity. Life of fear and loneliness, Now filled with love and happiness. Drowned into the waters of desperation, Now facing the beauty with sheer admiration. It is my time to shine and rejoice For in my life, this is my best choice! Farewell to the self of my yesterdays, Know the new me without overlays. See the most beautiful transformation, Richly deserving great felicitation. Leaving behind cynicism, be shunned As the days roll by and quickly spun It's a day to wear my heart on my sleeve, I am at my best, trust and believe! Writing is the tool of emotional healing”. Meet Abeera Mirza, an English literature gold medalist, teacher and gifted poet. She won numerous awards for her passion for words. Her poem “Sorry” has inspired readers to heal. It started with poetry and progressed to prose. Abeera has contributed to more than 200 anthologies and many international magazines such as Raven Cage (Germany), Barcelona Magazine (Spain), Pencraft Literary Magazine (Bangladesh), International Literature Language Journal (USA), Alessandra Today, (Italy) Cultural Reverence WordPress, (India) Orfeu. Al, (Albania), Fatehpur Resolution Blogspot (India) and Poetic Essence Publications (India). Her interview has been published on The Mount Kenya Times and Poetic Essence Publications (India). She has won many titles such as Miss Literary Critic by her university. (University of Lahore, Pakistan). Her inner peace is ignited by reading and traveling. She is serving as a jury member for Maverick Writing Community, India where she helps emerging writers to grow. Her perspective is expanded by diverse poetic exploration. Her passion for learning is endless. She is always looking to learn more beyond boundaries. Abeera’s writing style has touched countless lives. It gives a deep understanding of words and their ability to bring change. She is renowned for healing hearts. May her words help in healing. Email: abeera.quotes@gmail.com Facebook|Instagram: @abeera_quotes
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Poetry from Nick Gunter
On Changing I would like to thank you all for joining us here today as we "celebrate“ the life of that thing. You said I never changed, but I have. I changed more than you ever could imagine in your ant-sized brain. You said I never changed, but I have. I changed in ways you never could, as your heart and brain are made of pumice, as they are volcanic, light, and worthless. You said I never changed, but I have. I changed in important ways, in ways you never could, as you are a cold, unchanging, hypocritical, Asshole. You said I never changed but I have, I've grown more than you ever could, or ever did. Or ever would want to. I HAVE changed, and I'm sick and fucking tired of you having said that I haven't.
Essay from Maftuna Mehrojova (one of two)
THE ROLE OF THE “GREEN ECONOMY” IN ENSURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Mehrojova Maftuna Soli qizi
student of the Jizzakh branch National University of Uzbekistan named Mirzo Ulugbek
+998886431643
Abstract: This article analyzes the role and significance of the green economy in ensuring sustainable development. A green economy is an approach to sustainable development that combines natural resource conservation, environmental protection, and economic growth. The article focuses on the role of the green economy in ensuring economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social justice. The importance of a green economy in combating climate change through the transition to renewable energy sources, efficient resource management, and waste reduction will also be discussed. The article aims to explore practical ways to ensure sustainable and equitable development through a green economy.
Keywords: Sustainable development, green economy, environment, renewable energy, efficient resource management, climate change, economic growth, social justice, environmental sustainability, government policies, sustainable development goals, green jobs.
INTRODUCTION
In society, ideas about the need to conserve natural resources for reaction and research purposes gradually led to the formation of scientific concepts based on environmental responsibility to future generations. The implementation of these ideas into practice should be addressed through ensuring sustainable development. Sustainable development is understood as development based on non-threatening the ability to meet the needs of future generations in order to fully meet the needs of the population. Sustainable development can be viewed as a process that develops through the synergistic effect, based on the interconnected development of the “social” – “economic” – “ecological” triad. An economic approach to sustainable development involves the rational use of limited resources. The social approach will be aimed at ensuring social stability and cultural diversity on a global scale. An ecological approach should serve to ensure the normal functioning of any ecological system.
MAIN BODY
At the beginning of the 21st century, the United Nations put forward 17 interconnected global goals as priority directions for human development. According to a study conducted by the Global Recovery Observatory of Oxford University, supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), less than 20% of the total expenditure for recovery is allocated to environmental issues. On December 2, 2023, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted Resolution No. PP-436 “On measures to increase the effectiveness of reforms aimed at the transition of the Republic of Uzbekistan to a ‘green’ economy by 2030.” A program for the transition to a “green” economy and ensuring “green” growth in the Republic of Uzbekistan by 2030 has been approved. It is designed to achieve the following strategic goals:
• reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 35% from the level in 2010;
• Increase the production capacity of renewable energy sources to 15 GW and increase their share to more than 30% of the total volume of electricity production;
• increasing energy efficiency in the industrial sector by at least 20%;
• reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 30%, including through expanding the use of renewable energy sources;
• significantly increase the efficiency of water use in all sectors of the economy, introduce water-saving irrigation technology on an area of up to 1 million hectares;
• Expand green areas in cities by more than 30% by planting 200 million saplings per year and increasing the total number of saplings to more than 1 billion;
• Increase the level of recycling of solid household waste by more than 65%, etc.
The Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 4, 2019, “On Approving the Strategy for the Transition of the Republic of Uzbekistan to a “Green” Economy for the Period 2019-2030,” is an important program for ensuring sustainable development based on the “green economy” in our country. Among the important tasks of the transition to a “green economy” are increasing the energy efficiency of the economy and the rational use of natural resources. These target indicators will be achieved through the modernization of technologies and the development of financial mechanisms. During the implementation of the strategy for the period up to 2030, specific greenhouse gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product will be reduced by ten percent from the level of 2010, and up to one hundred percent of the population and economic sectors will be provided with modern, affordable and reliable electricity. The production and use of environmentally friendly motor fuel and cars will be expanded, and electric transport will be developed.
International scientific activity in ensuring sustainable development was initiated by the UN. In 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted the Millennium Development Goals, and 2015 was designated as the year to calculate the achievement of the set goals. In 2012, the UN emphasized the need for the global community to set development goals after 2015 in order to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. Thus, at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, the leaders of countries around the world agreed to develop the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Sustainable Development Goals include economic, social, and environmental indicators that serve to create a prosperous lifestyle for every person. The agenda includes the implementation of these goals by all UN member states in 2015-2030. The Sustainable Development Goals Framework includes 17 global goals and 169 related tasks: 1) poverty eradication; 2) ending hunger; 3) health and well-being; 4) quality education; 5) Gender equality; 6) clean water and sanitation; 7) cheap and clean energy; 8) creation of decent jobs and economic growth; 9) industrialization, innovation, infrastructure; 10) Reducing inequality; 11) the creation of sustainable cities and comfortable living conditions; 12) responsible consumption and production; 13) combating climate change; 14) protection of marine ecosystems; 15) Conservation of terrestrial ecosystems; 16) peace, justice, and effective governance; 17) cooperation for sustainable development. Uzbekistan has set the task of nationalizing and implementing 16 of these goals. As there are no marine basins on the territory of the republic, the 14th goal (preservation of marine ecosystems) has not been nationalized by Uzbekistan. The problems of ensuring sustainable economic growth within the framework of sustainable development, strengthening an innovative approach to “clean technologies,” and forming a “green economy” are regularly discussed at international economic, environmental, and investment forums. Issues of implementing the “Green Economy” concept in practice form the basis of these discussions.
In the process of transitioning to a green economy, great importance is attached to waste management and recycling. Developing the concept of a circular economy will allow for expanding waste recycling, saving resources, and reducing the negative impact on the environment. Optimizing the process of waste processing and conversion into new materials through nanotechnology serves to increase environmental efficiency. The significance of these technologies lies in the possibility of changing the chemical composition of waste and creating new types of products from them. Another important direction of the green economy is the digitalization of agro-ecological systems. Effective water resource management, field monitoring, and optimal decision-making using artificial intelligence allow for the development of innovative solutions in agriculture. For example, by utilizing drone technologies and artificial intelligence algorithms, it is possible to use land more efficiently, conserve water, and increase agricultural production volumes. The implementation of these digital innovations creates opportunities for resource conservation and effective management.
In Uzbekistan, it is necessary to conduct biotechnological research in the production of recyclable materials, particularly bioplastics and biomaterials. This will help reduce waste and minimize negative environmental impact. Through biotechnologies, it is possible to process waste using insects and microorganisms and create new types of environmentally friendly materials. Scientific research in this field will accelerate the development of recyclable materials and make a significant contribution to environmental protection.
An addition, devices connected to the Internet can use IT and artificial intelligence to effectively manage renewable energy sources and monitor the state of the environment. These technologies enable real-time collection and analysis of environmental data, optimal resource allocation, and efficient consumption management. Data collected using the technical platform can be analyzed in real time and automated solutions can be proposed in the decision-making process. These innovative ideas will serve to accelerate the country’s transition to a “green” economy and create great opportunities for achieving economic stability.
