{"id":1525,"date":"2005-08-10T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/08\/10\/weve-got-a-winner\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T13:24:00","slug":"weve-got-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/weve-got-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Got a Winner…"},"content":{"rendered":"
First, apologies for my absence yesterday… another meeting day. It suddenly dawned on me also that school starts in less than two weeks — yikes — when I go on vacation, I really<\/em> go on vacation…<\/p>\n When I posted on Monday about photographer Edward Burtynsky, I had no idea that he was one of the recipients of TED<\/a>‘s 2004 Prizes. Thanks to Anna for pointing that out, as well as noting the unique nature of the prizes: promotion of three wishes<\/a> by the recipient. <\/p>\n I must admit — TED is one of those programs that has fallen through the cracks of my attention span, but after spending a little time on their website, I realize that was a major oversight on my part. So, in order to make up for my ignorance, I’d like to offer up space on sustainablog for addressing the first of Edward’s wishes: “To encourage a massive and productive worldwide conversation about sustainable living.” The plan of execution involves promoting WorldChanging<\/a> (something I’m happy to do, obviously) as part of a media campaign incorporating Burtynsky’s work along with Sagemeister<\/a>‘s design. Take a look at Burtynsky’s wishes, as well as those of the other winners, U2’s Bono<\/a> and scientist Robert Fischell<\/a>, and offer your suggestions for other ways I\/we can promote the ideas that TED espouses (although I freely admit that I see no role I can play in finding cures for brain disorders…).<\/p>\n Finally, I am happy to promote WorldChanging regardless of the situation, and am grateful for their promotion of sustainablog, but, hey, WC folks, who’s a guy got to sleep with to get on your link list\/blogroll???<\/p>\n Technorati tags: photography<\/a>, awards<\/a>, TED<\/a>, sustainability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, apologies for my absence yesterday… another meeting day. It suddenly dawned on me also that school starts in less than two weeks — yikes — when I go on [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n