Nobel prize winner and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced a new $2 million student contest to foster clean energy innovation, known as the National University Clean Energy Business Challenge. The idea is to create a network of six regional competitions for student energy inventors, and the winners will compete for a National Grand Prize in early summer 2012. The ... Read More »
You are invited to participate in Greening the Apple’s first photography contest. The topic is, “What does sustainability look like in New York City?” Pick your best work, submit your photos easily online, and have a chance at some exposure and recognition on our blog. Photography is story-telling. Share your stories with the rest of us. Your deadline is midnight, August 12, ... Read More »
This September, NOFA-NY will sponsor its 2nd Annual NY Locavore Challenge. The NY Locavore Challenge is a first of its kind, month-long campaign aimed at engaging consumers across the state in actively supporting the local organic food movement. The Locavore challenge starts with the theory “vote with your dollar,” and takes it a few steps further, by appealing concerned citizens to participate in a ... Read More »
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York State (MTA) recently announced a new apps contest called MTA App Quest. The contest is designed to promote apps that cover a much broader system than just New York City and spark interest around the MTA API and newly released datasets. The MTA App Quest is the latest chapter in the MTA’s transformation from a relatively closed agency ... Read More »
Nominations are now being accepted for the MAS Livable City Awards. Every year, through our annual awards, we recognize outstanding individuals, groups, places and events that have made New York a more livable city. Beginning this year, these awards, now named the MAS Livable City Awards, will be celebrated at a special ceremony and reception on October 13, 2011, during the first evening ... Read More »
“Sleep on it. Store in it.” That’s the concept behind LA-based Viesso‘s stylin’ bamboo Buden bed collection. Built from sustainable bamboo and FSC-certified birch, this multifunctional green design is a great way to transform your bedroom from blah to breathtakingly modern. Viesso is a small green company looking to make the world a more sustainable place, and they’re also one ... Read More »
The 8th Annual Sustainable Transport Award, created by the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, is given annually to the city that made most progress over the year to increase mobility for all residents while reducing transportation greenhouse and air pollution emissions and improving safety and access for cyclists and pedestrians. The awards are presented in January in Washington, D.C. ... Read More »
Calling all NYC art /architecture/ design students: GreenHomeNYC is searching for industrious, creative and environmentally conscious designers to create sustainable furniture for their public lounge space at this Fall’s Williamsburg block party, The NEW New York. Ten selected finalists will have access to a wealth of free, reclaimed materials donated by Show Biz Recycles and Build it Green, a jury ... Read More »
Through By the City / For the City, the Institute for Urban Design is inviting architects, planners,artists, designers, and students around the world to participate in a collaborative re-imagining of New York City’s public realm. From June 1st to July 14th, 2011, you can peruse more than 500 ideas submitted by the general public for improving the city’s public spaces, ... Read More »
Organized by the Architectural League in partnership with the Museum of the City of New York Media Sponsor: Architizer On the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of the 1811 Commissioners’ Plan for New York, the foundational document that established the Manhattan street plan from Houston Street to 155th Street, the Architectural League invites architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and other design ... Read More »
Recyclebank, the company that rewards people for taking everyday green actions with discounts and deals from local and national businesses, today launched the Green Your Vacation Contest, a nationwide challenge designed to inspire people to make eco-friendly decisions while on vacation. The Contest, which runs from today until July 31, allows Recyclebank members to learn tips for making their summer ... Read More »
Zumbox, a digital postal mail provider, just launched a new contest and participants will have a chance to win $1 million. Yes, a million dollar grand prize is up for grabs. I was first introduced to Zumbox in 2009 when MNN blogger Karl Burkhart wrote about this new 21st century postal service product. Basically, Zumbox securely digitizes your mail. If you ... Read More »
This month Method and Dwell are teaming up to give one lucky designer a year’s supply of Method cleaning products! They’re challenging you to dazzle them with imaginative, innovative, and inspiring designs for upcycling, recycling, rethinking, and deconstructing empty Method product bottles. To enter, all you have to do is complete an entry form here, and submit one photograph, drawing ... Read More »
Threadless and The Climate Project have teamed up for a T-shirt design contest. Use your creativity to inspire eco-activism — and win cash and a iPad 2. “An Inconvenient Truth” fans: It’s time to put your creativity to work — and design a creative eco-themed T-shirt. Threadless, a company best known for crowdsourcing its T-shirt designs, has teamed up with ... Read More »
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