The Yahoo! Green Award is back for a third year at the NetSquared Conference.  Yahoo! is committed to empowering our communities to make a positive impact on the environment, and has reviewed the project submissions included in the “Environment & Energy ” Cause Area of the NetSquared Global Project Gallery on the NetSquared Web site looking for the most innovative green technology project to receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award.  And the winner is...

DatAgro Receives the Yahoo! Green Award!

Many have realized that Twitter, Facebook or any other widely used system of Status Updates could be useful for tracking possible infections and other trends, as well as having application in many other forms of group action and communication.

Sure enough, within an hour of posting, a friend over at the Brennan Center sent this link: http://www.google.org/flutrends/

There's only about 24 hours left to make sure your green mobile project is eligible for the Yahoo! Green Award! 

As part of this year's N2Y4 mobile theme, Yahoo! is looking for innovative uses of mobile technology that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. Using Yahoo! APIs is a plus but not necessary.

The most innovative green technology project will receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award.

For this year's Yahoo! Green Award, Yahoo! looked for a “green mashup” that would inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. After reading through the project submissions in the “Environment” Cause Area of the NetSquared Project Gallery, they chose Live Climate to be this year's Yahoo! Green Award recipient.

Below is an e-interview with it's co-Directors, Nick Handler and Matt Evans (who is also the Founder).

1. How does Live Climate work? Where did the idea come from?

Live Climate is a non-profit, online marketplace for carbon offset projects that do more than just reduce greenhouse gases - they also help fight poverty, create jobs in poor communities and protect local ecosystems. We identify these offset projects and then connect consumers to them through our website - www.liveclimate.org. We provide information and media on the projects that describe how they work and how they positively impact low-income communities and local environments. The consumer can choose the project, or projects that they'd like to support and purchase offsets directly from them.

We have a winner for the Yahoo! Green Award - Live Climate!

Last year, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.

This year Yahoo! looked for an innovative “green mashup” that would inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. The winner was chosen from the project submissions included in the “Environment” Cause Area of the Project Gallery on the NetSquared web site.

Here's a statement from the folks at Yahoo! about why they chose Live Climate

"We chose Live Climate because they are using the internet in an incredibly innovative way - connecting people through investments in carbon offsets to relieve poverty AND improve the environment. We are excited to award them $5,000 in Yahoo! Search Marketing keywords to help them inspire people to take action on climate change in a very personal and empowering way. Yahoo! is looking forward to future mashups on this site that will allow carbon offset buyers to connect more directly with project owners in developing countries."

You can learn more about Live Climate on their web site, www.liveclimate.org, and get involved with their work by signing up for their newsletter, or making a donation of time or money.

 

Net Tuesday SF Vlogger, Ross Chapman, posted videos of the presentations from our February and May Net Tuesdays on NetSquared's Blip.tv Channel:

Building Nonprofit Online Community with MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Groups and Upcoming
How Nonprofits & Educators Can Use Wikis

Check 'em out and help us thank Ross for volunteering his time by giving his web site a click.

Last year, NetSquared Featured Project, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.

This year, Yahoo! is looking for innovative “green mashups” that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment.

Yahoo! will review the project submissions included in the “Environment” Cause Area of the NetSquared Project Gallery. Using Yahoo! APIs is a plus, but not necessary. The most innovative green mashup will receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award.

Did you know that reuse groups, like last year's 3rd place NetSquared Innovation Award winner, Freecycle, are the most trafficked on Yahoo! Groups?

The folks at the Yahoo! Developer Network put together a great video about the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. (Thanks guys! ) You can watch it above, or on the Yahoo! Developer Network Theater. You can also subscribe to the Yahoo! Developer Network Theater via iTunes.

Join us at NewsTools2008, April 30-May 3, at Yahoo! Sunnyvale, a three-day conceptual mashup where journalists will work with technologists to create new tools for journalism that matters. The U.S. news media is changing fast. Strip away the legacy platforms, and what remains of journalism that is needed to support participatory democracy and community? At NewsTools2008, we'll ground you on the way news has been manufacturered until now, we'll overview how technology is disrupting the old ways; then we'll ask you to work for up to two days with journalists to build new systems that engage with all the best tools avaiable. The result we seek: The launch of at least a half-dozen new machine-based systems that move journalism outside of the traditional boxes and into our participatory, crowdsource culture.

See: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv
or: http://www.newstools2008.org

Registration discounts and stipends availble for day-trippers . . . email for details: Bill Densmore, the media giraffe project at umass amherst
413-458-8001 / densmore@mediagiraffe.org