The immense value of strong and diverse partnerships that yield benefits for forests, communities and markets across North America and around the world was evident throughout the 2010 Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) Annual Conference this week.
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Paul Casey, 2009 Shell Houston Open Champion, announced that he and his wife Jocelyn are donating $100,000 from last year’s tournament winnings to local charities through the Houston Golf Association (HGA) during a news conference on February 22nd, 2010 at the Dick Harmon Learning Center in Humble, TX.
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xpedx representatives had a busy two days providing information about green cleaning programs and supplies, answers on sustainability issues and advice to educational facility managers during the APPA Annual Conference and Exhibition held July 16–18 at the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta.
APPA 2011 is a premier event for educational facilities professionals. During the conference, facilities officers, directors and management personnel from around the world explored the latest trends, challenges and solutions within colleges and universities, K-12 grade academies and public schools, libraries, museums and other institutions of learning. More than 40 conference sessions took place, including sessions on campus sustainability practices and building maintenance.
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Brand USA, the new tourism marketing entity responsible for promoting the United States to world visitors, unveiled the USA’s first-ever comprehensive marketing campaign today during a press conference at International Pow Wow, the largest U.S. travel trade show held this week in Los Angeles. The campaign showcases the diversity of experiences available in the United States in a fresh and unexpected light, inviting visitors to “Discover this land, like never before.”
“Our goal is nothing short of rekindling the world’s love affair with the USA – the place, the spirit and the dream,” said Brand USA CEO Jim Evans. “We want to spread America’s message of welcome around the world and invite travelers to experience the limitless possibilities the United States has to offer. So we asked ourselves, ‘how can we best speak to multiple countries, across countless languages and cultures?’ We found the answer lay in the only truly universal language—music.”
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Restaurant.com CEO Cary Chessick gave away $20,000 in cash to 40 random attendees at a social media conference. Chessick\\\'s celebration, called TweetItForward, was unveiled during Internet Week New York at the inaugural Likeable U: The Social Media Movement, attended by thought leaders and industry experts. He shared his experiences about the value in the gift of giving before each randomly chosen guest was presented $500.
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McGraw-Hill Construction, Architectural Record and GreenSource today released video highlights from Innovation 2010, a conference on big and super-green buildings and cityscapes, held in New York City in October 2010. The video features sustainable projects from Dubai, Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Manitoba and South Korea.
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It has been decided at the 67th Annual Conference of the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) held from 5th to 7th of June, 2011 that Air China will play host to and chair the 68th Annual Conference of IATA and the World Civil Aviation Summit to be held in Beijing, China in 2012 – the first time that the IATA Annual Conference will take place in the country. A high profile event in the global airline industry, each year the IATA Annual Conference brings together executives and decision makers of the world’s airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers and service suppliers.
When the decision was announced, a short movie produced by Air China and entitled “Air China Takes You On A Discovery Journey To China” was played, making the forthcoming meeting in Beijing even more worth looking forward to.
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Tyrone Edward’s (Senior VP, Merck ret.) covers the key conference themes with his keynote “Boost your sales productivity in today’s challenging pharmaceutical market”. We have put the full presentation up for free viewing.
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Public relations and communications professionals imagine, create and inspire daily. How do you keep that process fresh? Incorporate the latest tools, technologies and strategies? And, reach previously unrealized levels of success? Learn how by registering today for the PRSA 2011 International Conference. Gain from the perspectives of CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, “Trust Agents” author Chris Brogan, X Prize CEO Peter Diamandis and Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde. Share in the experiences of more than 200 experts on everything from social media to reputation management to measurement. And glean unique insights from professionals from around the world — All at the largest annual gathering of public relations professionals.
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Avon Global Ambassador & Honorary Chairman of the Avon Foundation for Women Reese Witherspoon and Avon Chairman and CEO Andrea Jung today awarded four global non-governmental organizations with the inaugural Avon Communications Awards: Speaking Out About Violence Against Women for their campaigns that are bringing attention to the need to end violence against women. Witherspoon and Jung presented the awards, funded by the Avon Foundation, at the 2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters in Washington, D.C., which brought together more than 1,400 advocates, activists and leaders from 96 countries to collaborate to change attitudes about such violence. The awards are part of the Avon Speak Out Against Domestic Violence program, which has donated nearly $40 million globally to end violence against women.
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What makes the Chevy Volt run? Find out during DESIGN West, March 26-29, when UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry’s decision makers, and Avnet Express, the e-Commerce engine for Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), reveal the design secrets behind the Volt following their Drive for Innovation’s Teardown of the vehicle.
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Avon Global Ambassador & Honorary Chairman of the Avon Foundation for Women Reese Witherspoon and Avon Chairman and CEO Andrea Jung today awarded four global non-governmental organizations with the inaugural Avon Communications Awards: Speaking Out About Violence Against Women for their campaigns that are bringing attention to the need to end violence against women. Witherspoon and Jung presented the awards, funded by the Avon Foundation, at the 2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters in Washington, D.C., which brought together more than 1,400 advocates, activists and leaders from 96 countries to collaborate to change attitudes about such violence. The awards are part of the Avon Speak Out Against Domestic Violence program, which has donated nearly $40 million globally to end violence against women.
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