Craftster Launches Creativity 350 Contest to Promote Climate Change Awareness.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Craftster (http://www.craftster.org), the premier Internet community for crafting enthusiasts, has launched the Creativity 350 contest to draw creative energy and attention to 350.org's goal of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. to 350 parts per million parts per million mg/kg or ml/l; see ppm. to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The Creativity 350 contest is actually two contests in one: A 350-themed craft contest and a 350-themed T-shirt design contest. For the craft contest, Craftster members are invited to design a project that creatively expresses the importance of the number 350, using any crafting technique. For the T-shirt contest, entrants may create an original T-shirt design that creatively expresses the importance of the number 350. "Over the years I've noticed that people who are passionate about crafts and DIY DIY abbr. do-it-yourself DIY or d.i.y. Brit, Austral & NZ do-it-yourself DIY abbr DIY do it yourself a DIY shop/job. lifestyle also tend to share a common ideology of being aware of -- and wanting to change -- what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. in the world around them," said Leah Kramer, Craftster's founder. "So a partnership like this between the craft community and 350.org is ideal. Crafty types can funnel their favorite pastime into a cause that they care about, and the hope is that it will truly make a difference." Entries will be accepted from July 15 to Aug. 15, 2008, with the winners of each contest being selected on Sept. 8. Valuable craft- and green-themed prizes will be awarded to the two winners. A complete list of the prizes can be found at the contest Web site: http://www.craftster.org/350. The winning T-shirt design will also be utilized by 350.org on clothing that will help the organization create awareness of its goal. Co-founded by environmentalist environmentalist a person with an interest and knowledge about the interaction of humans and animals with the environment. and author Bill McKibben Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. , 350.org centers itself around the number 350 to provide focus on a clear, concise goal for solving the climate crisis. "The most recent science tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, we will cause huge and irreversible irreversible (ir´ēvur´seb  l),adj incapable of being reversed or returned to the original state. damage to the earth," said McKibben. "The growing involvement of the arts in this fight is one of the best pieces of news we have. Since science has largely done its job and given us both a powerful warning and now a definitive number to work with, it's up to the rest of us to do our part." In addition to Craftster.org and 350.org, partners include Etsy.com, CraftZine.com, ThriftyFun.com and BurdaStyle.com. This unique partnership between the environmental community and the crafting community will bring out the creative energy of people around the world to help spread this important number, 350, in inspiring new ways. ABOUT CRAFTSTER and NAMEMEDIA Craftster is among the largest and most highly respected arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. community Web sites. Founded in 2003 as a repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. for hip, off-beat, crafty do-it-yourself projects, members can show off current projects, ask advice on future crafting works, and get inspiration for new artistic endeavors. Special emphasis is placed on projects that involve recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. , reusing and repurposing existing objects. Craftster is one of NameMedia's online communities. NameMedia is a leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted Web sites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The company's Web site development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. More information is available at www.namemedia.com |
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