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2008-08-28
September 23, 2008, New York, NY
Americans for Informed Democracy, the Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship and GOOD magazine cordially invite you to The Social Innovators Awards.
Date & Time
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
6:30pm Cocktail reception
7:15pm Awards program
8:45pm Dessert and coffee
Location
One Pace Plaza, Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Innovator in Smart Investing
Bill Drayton, Founder and CEO, Ashoka
Presented by Justin Rockefeller, Co-Founder of Generation Engage
Innovator in International Development
Helene Gayle, President and CEO, CARE USA
Innovator in Global Understanding
Judith McHale, Managing Partner, GEF/Africa Growth Fund
Presented by Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young
TO LEARN MORE AND PURCHASE TICKETS:
www.aidemocracy.org/Innovators2008.php
More on the Awards
The Social Innovator Awards celebrates leaders who are taking entrepreneurial approaches toward social change and thereby making our world a better, safer place. This year's honorees are business executives and non-profit leaders whose leadership offers a fresh and innovative approach to solving today's most pressing global challenges. The awards night will also honor two young innovators in social responsibility. These young leaders symbolize the promise of the next generation to build on today's social innovation.
The awards night is hosted by Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), in partnership with the Helene & Grant Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Pace University and GOOD magazine. AID empowers young people in the United States to address global challenges such as poverty, disease, climate change, and conflict through awareness and action. We promote just and sustainable solutions at the campus, community and national level.
2008-08-10
September 18 - 19, 2008, New York City
Sourcing and Solutions: The Green Event Conference and Expo
Sharing ideas on how to develop, design and produce for an eco-conscious world.
Featured Discussions:
Creating Green
Green is the new.... fill in the blank, currency, trend or wave. How de retailers create green products that will improve their business? What has been successful? How do we keep green consumers interested?
Green Stamps
Confusion bounds regarding how to identify a “real” green product. Our panel discussion will help attendees learn about what is available in the market to support their green claims. It will answer the questions: what is the standard? How are products certified? And what are the differences?
Keynote Speaker:
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies—Green to Gold
Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, Andrew Winston works with leading companies to use environmental thinking to drive growth. He is the co-author of the bestseller Green to Gold, which highlights what works—and what doesn’t—when companies go “green.” Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, and has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, CNBS and National Public Radio.
The Green Event will feature an Expo Hall on Gallery 8 of the Millennium Hotel that will include “The GreenWay”, an educational photo and product presentation of green products in action highlighting supply chain initiatives from raw materials to end-use products.
September 18 - 19, 2008
The Millennium Broadway Hotel and Hudson Theatre, New York City
2008-08-09
4 June 2008 – 22 November 2008, Wellington, New Zealand; January - June 2009, Brazil
The focus of the global 2008-2010 exhibition is on the solutions and the opportunities for countries, companies and communities to "Kick the Carbon Habit" and de-carbonize their economies and life-styles.
Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the (Carbon) Habit
The Natural World Museum (NWM), in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), present the 2008–2009 traveling exhibit entitled Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit. The exhibit will debuted at the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington to commemorate the celebration of UN World Environment Day (WED) on 5 June 2008. For the past 30 years a different country has hosted the WED celebration; this is the first year Wellington, New Zealand has been the official host city. As the host of WED 2008, on the theme of “Kick the Carbon Habit,” New Zealand is one of the first countries to pledge a carbon-neutral future.
Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: Kick the Carbon Habit features the works of 27 artists representing 20 countries. The contemporary art pieces all focus on climate change, with an emphasis on lowering carbon emissions. The thought-provoking exhibition includes photographs, paintings, sculpture, video, multimedia and conceptual installations.
Each year, NWM and UNEP launch their annual flagship exhibit in honor of WED – a principal vehicle through which the United Nations stimulates awareness of the environment and enhances political action. Each exhibit focuses on a different environmental issue and utilizes the universal language of art as a catalyst to raise global awareness as it tours the world. After New Zealand, the exhibit is scheduled to tour through Latin America, North America, Asia, and Europe.