LIST OF LITERATURE USED
1. A.V. Vakhabov, Sh.Kh. Khajibakiyev. “Green Economy.” Textbook – T. “Zebo print” Tashkent – 2021.
2. Brown L.R. Eco-Economy. Building an Economy for the Earth. Earth Policy
Institute. W.W. Norton & Company. New York, London, 2019
3. Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 4, 2019 No. RP-4477 The Resolution of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Approving the Strategy for Transitioning to a Green Economy for the Period 2019-2030.”
Poetry from Jake Triola
The Golden Age of Menace Something blocks me from knowing everything there is to know of another even of you, with whom I have spent some twenty-two hundred— or two thousand, two hundred days, at home and abroad, searching for a skyline fit for bohemian ways and dreams that stretch beyond, slightly under and, on the bad days, adjacent to, if not directly so, the skylines we’ve known all our lives, luckily spent in the same geographies and the same seasons I don’t expect a reward for this behavior but regularly find myself asking when the recognition— and by recognition, I don’t mean, again, reward but, rather, interaction, discourse, hearsay (well, maybe not the last one) —will come I don’t understand why perceived failures pass us by as if we never had a say in them as if we never recognized ourselves in the heat of the moment of their passing as able to take up the mantle, steer the ship of our lives as a place for choices choice may play a role, yes, I don’t doubt that, but I definitely don’t doubt fate, and yet, I’ve felt much closer to choice all my life, but who says they’re in conflict with one another? I wonder these things as I try to recall whether or not I blew out the candle in the living room before heading to bed wouldn’t want to burn the house down but wouldn’t it burn regardless with Fate at the wheel? And wouldn’t it find its way around Choice if she decided to make an appearance through me, through my actions as captain of some vessel floating among a sea of passengers all equally struggling with their own decisions? I blow out a candle, and excessive current causes wires to overheat, leading to melted insulation and sparks, resulting in a full-blown electrical fire. Of course, these fires pose a major risk to you and your family, your family. That’s right. You have a family. The experiments in choice have led you to a family. A family you’re dragging through this feeble century that feels so poorly developed, like some Kaspar-Hauser child sans the mystery, the intrigue of scandal which now lives out in the open air… is it scandal— is it corruption— out in the open like that? For all to see? Or was it always like this? Back in the days when you could try to beat The Turk in chess be seen as blessed as you sauntered down the alley way to the place you know is just a vice… “At least,” you say, “it’s not the worst one…” I cannot recall where I was going I cannot remember my dreams I hardly dream anymore and prefer it that way, anyway. I’m not sitting around and waiting. I’m taking action toward a something better, a something good, in spite of the already good to shed the skin of the disciple to hang it up to dry overnight for no apparent reason to finish another’s sentences against their will, apathetic to their wishes. It’s not a respect thing—I exude respect and admiration for the elites on their streets paranoid beneath the bedsheets… It’s warranted, I suppose. There’s not so much good in the world but there can be good in your world and this is why, perhaps, we are better than God—higher than God because God created a world not which is violent and unhinged but one which is lackluster and mediocre and allows for oxygen to mingle with other things and form all variation of life that’s pretty good. But only that. The birds scream, as Herzog says, and we mustn’t forget that. Why does the dust settle? Why do the ashes come and go so quickly? Phoenixes—Phoenices?—rising and falling from past lives prioritized as a July evening grips you by your ankles in the Midwest heat and coming snow coming rain coming from the sky the sun—Fortune’s number-one stronghold, a compass rose depicting a red magnetic north among otherwise yellow directional arrows The Rite of Spring bears rotten fruit and it’s fine that we left it in the past, as a rose is a rose is a rose no matter where is grows but how can we ensure our flowers go untouched when the right to bear arms is privileged over a drinkable well unblemished, not poisoned, in tandem with dewdrops unspoiled by modern machines marching, consolidations, meeting in the middle of a middle hellbent on oblivion on sending us to waste, abandoned, disgraced, unlike everything we talk about loving as circumstances show a trend toward the triumph of the will and of the fantasy of hierarchy of that syrup dripping from your mouth that manipulates the masses and turns them into assets for an empire in its sunset years, its autumn moon it’s harvest time in these Balkans it’s Canterbury Tales without a point its people scream and shout, reckless abandon, its creameries cremated for some clout by foragers, by those selling toys and hocking things you’ve not seen a respite from the manufactured sheen of supermarkets, but all of this swallowed by the Culture Ministry, her new henchmen, and the stakeholders unnamed I’d name them if I could I’d name them if I knew their names If they are reading this, I want them to know that I’d name them if I could and think we always should but all this considered, I don’t let my heart