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GRAMMY Award-Winning Artists to Headline Live Earth Run for Water Events

MORE ARTISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON...

Los Angeles and Atlanta Talent Announced for April 18th

We are excited to announce that two-time GRAMMY Award-winner Melissa Etheridge, and multi-platinum three-time GRAMMY Award-winner Rob Thomas, will perform live at the April 18th Los Angeles and Atlanta events respectively. The largest worldwide water initiative on record to help combat the global water crisis, the Dow Live Earth Run for Water is a series of 6km run/walks (the average distance many women and children walk every day to get water), culminating with water education villages and live musical performances.

Click here for more info and click here to register.

Live Earth's Fundraise for Water Giveaway

Donate to Global Water Challenge or set up a fundraising page, and you might win a trip for you and a friend to the Dow Live Earth Run for Water on April 18th in NY or LA.

How can you enter?

1. Make a donation to Global Water Challenge between March 1st-April 8th 2010 at https://donate.globalwaterchallenge.org/page/contribute/liveearth1.
   Donate any amount to Global Water Challenge and you're automatically entered.
   $25 buys one classroom of children clean water for a year, keeping them healthy and in school.

2. Set up your own personal fundraising page between March 1st-April 8th 2010.
   Set up a page to raise money from friends and family and you're automatically entered.
   You will go through a process of entering your information and will have the opportunity to ask your friends and family to donate. Set a fundraising goal and bring clean water to children who need it.
   $250 can provide a school with clean water for two years!

The winner will receive a trip for 2 including:

• Round trip airfare to New York or Los Angeles. (whichever location is closest to you)
• Admission to Dow Live Earth Run For Water event in NY or LA
• 2 nights hotel accommodations
• Ground transportation in NY or LA
• Carbon credits will be provided that offset the impact of your travel

You must be a resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and 18 years or older to enter.
You must make a donation or set up a fundraising page between March 1st- April 8th 2010 to be eligible to win!
The Winner will be notified on or around April 9, 2010. For full contest rules, click here: http://liveearth.org/rules. Good luck!

Click here to enter!

Join or Host one of Dozens of Friends of Live Earth Events on April 18th

If there are no major Live Earth events in your area then click here to register your own! Registering an event with Friends of Live Earth is a great way to involve your friends, family, school, or community in global, environmental action to help solve the global water crisis. After registering, you'll gain access to a package of background materials, event guidelines, and suggestions for how to host a green event.

One of the amazing Friends of Live Earth Run for Water events will take place in Tanzania, a country where the water crisis hits especially close to home. On April 18th, they will be having a 6km walk and a 15 kms run with the start and finish point from the New National Stadium which hosted the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. This important event will feature live musical performances and water education activities in an effort to ignite a massive global movement to put an end to this epidemic.

Click here to read more about this event. Click here to register your own!

You can help solve the world water crisis by participating in the April 18, 2010 Dow Live Earth Run for Water.

Sign up now at http://liveearth.org/run.

Run/walk registration is now officially open for the following cities (click on city name to get to registration page):

NORTH AMERICA - San Diego, Los Angeles, Westlake Village, CA, Loma Linda, Mariposa, CA, Dinuba, CA, Seattle, Ellensburg, WA, Vancouver, Kelowna, BC, Kamloops, BC, Minneapolis, Houston, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Bristol, WI, Milwaukee, Canton, MI, Midland, MI, Toronto, Cincinnati, Louisville, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Bar Harbor, ME, Martha's Vineyard, Marlborough, MA, New York City, East Hampton, Norristown, PA, Washington, D.C., Rocky Mount, NC, Chapel Hill, Atlanta, Orlando, Mexico City
CENTRAL AMERICA / CARIBBEAN / SOUTH AMERICA - Panama City, Santo Domingo, Tortola, Bermuda, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Paraguay
UK / EUROPE - London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Berlin, Brienz, Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Tarragona, Milan, Arezzo, Sarajevo, Zagreb
MIDDLE EAST / ASIA / AUSTRALIA - Bodrum, , Mongolia, Karachi, Katmandu, New Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, Bali, Chonqing, China, Hong Kong, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Melbourne
AFRICA - Cape Town, Benin, Sierra Leone, Cabo Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Uganda, Mauritius, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Cameroon, Botswana

If an event is not yet listed for a city near you, we invite you to host a Friends of Live Earth event, or check back at liveearth.org/run and sign up to find out when more cities are announced.

Thanks and be sure to visit us soon!

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TrashTalk

TrashTalk is a new initiative from the SENSEable City Lab and inspired by the NYC Green Initiative that's studying waste management. Specifically, the effort seeks to use technology to understand our removal chain as well our supply chain.

The effort uses hundreds of small, smart, location aware tags to examine how we get rid of waste. In the end, the minute details could provide great amounts of data that could yield a more sustainable future.

As we move forward, understanding waste will be a critical component of green life (image by Nevada Tumbleweed). A recent CauseCast article noted there are three kinds of waste:

1. Primary packaging is what we handle as consumers.

2. Secondary packaging is the term used for the larger cases or boxes that group quantities of primary packaged goods for distribution.

3. Transit packaging refers to the wooden boards, plastic wrapping, and containers that load, transport, and unload these goods.

Recycling has been a past topic, and one that can seriously impact our carbon footprint. In fact, we already see a savings of 300 million tons of carbon a year in the U.S.

There's so much focus on producing new sustainable products it seems like we forget how important it is to be mindful about what we already consume. I like it when I see initiatives like this with a robot that helps to intelligently recycle plastics. This seems to be the best of both worlds.

What do you think? How can we best address reusing our current products for long-term sustainability.