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New prison work featured in TED Talk
Recently published prison project images
Our images of the Sustainable Prisons Project were recently published in two magazines. The Winter 2009 issue of Nature Conservancy leads off their Newsfront section with “Green Rehab: Inmates Fuel a Prairie’s Restoration.”
And Mother Jones’ January/February 2010 issue features an article by Beth Schwartzapfel titled “The Green Mile: Can turning prisons into hothouses of sustainability pay off for everyone?”
Nau awards us $10,000 Grant for Change
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve been awarded Nau’s inaugural Grant for Change! Nau, a hip little clothing company based in Portland, Oregon, will support our climate change work over the next year with a $10,000 grant. This year’s award began with an open nomination process that brought in 294 people or projects over six weeks. (It was an inspiring list of independent movers and shakers including our friends photographer Tim Matsui and Derek and Michele Long from Sustainable Connections.) The pool was winnowed down in part by popular vote – thanks to all of you who signed in to give our project the thumbs up! You can view the top 10 finalists and learn more about G4C on Nau’s Web site.
We’ll announce many more details about this new partnership over the coming weeks. If you’re in New York, join us for the kick-off party on November 21, 2009.
A big thank you to all the folks at Nau!
READ MORE:
Grant for Change official site
Good things are happening: the Grant for Change – Nau’s blog announcement
Documentary Team Win Nau’s Inaugural $10,000 Grant 4 Change – Treehugger.com
Filmmakers Win Nau’s Grant for Change, Totally Deserve It – Good Magazine blog
Seattle artists win first Nau award – 4Cutlure Blog
Documentary Team Win Nau’s Inaugural $10,000 Grant 4 Change – Sports One Source
News from Nau – Examiner.com
Documentary Team Win Nau’s Inaugural $10,000 Grant 4 Change – Earth-Stream
Congratulations Benj and Sara – Ranger Mike Designs / Michael Lang
Nau Grant: Benj Drummond and Sara Joy Steele win $10k – The Chronicles / Tim Matsui
Facing Climate Change Wins “Grant For Change” – Blue Earth blog
Nau: Encouraging Change, One Grant At A Time – Green by Design
Benjamin Drummond Awarded Nau’s Grant for Change – Aurora Photos News
The future of storytelling?
Recently, we were lucky enough to spend a long-weekend in the North Cascades. Tucked beneath Sourdough Ridge, lined with its first dusting of snow for the season, Benj and I were co-teaching a workshop for North Cascades Institute called Will Write for Change: Communication Tools and Techniques for Activists. The team of instructors also included Pulitzer Prize winning author William Dietrich; Sam Knox, a guru on e-mail alerts and newsletters from One/Northwest; and senior researcher and blogger extraordinaire for Sightline Institute, Eric de Place. It was humbling to be in their company and also amongst so many inspiring participants, all working to make a difference in their own ways.
The night that everyone arrived, Benj and I were invited to share our work from Facing Climate Change and the next morning we presented more generally on multimedia storytelling. After the workshop, our new friend Eric wrote a blog post about us and the medium on Sightline Daily. Here’s an excerpt from “The Future of Storytelling:”
“It’s not as if Drummond and Steele invented multimedia – in fact, high-quality multimedia is getting cheaper and easier to produce all the time – just that they seem to be mastering an art form as it matures. Most importantly, they’ve got the knack that the best storytellers have for enlivening a scene and fleshing out a character, but not beating you over the head with The Moral Of The Story.”
What an honor! Thanks, Eric.
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