Re: [ClimateInsider] tcktcktck announces the Rio Blogger Prize

[chaitanya kumar]

I am not sure if I forwarded this to you guys already, but it will be so cool if you guys can participate and even win this :) Love to see one of us make it to Rio.

Cheers

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From: joshua robert wiese <joshua...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:34 AM
Subject: [ClimateInsider] tcktcktck announces the Rio Blogger Prize
To: climateinsider <climate...@googlegroups.com>

tcktcktck announces the  Rio Blogger Prize

Dear Bloggers

As you may be surmising from recent news, we are in the midst of a war for the hearts and minds of people around the world on the issue of climate change. A well-funded climate denial machine has, for the past decade, slowly built domination for key climate-related terms on search engines, resulting in widespread misinformation. According to a recent study by Yale University, approximately half of relevant search results on Google are published by skeptics, and there is a reason they rank so high. A typical climate skeptic article can have as many as 8,500 inbound links, while a typical science-based article has an average of only 45. But we can do something about it and we need your help.

TckTckTck, a global alliance of 300+ nonprofits in over 100 countries, recently relaunched the TckTckTck.org website, and we want to help turn the tide by aggregating and publishing the best climate content from around the world (see this video walk-through: http://youtu.be/_gMFKzAIY7k). We want your participation! As an added incentive, you could be eligible for a fellowship to attend the Rio+20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this June. Here’s how to enter:

Fill out this simple Rio Blogger Prize applicant form: http://bit.ly/rio-prize. You'll receive instructions for submitting a blog you have written related to climate change, the Rio Summit or one of TckTckTck’s 10 core campaign issues. You could then be eligible for our “Rio Blogger Prize” – an opportunity to join TckTckTck’s delegation at the Rio+20 Summit. Our partners are working to ensure that big things happen in Rio this year. This is a rare chance for you to join our team and be part of the action (with expenses covered).

There’s more. We are also developing a weekly overview of key upcoming meetings, events and issues that our partners & peers are tracking, called the Fresh Air Brief (FAB). With this blogger-focused initiative, we'll let you know what’s coming up, and how you can connect with members of our network working on the front-lines. Our weekly FAB consolidates links to some of the best analysis from our network, and we'll let you know about insider opportunities like important meetings, upcoming votes, embargoed papers, press conferences, freelance jobs, etc. which might be of interest. To receive the Fresh Air Brief, simply sign-up here.

Lastly, if you haven't yet, please make sure to follow us on Twitter & Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, get the Tck News app which gives you daily climate intelligence, breaking stories and the best blogs on climate change from around the world.

Thanks and we hope to hear from you soon.

Josh Wiese, Project Director for Fresh Air

  Heather Libby, Managing Editor for TckTckTck.org

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Peace!

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K. Chaitanya Kumar
Indian Youth Climate Network
Hyderabad
+91-9849016371
www.iycn.in
www.whatswiththeclimate.org

peace!