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Great way to start celebrating our 1 year anniversary with this new short film from Greenpeace!
For a list of full credits, visit the website of the Writer / Director, Daniel Bird.
Give earth a hand!
Animation, Economy, Environment, Inspiration, Music, Art & Culture, Uncategorized, Videos »
Created by Smart Bubble Society
Written and Narrated by AdBusters, Micah White
via Motionographer
Asheville, Economy, Education, Uncategorized »
Asheville will join the Twestival Global effort this March 25, partnering with hundreds of cities around the globe to raise money and awareness for Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization dedicated to spreading education and ending extreme poverty.
This event will be held at Club 828, will kick off with family-friendly fun from 5PM-7PM, including free food, non-alcoholic beverages and surprise guests. As the sun goes down, local bands Taylor Martin’s Engine, The Screaming Js, and The Enemy Lovers will tune up and get down for the adult portion of the evening. In true Asheville style, the party will feature a selection of local craft brews, food and much more.
Twestival Global Asheville will be live streaming, so Twestival supporters can connect with their global contemporaries in real time.
Admission is a $15 donation
Tickets may be purchased at http://www.amiando.com/Twestival2010_Asheville
All proceeds go to Concern Worldwide
February 2009′s global event raised more than four times the global city average for charity:water. In September 2009′s Twestival Local event, Asheville raised funds and promoted awareness for local agriculture & farmers and connected more people with locally grown food through the Appalachian Sustainable Agricultural Project.
For more information, visit http://www.asheville.twestival.com
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kaufDA, a young team based in Germany is working for an initiative called “Make it green!” with a goal to take part in reducing the carbon footprint by raising awareness of the severe environmental damage caused by carbon emissions.
They have decided to take an interesting approach to raising awareness of carbon emissions resulting from the use of the internet – specifically of blogs, creating “My blog is carbon neutral” buttons, so bloggers can demonstrate they care about the environment and the carbon footprint of having a blog.
How do they neutralize your blog’s carbon footprint?
By planting trees in cooperation with the Arbor Day Foundation in Plumas National Forest in Northern California for our project to neutralize the carbon footprint of blogs.
“Thousands of wildfires have burned in many national forests over the past ten years and 88.000 acres of Plumas’ were destroyed by two fires in 2007. For replanting this area we need help from bloggers all over the world! For every participating blog, we plant a tree. One blog – one tree.” -Christin Gericke, Make it green! Team
How much carbon dioxide does your blog create?
According to a study by Alexander Wissner-Gross, PhD, physicist at Harvard University and environmental activist, an average website causes about 0.02g (0,0008oz.) of carbon dioxide for each visit. Assuming an average blog gets 15,000 visits a month, it has yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 3,6kg (8lb.). This can mainly be tracked back to the immense energy usage from (mainframe) computers, servers, and their cooling systems.
kaufDA provides advertising brochures of local stores online to help consumers search for specific products and find good deals in their neighborhood. This reduces the amount of brochures printed and so the project helps the environment by reducing unnecessary paper in mailboxes. An American on average receives 41 pounds of junk mail per year. This has the same carbon footprint as burning six gallons of gasoline.
For more details and to find out how you can participate, visit http://www.kaufda.de/umwelt/co2-neutral/my-blog-is-carbon-neutral/