Wellington, New Zealand
4 June 2008 – 22 November 2008
Te Papa Museum
Brazil
January - June 2009
The 2007–2008 international exhibition, Melting Ice / A Hot Topic: Envisioning Change, focused on climate change, specifically melting ice caps, to coincide with last year’s WED theme. The exhibit will directly reach a projected one million viewers upon completion of the tour. It kicked off its tour in Oslo at the Nobel Peace Center during UN WED in June 2007, and then traveled to the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, then moved to Monaco, and is now housed in the Field Museum in Chicago, USA, where it will remain through September 1, 2008.
2008-06-17
November 4, 2008 is the next deadline.
The Skoll Foundation announces that November 4, 2008 is the next deadline for receipt of applications for the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
As always, we are looking for social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale positive change in the areas of tolerance and human rights, health, environmental sustainability, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and economic and social equity.
Within these issues, we are particularly interested in applications from social entrepreneurs working in five critical sub-issue areas that threaten the survival of humanity – climate change, nuclear proliferation, global pandemics, conflict in the Middle East and water scarcity.
Award winners are celebrated at the annual Skoll World Forum following their selection, at the end of March in Oxford, England.
You can read the Award Guidelines, take our eligibility quiz and fill out an application on our Web site.
Future deadlines will be posted to the Skoll Foundation website as they become available.
2008-06-11
Anyone under 21 is encourage to enter before 31st July, 2008. Winner to receive a cash prize and find their pictures in international media.
CIWEM is calling for all young photographers to enter the Environmental Photographer of the Year competition before 31st July. Anyone under 21 is encouraged to enter to become the Young Environmental Photographer of the Year, receive a cash prize, and find their pictures in international media.
The Environmental Photographer of the Year shares images of environmental and social issues with international audiences, enhancing our understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change. It is open to all professional and amateur, national and international photographers working with digital and traditional photography. Categories include Changing Climates, The Natural World, A World of Difference and Quality of Life.
2008 is the first year of our special Under 21 Category, which is open to all young people throughout the world. Although the Under 21 category does not have specific thematic boundaries, the competition encourages entries that highlight issues important to their generation, explore their place in society or celebrate people or places that they value. The winner of this category will become the Young Environmental Photographer of the Year and win a cash prize.
More information is available at www.ciwem.org/awards/epoty.
2008-05-16
Presented by Reuters - IUCN. Deadline to enter: 15 June 2008.
Established in 1998 by Reuters Foundation and the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Reuters IUCN Media Awards aim to help raise global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues by encouraging high standards in environmental reporting worldwide.
Since the launch of the competition, 44 reporters have been recognised for outstanding environmental journalism. These journalists come from countries as diverse as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, El Salvador, Germany, Great Britain, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, South Africa, Togo, USA, and Zimbabwe.
The global winner of the competition, selected amongst six candidates representing Asia, English-speaking Africa, French-speaking Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America & Oceania, receives a cash prize of US$ 5,000. Each regional winner receives a trophy and a travel grant to attend the global ceremony to be held at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain in October 2008.
Direct applicants should:
- Complete the entry form
- Attach a copy of the article
- Provide a translation of the article in English, French or Spanish
- Submit the above to IUCN by 15 June 2008
- By e-mail: media.awards@iucn.org
or by fax : +41 (22) 999-0020
or by post: Rue Mauverney 28
Gland
1196
Switzerland
Nominations may be made by media publishers, editors, TV producers, IUCN staff, IUCN Members, Commissions, and Reuters representatives. Nominators should:
- Provide contact information for the journalist or the publisher
- Attach an original copy of the article
- Provide a translation of the article into English, French or Spanish
- Submit the above to IUCN
For general enquiries contact IUCN Headquarters: media.awards@iucn.org
2008-04-22
Go green (and blue*)! It's April 22, 2008 – Earth Day.
