Thursday, November 01, 2007

Ben & Jerrys Climate Change College

Are you aged 18-30 ?



Ben &
Jerry's have developed the Climate Change College, and are now accepting applications from 18-30's with ideas
on how to tackle climate change. The prize is a business mentoring
programme (worth €21,000 per student) and a €7,000 monetary grant to
launch a unique project. The programme is largely virtual with a 1-1 mentor, except for a 3 day
workshop in Brussels in February and a two week scientific field trip
to the Arctic in April. All travel is covered by Ben & Jerry’s and
is offset through Cool Your Jets which invests in renewable energy
projects.

Read more about it via the "i genius" website


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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Thinkmakers - King Justice

Raul Caceres (Facilitator for Menengai project) & UN Volunteer of the Year award winner has been hard at work co-founding the production company www.think-makers.com with best
friend and film-maker Miguel Herrera.

Their latest production of media with a social message, is a short documentary called :



An overview of the life of a disabled musical director who leads a
group of young adults after suffering the consequences of a brutal
civil war in Africa ... now selected for the Miami Short Film Festival &the Yahoo and Telemundo Short Film festival.

Take a look at the piece here (in English but website in Spanish)
If you like the film please support the message & vote for it by clicking the
word “vota” (vote) before November 16.

Press releases are available to send to any media
contact you might know, email Raul or Miguel on contact@think-makers.com.




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Monday, October 29, 2007

AVIF & STA Travel

Hoping to link with STA for flight discounts (anyone under 26 or student status automatically gets discounted flights) with an easy-to-book link-up planned. Nice to see STA Travel already using Facebook's massive reach.
Hold fire for more details.




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