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| | | Picture Sustainability Photo Contest 2008 | | 2008-01-13 05:21:00 | | Rainforest Alliance's "Picture Sustainability" Photo Contest RulesRainforest Alliance invites you to submit photographs that promote our mission of working to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. We encourage submission of photographs that display and celebrate local cultures and communities, sustainable livelihoods in agriculture, forestry and tourism, and flora and fauna in landscapes, environments and habitats around the world.Eligibility, entry period and instructions, judging criteria, prize details and winner selection and notification procedures are detailed below. By entering this photo contest, you agree to all of the rules of this contest and to all of the legal terms and conditions listed below.EligibilityThis contest is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older as of the date the contest begins. Employees and immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling or sibling's spouse) of employees of the Rainforest Alliance and its affiliates, Via Natura or its affiliates, Fujifilm or its affiliates, Native Energy or its affiliates, GreenSpot or its affiliates, AeroGal or its affiliates, Hotel Oro Verde or its affiliates, Art Wolfe, Inc. or its affiliates, are not eligible to participate. No purchase is necessary to enter the contest.This contest is void in Puerto Rico, outside the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and where prohibited by law.Entry PeriodThe contest begins December 21, 2007, 4pm EST and ends March 15, 2008, 4pm EST. All entries must be received within this time period in order to be considered for prizes. Rainforest Alliance reserves the right to modify the deadline for submissions due to circumstances beyond its control.more : raphotocontest , Submit Your Photo... | | By: DSLR CAMERAS ONLINE | | |
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| Sustainability+Cocktails=Green Drinks | | 2008-01-10 19:30:00 | | There's nothing like a nice stress relieving cocktail! Now you can booze it up AND meet interesting environmental types at a pub near you, thanks to Green Drinks International. Green Drinks is a non profit company that set out to create informal meetings/cocktail parties where environmentalists could meet and talk. With the explosive popularity of eco living, GreenDrinks has sprouted up in 309 cities worldwide, including Seoul and even Kabul for heaven's sake! Hey, climate change must be really serious if they are even meeting about it in Kabul! Anyway, it's a great cause and a wonderful opportunity to meet people and network.Find your next meeting at http://www.greendrinks.org. Bottoms up!... | | By: I Dream of Greenie | | |
| | Land Rover LRX Concept: Small sustainability is big | | 2007-12-14 10:11:00 | | You're looking at Land Rover's next big thing. The LRX concept making its debut at the Detroit show is small, sporty, and designed to be as luxurious as any Landie. It could go on sale in three years or so for more money than the 10-inch-longer LR2/Discovery. It's Land Rover's Mini Cooper or Audi TT says design director Gerry McGovern, showing off his first concept since leaving Lincoln.With a sports-car-fast windshield, low, sloping roofline, and wheels pushed out to the four corners, it looks longer than it is in the vacuum of a single-car studio showing. Note how the shoulderline rises faster than the beltline. The C-pillars have see-through openings leading into a rather squat rear window. These cues combine with traditional Land Rover exterior design elements; hexagonal grille, vents atop the power-bulge hood and with the vent shape repeated in the front fenders, dark wheel-lip accents and 20-inch wheels. The hood opens clamshell-style and the power tailgate is two-piece, top- and bottom-hinged.We've seen countless small two-door coupe SUV concepts the past few years, before production versions arrive with four doors. That's not the idea here: The LRX would be a smaller, sportier alternative to the Range Rover Sport.Other details1. Full-time all-wheel drive with Hill Descent Control.2. Uncovered aluminum (no wood trim) as part of the seat structure and dash.3. 2+2 seats are attached to the center-tunnel console, split into three piece when folded forward.4. Polycarbonate side window, large sunroof are 40 percent lighter than glass.5. Leather seats and trim are vegetable-tanned, chromium-free.6. Headliner and vanilla "suede" door inserts are made of recycled glass bottles.7. Concept built on LR2 platform; it's 171.3-inches long, 78.7-inches wide on a 104.3-inch wheelbase and just 61-inches tall. [source:MotorTrend]... | | By: Autoshows | | |
| | Should we abandon 'Growth' for sustainability | | 2007-08-14 09:48:00 | | "Fast food or Cordon bleu"I was reading in Guy Kawasakis blog about the tour de france and the success of the discovery channel team, but the thing that really struck me was the story about Trek the guys who supplied the bikes that Team discovery used, now I will not repeat the story here, this is the link if you want to read it ( http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/08/my-visit-to-tre.html), and it connected with what was spinning around my head as I came in to work. Fast Food or Cordon Bleu, what do you want to be involved in, a fast food company is a quick and dirty,build,make and sell the company as quick as you can, Cordon Bleu, build a strong company, get to sustainability and enjoy, something like the guys at "Orange County Choppers" or Trek, my question today is what do you want to build ? the answer lies within the founder? is it quick gain or a long term passion, neither is the correct answer as I said it lies within the founder and his personal motivation, and I am not here to p... | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
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| Sixth Annual Sustainability Conference at UCSB | | 2007-05-17 16:00:24 | | The University of California at Santa Barbara is hosting the sixth annual University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges Sustainability Conference. The conference focuses on increasing the sustainability of university campuses and learning about how universities can get involved in sustainability movements both within their own campuses, in their local communities and across the nation.
UCSB is expecting this conference to be one of the largest sustainability conference in the nation. Over 800 participants from all 10 campuses in the University of California system, all 20 from the California State University system, and 10 community colleges are expected. Additionally, in an effort increase student involvement, over 150 students from several different campuses were invited to attend.
Several exciting initiatives emerged from the past sustainability conferences including efforts about green design, clean and renewable energy and sustainable tr... | | By: Zedomax | | |
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