Find and list Earth Day Events Worldwide on the Earth Day Network.
Discover events happening around the globe.
For more events in Asia, see also
Earth Day 2008 @ Cyberport, Hong Kong
Earth Day 2008: A Call for Climate on April 22, 2008.
*Also on April 22: The BYOBlue campaign - wear BLUE for Earth Day 2008 to VOTE for No Coal
Want to stop global warming? Wear BLUE for Earth Day 2008! Join millions of people around the world who will be wearing BLUE to signify their vote for NO COAL. Events will be happening April 19th through April 22nd
About Earth Day Network: Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.
2008-04-13
2008 Theme: Biodiversity and Agriculture, 22 May 2008. Download information and resources.
Agriculture is a key example of how human activities have profound impacts on the ecosystems of our planet. This year’s theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD), “Biodiversity and Agriculture,” seeks to highlight the importance of sustainable agriculture not only to preserve biodiversity, but also to ensure that we will be able to feed the world, maintain agricultural livelihoods, and enhance human well being into the 21st century and beyond.
Resources are available to learn more, teach students, or host your own event to celebrate Biological Diversity Day:
Booklet
Poster & Logos
Teaching Resources
Fact Sheets
2008-04-12
April 24-26, San Francisco, CA
Throughout Earth Day Week, April 22-26, 2008 in San Francisco, California, the Ecocity World Summit (7th International Ecocity Conference) will be convening an international community of inspired change-makers; courageous individuals who are addressing problems of the world's environment with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable, ecologically healthy and socially just.
The International Ecocity Conference Series brings together the key innovators, decision makers, technologists, businesses and organizations shaping the conversation around ecological and sustainable city, town and village design, planning and development. We intend to put these issues on the economic and environmental agenda for 2008 and beyond.
Ecocity World Summit 2008 Themes
* People: population, health, equity, and access
* Nature: protecting and restoring the planet’s living systems and agricultural lands
* Sustainable Development: land use, transportation, architecture and infrastructure
* Economies & Technologies: building the supporting markets, businesses and technologies
* Incentives & Support Structures: role of government, organizations, institutions and individuals
The time to act is now. Life-threatening global environmental problems and limitations on resource consumption demand a restructuring of cities and transportation systems worldwide for long-term energy efficiency and conservation. Concerned citizens in every community - in every city, town and village - must get involved in formulating and implementing new land use and transportation policies and practices, preserving agricultural lands and open space, and reclaiming natural habitat.
Please join us in San Francisco, and let’s change the world, together!
Agenda
April 22-23, Academic and Talent Scouting Sessions
April 24-26, Ecocity World Summit Main Conference
Register now.
2008-04-11
22 to 23 April 2008, Singapore
B4E, the Global Business Summit for the Environment, is the leading international conference focusing on business and the environment. B4E 2008 will highlight the most urgent environmental challenges facing the world today and discuss business-driven solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change. Important topics addressed will include resource efficiencies, renewable energies, new business models and climate strategies. Delegates will learn best practices for identifying and managing the risks posed by climate change and uncover opportunities for developing competitive advantages.
Presented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Global Compact, the second B4E – Business for the Environment Global Summit will be held in Singapore from 22 to 23 April 2008.
CEOs and senior executives from leading global companies will join leaders from government, international agencies, NGOs, and other organizations to discuss the issues, forge partnerships and explore solutions for a greener future.
This year’s event is also held in conjunction with the UNEP Champions of the Earth 2008 awards presentation at a gala dinner on 22 April 2008. The laureates of this award have spearheaded outstanding initiatives in many different areas from environmental policy to cutting-edge research, with a particular focus on sustainable development and the fight against climate change.
See full agenda.
Register now.
To follow on from the Summit and to give leaders the opportunity to take responsibility for the issues and commit to action, B4E participants are invited to take part in one of five NGO Discovery Experiences coordinated by IMPACT DTG, a B4E Summit Partner.