harden, and I don’t let it go to waste, at the bottom of an apple barrel, going rotten, turning its back on the world, in which, by the way, it certainly doesn’t want to participate, but I’m not the kind to take up arms in a tinderbox, in The Golden Age of Menace, which doesn’t come from abroad but from at home, in my own backyard, in my own chest, and just as the seizures I’ve witnessed have woken me up to my own fragility, so the mirror in front of me reinforces the primary illusion of all life Two Streets I’m standing at the corner intersection, I suppose, of two streets: one leading to Montreal, the other to New Orleans, with a mountain in the middle, while the audience expects a few magic tricks. The problem is that I’m sick of magic, and tricks make me sick, but walking keeps me going, keeps me showing up, stepping, one foot forward, another back to a future I’ve already lived and a past which is only mysterious But a Beast Howling as the earth shakes I pick a plum from the nearby tree and carry on singing about something sweet but dead all those twentieth century ways of loving—and living —that might just prove to be sinister in the eyes of Time Why It’s Good to Go Out Walking I go out walking and it doesn’t do much to quell the craving, to bring anything new to the dusty table, with its flies buzzing all around, but that’s exactly why it’s good to go out walking, to see that there’s nothing waiting, there’s nothing there, and when you return home, there is so much there, so much more than you ever knew
Jake Triola is a writer, musician, and filmmaker from Erie, Pennsylvania currently living in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied cinema, photography, and comparative literature at Ithaca College, where he made the award-winning thesis film, Drawdown. He has since released nine albums and five EPs under the name “Kill Symbols.” His poetry has appeared in Hidden Peak Press, Spinozablue, and The Odd Review.
Essay from Alisher Muhtarjonov
Protecting Nature: Our Responsibility
Today, the growing world population, industrial development, and excessive pressure on natural resources are making the need for environmental protection more urgent. People must pay more attention to preserving nature, as it directly impacts our lives and the well-being of future generations.
Protecting nature primarily means conserving natural resources and helping to regenerate them sustainably. Water, air, land, and wildlife are all essential for our future well-being. However, the improper use of these resources, along with pollution and climate change, can lead to a serious ecological crisis.
As individuals, it is our responsibility to approach nature with care and respect. Reducing plastic waste, optimizing energy consumption, transitioning to renewable energy sources, and choosing eco-friendly products are all ways to conserve natural resources. Every small step we take can lead to significant global change.
Education also plays a crucial role in protecting nature. Teaching the younger generation about environmental responsibility, shaping their values correctly, and fostering an environmentally conscious attitude are essential. Additionally, governments and companies must implement policies that focus on environmental protection and introduce strategies to safeguard our planet.
In conclusion, protecting nature is not only the responsibility of governments or corporations but of every individual. Our actions can bring about change and help create a clean and healthy environment for future generations. Loving and caring for nature is our collective responsibility.
Poetry from Mesfakus Salahin
The Skeleton of Nobody
The spring weeps
Tears come from the mountains
The fountains are dry
All the flowers are in sad mode
The hearts are burning
Everything is empty
Where is the sea of happiness?
It died in the first World War.
Where is peace?
It died in the second World War.
Where is present?
It is in pain, sufferings and curse.
Where is love?
It is in the womb.
Where is civilization?
It is in the tomb.
Where is humanity?
It is only fossil.
Where is men and women ?
They are absent
Who are you?
A skeleton of nobody.
Poetry from Pat Doyne (one of two)
THERE IS NO JOY IN MUDVILLE
This sad election—Damn! What can we say?
I’d like to scribble words to heal the gash,
blunt the axe that hacks away at roots
of law, equality, free speech, free press;
shreds decency and truth, ends founders’ hopes.
Yes, some of these ideals are purely bilge–
all men created equal, high-toned words
that never matched the acts of men and courts:
tribal treaties broken; Jim Crow laws;
subject territories stripped of rights.
But who’d foresee our people would acclaim
a fat old man who led an insurrection;
a rapist, fraudster– jury-tried, convicted;
a leader who pooh-poohed a deadly plague
that took millions of lives; a sycophant
of Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Hitler’s Reich;
a racist who hates immigrants of color.
Once Epstein’s bosom buddy, now a pal
of Elon Musk. A man who owes big bucks
for court fines, so his favor can be bought.
The voting public hails this man their hero.
Gives him power, approves immunity
from oversight. His cronies make the laws.
His judges make him king, with unchecked rule.
He said we’ll never vote again. He means it.
These lines have gotten dark, depressing, grim.
No joy in Mudville- our democracy
swung again and missed—and that’s strike three.
All I see ahead is blighted, bleak.
Some say, “Shut up!” It’s dangerous to speak.
Copyright 11/2024 Patricia Doyne