Design a logo for Earth Week
(CNS): The National Trust for the Cayman Islands is inviting Years 10 , 11, 12 students to try their hand at designing the Earth Week 2009 logo. The winning logo, which will be selected by public vote at the Agricultural Fair on 25 February, will be used in promotional materials for Earth Week, other events and will be used as the design for the Earth Week 2009 T-shirt. Entries should reflect this year’s theme: “Butterflies of the Cayman Islands”.
Aspiring artists should keep in mind that the T-shirt design will be limited to 3 or 4 colours. The winner will win a day trip to Little Cayman for two. Entrants should submit their designs to the National Trust Visitors’ Centre in the Dart Park on South Church Street. or electronically to info@nationaltrust.org.ky in pdf format by the Friday 20 February deadline. The maximum size for the logo/shirt design is 8 inches wide by 11 inches tall. The Earth Week Committee reserves the right to reject any submission for any reason.
The winning design. Entrants should include a daytime phone number and email address with the submission. All submissions for this contest become the property of the National Trust and will not be returned. Designs must contain all original material and may not include copyright material. The organizers reserve the right to modify the design as necessary to meet their needs.
For more information call 949-0121.The winner willbe notified on or before 2 March.
Category: Science and Nature
We are missing the point and the boat on the opportunity that the down turn is presenting.
It is disappointing to see that our leaders are not getting it – look at all the money they have committed to try and kick start the old consumer base paradigm that got us in to this dilemma and which is relentlessly driving our CO2 upwards.(Climate change envoy calls for state aid to create low-carbon economy http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/25/climate-change-summit-global-international)
You can see howit happens, with the mad panic that has engulfed us all as we stare over the cliff at the gaping depression sucking us in.
This year is it!
If we don’t switch our bail out packages and infrastructure spending towards obtaining the target for 100% CO2 reduction. then we are hosed for sure. There won’t be a second chance. We will have wasted the money, the political effort and the time (the oh so precious time) correcting the more urgent at the expense of the most essential.(Climate change in 2009: the defining issue http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/climate-change-in-2009-the-defining-issue)
We won’t make it below 3degrees then! And that means we are looking at +5degrees eventually. (I think we are probably past the tipping point at this time, but lets not go there until we have to)
It must be fate that Obama arrived at this moment. If he is able to realize that this is the most crucial point in the history of mankind and is able to engage the international effort needed, then there is hope.
God bless America.