- Singapore – 24-26 April
- Thailand – 14-16 May
- USA – 28-30 May
- UK – 2-4 June
- Poland – 9-11 June
2008-04-08
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 27-29, 2008. Speaker applications due May 15, 2008.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
TIES is pleased to announce a public call for speakers for the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference 2008 (ESTC 2008), to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from October 27-29, 2008.
This important conference will present timely and innovative strategies for sustainable tourism development in the U.S. and Canada, and will bring together over 500 experts, industry leaders and community stakeholders from across the region.
TIES is working with a diverse international expert advisory committee to select the ESTC 2008 speakers, who are industry leaders and innovators actively implementing strategies for sustainable change.
If you would like to play a role in this important event by showcasing your knowledge and experience, please complete the application form now using this easy online application.
We strongly urge you to review the ESTC 2008 goals and objectives, which will serve as a basis for the speaker selection criteria.
Deadline for the ESTC 2008 speaker applications is May 15, 2008.
December 3-5, 2008, Arusha, Tanzania. Registration open.
“Making Travelers’ PhilanthropySM Work for Development, Business, and Conservation”
The Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development (CESD), a nonprofit research institution based in Washington D.C and at Stanford University, is organizing an international conference on Travelers’ PhilanthropySM. By bringing participants together in Arusha, Tanzania, December 3-5, 2008, CESD aspires to promote and strengthen this emerging form of development assistance generated by travelers and the tourism industry.
CESD’s Travelers’ PhilanthropySM program promotes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the travel industry, and encourages individual businesses and their travelers to give “time, talent, and treasure” to support social service and conservation projects in host communities. This is an increasingly important source of development assistance for communities located near tourism destinations.
2008 Travelers’ PhilanthropySM Global Conference
Tanzania, a world leader in ecotourism, and Arusha as the gateway to Mt. Kilimanjaro and the northern safari circuit including the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, provide an ideal venue for this conference. The Tanzania conference builds upon the initial international Travelers’ PhilanthropySM conference held at Stanford University in the USA in 2004.
The three-day conference in Arusha will bring together 200-300 practitioners from socially responsible tourism businesses, experts in the field of sustainable tourism and philanthropy, community based organizations and global and regional NGOs doing development work, the United Nations and other development agencies, philanthropic foundations, government, and the media. A growing number of leading tourism businesses, organizations, and international agencies are co-sponsoring this important conference.
The Travelers’ PhilanthropySM Conference 2008 will provide a venue for collective learning and exchange among the group of global participants. It will facilitate discussion of the tools and capacity needed for effectively running and evaluating community projects. A goal is to move Travelers’ PhilanthropySM from a mere set of ideals to applied best practices.
More generally, the conference will build media and public interest in socially responsible travel. The conference will include presentations on some of the leading Travelers’ PhilanthropySM initiatives around the world. It will also offer a range of optional safaris before and after the event, hosted by leading East Africa tour operators that include visits to community and conservation projects.
Register Now! Early Bird price- $395, After August 1, 2008- $495
2008-04-02
2-9 July 2008, Chitose City, Japan for youth 13 to 17 years of age. Deadline: Thursday, 10 April 2008.
This year, the Junior 8 (J8) Summit will be held from 2-9 July 2008 in Chitose City, Japan. Young people from G8 and non-G-8 countries will have the opportunity to speak out on issues that affect them. The topics to be discussed are:
- Climate change and global warming
- Poverty and development
- Child survival, infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS
More about last year's Summit can be found here.
In addition to the teams of four young people from each of the G8 countries, the Japanese Government hosting the G8 Summit 2008 has invited UNICEF to select seven young people from developing and Least Developed Countries to participate.
Here are the criteria for the selection process:
- On July 10 2008, you should be between 13 to 17 years of age.
- You should be involved in projects and programmes supported by UNICEF or UNICEF partners that address the themes of J8 Summit.
