Tag: Awards - Page 6
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People's Design Award Bestowed on the Trek Lime
When Trek unveiled the Lime back in 2007, the mission was to bring delightful, non-threatening biking to grown-ups. Some nice validation came last week when the Lime won the 2009 People's Design Award, a subcategory of the prominent National Design
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Nadav Kander is Winner of Prix Pictet Photography Prize 2009
The Prix Pictet is the new global photography prize that focuses on sustainability. Sponsored by Pictet & Cie, a Swiss bank, and in its second year, this year's theme is the earth. Last year it was
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Green Blogger Crowned Greenest Voice in the UK
The winner of the competition to be the Green Voice of the UK is a green blogger, Piper Terrett. She beat out 100 other applicants and 3 other very impressive finalists. As the Brit's say "Piper pips the post".
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Get A Green Certification for Your Green Lifestyle with PineMark
Think you're among the greenest of the green? Or maybe you're not, but you are interested in all of this green, and how it can help you make green? Too bad there is no symbol or banner you can fly from your front yard to identify
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A Chinese Photographer's 'Infernal Landscapes'
Freelance photojournalist Lu Guang's unflinching images of AIDS victims in China's Henan province, honored in the World Press Photo contest for 2003, successfully prodded a reluctant
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Documentary Team Win Nau's Inaugural $10,000 Grant 4 Change
Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele are a Seattle-based documentary team specialising in multimedia stories about people, nature and climate change. They are also the just announced recipients of $10,000 from the eco outdoor clothing company Nau, who
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Artists are Taking the Lead at the 2012 Olympics
The summer Olympics are being held in the London area in 2012 and all kinds of community events are being planned. Artists Taking the Lead is a project whereby 12 winning artists will be awarded up to £500,000 to create 12
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The L Prize: A New Look at an Old Bulb
These days with CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs), and LEDs (light emitting diodes) and everything else, it seems hard (or maybe just taboo) to remember a time when we used something as inefficient as the standard
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Solyndra Gets $535 Million from DOE for Solar Panel Manufacturing
Just yesterday Mike reported that the current recession could cut the solar panel manufacturing industry in half by 2010. Now we have reports that the US Government finalized its $535 million deal with Solyndra, a solar panel
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Free Range Studios To Offer Grants to Non-Profit and Socially Minded Business
If you're a non-profit or socially responsible business and want some pretty kick-ass design/filmmaking skills for free(!!!) then pay attention. Free Range Studios, "the Creative Agency with a Conscience" and creators with Sustainable Table of The
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Charge Any Electrical Device While Riding Your Bike
Eurobike closed a successful week in which records were broken for trade visitors, public attendance, and submittals for the esteemed Eurobike awards. For the second year, a Eurobike Green
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Invention Overload! A Slideshow of the 2009 James Dyson Award
Inventors from the world over have submitted to this year's James Dyson Award, and we've got a prototyp-o-licious slideshow of our favorite entries. James Dyson is the iconic designer behind products like the Dyson vacuum cleaners and the Airblade hand
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Greyhound Australia Donates $12,000 Solar Panel Under Travel Green Program
We knew that bus travel was a much more sound means of transit than flying, but who knew it could also pay off so handsomely. One lucky family who travelled on Greyhound buses in Australia have scored themselves a free 1 kW solar panel system, worth
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Nickelodeon Gives Green For Kids to Go Green
The folks at Nickelodeon's new The Big Green Help program, want to give away a little green to help kids go green. In particular, they're interested in things like asking kids to
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Change the World And Win $10,000 with Nau's Grant For Change
We've long been a fan of the verve and social conscience shown by eco-apparel company, Nau. (see our archive of previous posts below) But they're not content with just making stylish, well crafted, functional, outdoor clothing from responsible
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Chelsea Football Team is the Greenest, Plus Other Winners
The winners of the Green 500 awards have been announced--these are organisations taking part in a London-wide campaign to reduce carbon emissions.
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Green Winners: One Lottery Winner Loves His Allotment, the Other Gets an MBE
Some really big green winners in Britain this week... The recent winner of the EuroMillions lottery, Brian Caswell, won £24.5M, that's $40M US, and is a passionate allotment gardener. Upon learning of his win, he went straight
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IREO Renewable Energy Awards Honors Industry's Best, Brightest (and Youngest)
Last Thursday evening at the United Nations several renewable energy luminaries—and some TreeHugger favorites—were honored at the IREO
