Got a recipe for leftovers? Join the Love Your Leftovers competition and submit your recipes until May 26, 2013. Love Your Leftovers is a competition that asks global citizens to show their love for leftovers, and submit a recipe that they use to clean out the fridge. Launched by GreenUp! the Love Your Leftovers competition’s overall winning recipe and contributor will be announced on World Environment Day on 5 June 2013 — with a top mystery first
Many regional campaigns have recently been launched, echoing to the challenge of food waste at the national level and in major sectors, including hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and households. Perhaps surprisingly, one-third of all unused food in developed countries is wasted by households. The Think.Eat.Save campaign of the Save Food Initiative, is a partnership between UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Messe Düsseldorf, and in support of the UN Secretary-General’s Zero Hunger Challenge,
Submission for abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the First International Conference on Global Food Security is until May 10, 2013. The conference which aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative research methods arising from interdisciplinary research will be held on September 29-October 2, 2013 at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. The conference will address food production and access, and the trade-offs between competing environmental, economic or social objectives and outcomes.
The iChange (Inspire Change) video challenge invites students from all over the world to create a 30-second video ad to raise awareness about climate change, encourage action, and/or propose potential solutions. The competition, launched by Connect4Climate (C4C) and TVN, is open to students 18 to 35 years old, individuals or teams (max. 5 persons). Prizes will be awarded at the International GrandPrix Advertising Strategies event in Milan, Italy on May 29, 2013 and the winning video
The Open Society Foundation is looking for photography projects on social justice or human rights issues that provide concrete ways for photographers, organizations and their target audiences to create a positive social impact. Five to eight grants will be provided, ranging from $10,000 to $30,000. However, funds cannot be used to shoot new imagery. Photographers are expected to devise an innovative and effective way of using an existing body of work as
Turin, Italy, will host the 8th Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It will be held on 6-7 May 2013 at Telecom Italia’s innovation laboratories. Following the successful events held between 2008 and 2012 in Kyoto, London, Quito, Seoul, Cairo, Accra and Montreal, this years’ edition will be dedicated to the theme of Smart Sustainable Cities and will focus on the need for smart green ICT
The Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) is calling for abstracts for its 22nd Annual Conference on July 4-7, 2013, Melia Purosani Hotel, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Deadline for submission is on April 30, 2013. The theme of the conference is ‘Transformational Communication and the New Asia’. The conference proposes to take stock of Asian media and communication studies, keeping in mind the challenges and opportunities arising out of globalisation, new media
You are invited to participate in an interactive conversation on ending poverty on April 19, 2013, 11:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m. EDT (15:00-16:10 GMT) at the Online and World Bank Group Headquarters in Washington, DC. Global Voices on Poverty will bring together world leaders, opinion makers, and a global online audience to discuss what it takes to end poverty. The discussion will be with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. You
The United Nations Climate Change secretariat is calling for women-led activities that address climate change to be selected and showcased under an initiative called Momentum for Change: Women for Results. These “lighthouse activities” will demonstrate measurable impact on the ground, and the potential for replicability and scaleability at the local, national and international levels. Momentum for Change: Women for Results is implemented with the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The deadline
The 2013 World Social Forum (WSF) took place from 26 to 30 March 2013, in Tunisia. The World Social Forum is an open space where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society debate on contemporary issues such as biodiversity, climate change, ethnic and cultural diversity, colonialism, militarism and relations between labor and production. A delegation of more than 30 journalists of community radios from Tunisia, MENA, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America
