Filed under: Community Empowerment | Tags: Essay Competition, Essay Contest, REV Spokesmom Contest, REV-LIFE, Spokesperson Contest

We’re looking for five active moms who make a difference in the lives of their families and in their communities to share their story. This is a participative promotion that will yield a $1,000 cash prize plus lots of perks and product. Oh, and REV is healthy – naturally derived as opposed to the synthetically manufactured Epsom salt on the market. (it smells good, too)
Filed under: Clients In The News, Education, Events, General Media, Technology | Tags: ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Humberto Diez Villa, Monica Pelaez, Promethean Activclassroom, Virginia Torres Montoya
A team of Colombian education officials in Atlanta this week for the Americas Competitiveness Forum paid a visit to Parkside Elementary Wednesday to see how the APS school uses the latest technology in the classroom.

Dr. Humberto Diez Villa, education secretary for culture of the Colombian state of Antioquia, watches as students in Michele Alford’s fourth-grade class use their Promethean Activote devises to respond to questions about sentence types.
Filed under: Education, Environment, General Media, Technology | Tags: Energy Map, Futures Map, Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy Map, Worldchanging
Gratitude to Sarah at Worldchanging for putting this together:
As renewable energy technologies become more competitive, investing in them is becoming a more viable venture. Yet, uncertainties about cost and ROI are still keeping some investors at bay.
Wind blows, rain falls and the sun shines, but differently at different times and locations, making wind, hydroelectric and solar power dependent upon weather and climate systems. A new Northwest-based energy efficiency company, 3TIER, is using their science skills and computer smarts to remove some of that guesswork.