- You should come from a country in one of the the seven UNICEF regions: Eastern and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa, South Asia, Eastern Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, or Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- You should be willing and able to discuss how participating the the J8 Summit and joining the J8 community will inform your existing work and your plans for the future.
If you are interested in participating in the Junior 8 Summit or have any questions, please contact Sarah Lea Ansel (slansel@unicef.org), Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP), UNICEF-HQ.
The deadline for the selection process of participants from non-G8 countries is on Thursday, 10 April 2008.
Please pass on this information to other young people in your community, school, young people's clubs, or organizations in your area.
2008-03-28
April 29-30, 2008, Boston MA
The national conversation about sustainability has reached a fever pitch. While the debate rages about what it means to build a cleaner, greener, more sustainable future, the window for effective action – to address climate change, save entire ecosystems, and reduce global poverty – is quickly passing. What opportunities for action lie before us? What innovative solutions can we identify and deploy – now?
The Ceres Conference 2008: Building Leadership, Creating Solutions comes at a pivotal moment. National elections are looming, and with them the promise of forward-thinking climate and energy policies that might enable the U.S. to regain global leadership. But at the same time that we focus on policy solutions, we must also seize market-based opportunities that integrate sustainability more deeply into corporate decision-making.
The annual Ceres conference is a unique gathering of corporate, environmental, investor, governance, and labor leaders who share a collective vision of sustainability and capital markets functioning side by side. Together, we will identify the immediate approaches and tools for translating talk into action.
Don’t miss it! Show your leadership! Join us in Boston for the Ceres Conference 2008. Register now.
Ceres (pronounced “series”) is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.
Mission: Integrating sustainability into capital markets for the health of the planet and its people.
2008-03-24
Registration is open for October 22-25, 2008 Conference in Camden, Maine
Pop!Tech 2008 Conference: Scarcity and Abundance
For the twelfth year, the Pop!Tech Conference will again convene a network of 600 remarkable thinkers, doers, leaders and global change agents in science, technology, social innovation, business, environmentalism, globalization, media, education, and many other fields for a four-day exploration of ideas shaping the future.
This year, we will pay particular attention to the 21st century dynamics between systems based on scarcity and those based on abundance, in areas ranging from digital social networks to environmentalism, from biology to business, from peacemaking to politics. We’ll chart the core scarcities that humanity will face in this century, and how a wealth of new innovations, new bottom-up approaches to collaboration, and new insights into collective wisdom might hold the key to addressing them.
As always, there will be incredible performances, jaw-dropping technology demonstrations, spirited discussions, formal debates and surprises throughout. We will leave Camden with an inspired sense of our challenges, our potential, and the dynamics of positive change.
We invite you to see what others say about the Pop!Tech experience, and to register right away if you are interested.
Cost of Registration: $3,500
2008-01-18
£1 million prize fund - 29 February deadline for UK-based entries.
We’re facing one of the biggest challenges of our generation - climate change. At NESTA, we believe that encouraging people to work together will help find new ways - better ways - to tackle BIG problems, like reducing CO 2 emissions. That’s why we’ve developed a unique and exciting competition – with a £1 million prize fund - the Big Green Challenge from NESTA.
Our latest survey shows that eight of ten people think they’ve had an idea that would have a positive impact on people’s lives, but few people follow up on their idea beyond that initial moment of inspired thinking.
The Big Green Challenge is all about unleashing new ideas for reducing carbon emissions in communities. If you’ve already got an idea at the back of your mind, sharing it with other people in your group or community could be the first step to making it a reality.
You probably have some questions about entering the Challenge, which we have tried to answer in the FAQs. Please also make sure you think about the criteria and read the application instructions before you submit your application. You have until 29 February 2008 to apply. We’re looking forward to seeing some really exciting ideas coming in!
If you have any questions about the Challenge that you can’t find answers to on this website, please contact us.
Apply for the Big Green Challenge
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