Tag: Contests - Page 2
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Help the Eco Music Festival Design the First Sustainable Event Tent
This July 4th weekend, the Eco Music Festival (EMU) is bringing Leftover Salmon, RJD2, Tea Leaf Green, Perpetual Groove, and other musical acts one and a half miles above sea level—to Snowmass Village, Colorado—for several days of fun. From t
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Urban Beekeeper, Noni Leather Maker, and Yogurt Cup Clothes Designers Vie For Visionary Award
Just when awards season seem to be over, here comes the VISIONary Awards. Among the nominees there is an urban beekeeper, an organic Noni farmer, and an active wear company reusing trash bags and
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Green Your School Has a Bright Future: Still Time to Register!
The Green Your School Challenge is taking entries until April 1, but 188 schools have already submitted plans, and 1,200 have signed up as mobile subscribers, and the pool of ideas is already filled with great potential—but they can always use
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Design a Winning Reusable Towel and Win $500 -- Deadline Extended!
Every day, more than 3,000 tons of paper towel waste are produced in the United States alone—and this represents a huge environmental impact. For every ton of paper towels produced, 17 trees are cut down and 20,000
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High School Students Produce a Hip Hop Anthem Connecting Green and Social Issues (Video)
Last February, a group of high school students from the Twin Cities won the top prize in the Dream Reborn Contest, calling for music honoring the legacy and call to service of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Calling themselves the
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Green Your School: Take the DoSomething.Org Challenge
The Green Your School Challenge is back! There are many ways to reduce energy consumption or make a building or process more sustainable, so the Green Your School Challenge is aiming to get students and teachers thinking creatively about what they can
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GE Contest Seeks Best Ideas for Home Energy Efficiency & Using Renewable Electricity
GE has announced a new competition, called Powering Your Home. For anyone with a solid concept about home energy creation, management and use, it's your chance to partner up with GE to make turn that idea into reality. Check out the contest rules and
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Google Launches International Science Fair With a Most Amazing Grand Prize
Google's launched a new science fair that looks like a lot of fun not only to enter but to witness. They state, "Google is looking for the brightest, best young scientists from around the world to submit interesting, creative projects that are relevant
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48 Hour Film Festival Launches Eco-Themed Competition
The International film competition by the 48 Hour Film Project is starting up again. The filmmakers have just 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a film project, and this year the theme is focused
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Any ideas for a more sustainable mobile telecom industry? (Video)
Here's a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas,
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Sylvia Earle is TreeHugger's Person of the Year
When TreeHugger compiled a short list of contenders for the title of "Person of the Year" in 2010, we knew it would be difficult to choose a single winner. Everyone on the shortlist, we agreed, deserved some recognition.
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TreeHugger Readers Select Jane Goodall as Person of the Year
After we decided to select a TreeHugger Person of the Year, we also wanted to see which of the eco-heroes of 2010 our readers would pick from our short list ballot and after a week of voting the response was
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TreeHugger's Person of the Year: The Shortlist
The results are in: TreeHugger's 2010 Person of the Year, chosen by our readers.
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Feast Our Eyes and Blow Our Minds. Photo of The Year 2010.
Our pals at Wend magazine alerted us to the Photo of the Year competition, now in its ninth year. The comp is a fundraiser for MESD Outdoor School Program in Oregon, and POTY (a rather awkward acronym) has raised
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Young Ecoheroes Battle Waste in Their School's Cafeteria
Stay in line. Hands to yourself. No talking. Eyes on your own work. These are the messages
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California's Cleantech Open Announces Awesome Innovation Finalists
The Cleantech Open is an exciting event for sustainabile technology. It's an annual competition that brings brilliant ideas into daylight, and it's the world's largest
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New Nau Now Available for Fall 2010
Having arrived in staggered releases, the Nau Fall 2010 line appears to now be complete. Unlike the heady days, four years ago, when the chic outdoor/urban brand of eco-clothing launched with more industry innovations than a porcupine
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The Beat Waste Startup Challenge Honors Innovative Small Businesses
Waste Ventures is working to create a sustainable economy for trash collectors in India. The Beat Waste Startup Challenge, sponsored by the Adventure Ecology and Sculpt the Future Foundation, offered $25,000 in prizes to innovative businesses dedicated
