Tag: Awards - Page 8
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Update: Your Lands, Your Wildlife, Your Story Winners
A few good pick-me-up stories about the environment and all its majesty are now up for your enjoyment on the Defenders of Wildlife "Your Lands, Your Wildlife, Your Story" site. Last summer, the Defenders asked for
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Clean Tech Open Goes National, Offers Bigger Prize
This morning, the Clean Tech Open kicked off it's fourth season. The non-profit is known for getting clean tech entrepreneurs off the ground by giving those with the greatest
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Vote for a London Park Make-over
Vote for a park that you think is in need of a make-over and if it wins, the park gets money for a serious spruce-up. Under a new scheme introduced by the Mayor of London, ten parks will get big money to " make them
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Help TreeHugger FINALLY Win a Bloggie Award
UPDATE: Today is the last day to vote. Please take a sec to help us score a win!
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The Earth Awards Announce Their Winner
The Earth Awards held their ceremonies and announced the winning contestant for their search for the best future-crucial design idea.
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Big Apple is Big Winner for Its Transit Improvements
New York City's sustainability efforts under its comprehensive PlaNYC 2030 boosted it above Beijing, which scrambled to clean up its air before hosting the Olympics, and three other international
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CleanTechies Beats Out Non-Green Blogs for "Best Business Blog" Finalist
The Weblog Awards are a fairly big deal in the blogosphere, and when green blogs beat out others for prime finalist spots, it's a good sign that blog readers are catching on.
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California Safe Schools Org Hosts Environmental Health Summit
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the California Safe Schools organization gathered luminaries of the environmental health and children's education world together for a program called "Your Life is Now." The
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Spain's Trees of the Year
This lovely tree has been sheltering the square in the town of Pareja Spain for almost 500 years. It was so famous that it was mentioned in a 1946 travel book: "They call it lady oak because it is rounded, full-bodied, matriarchal, an elm as old
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Middlebury College Produces Its First Green Newspaper
You've heard of both national newspapers and glossy magazines hosting a green issue. Well, now Middlebury College is getting in on the act with a special issue of The Middlebury Campus. All content, cartoons, articles
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Winners of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise Named
The Rolex Awards for Enterprise are given to five Laureates who "embody the spirit of enterprise to benefit their communities and the wider world." The winners each get $100,000 to continue projects already under way and a Rolex Oyster, the world's
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Winners of BBC's Food and Farming Awards Named
Eating at the winner of the "Best Take-away" prize in the BBC Radio 4 Food & Farming Awards could be a challenge. Adam's Fish and Chips is located on an island in the Isles of Scilly and is only open two days a week. But it sounds yummy: the
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ASUS Gets First Ever EU Eco Flower Award
ASUS, in addition to getting its N series notebooks ranked EPEAT Gold, has earned the first ever EU Flower Eco Award for computers for that very same notebook series.
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Green Personality of the Year: Jonathon Porritt
The Edie Awards for Environmental Excellence are an industry recognition of companies that are making "practical improvements to the environment and the way we do business." Edie (Environmental Data Interactive Exchange) is an environmental website
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Announcement: California Clean Tech Open Winners
Out of 43 great innovations submitted to the California Clean Tech Open, a small handful of winners were chosen last night at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts to receive a "start-up-in-a-box" prize, which
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San Jose and California Clean Tech Open Offering Awesome Rewards
The highest ranking competitors in the California Clean Tech Open are about to get a big boost from the city of San Jose.
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Rigoberta Menchú : The Time of No Time
1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú came to speak today at the local community college in my town. I jumped at the opportunity to hear such an incredible woman speak and was especially excited that her speech revolved around global
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The TH Interview: 2008 Brower Youth Awards (Part Two)
This week we hear from two more of this year’s Brower Youth Award winners. Marisol Bacerra has been using Google Maps and other media to plot toxic sites around her home neighborhood in Chicago. In Washington, D.C., Kari Fulton was singled out for her
