05 August 2004

Time running out to apply for environmental fund

For immediate release: Thursday 5 August 2004 Wanting funding for an environmental project? Then don’t delay. Applications for Environment Bay of Plenty’s Environmental Enhancement Fund close on Friday 20 August, and that’s only two weeks away.

Over the past few weeks, the fund’s coordinator Jillian Houghton has received a number of calls from people with ideas for environmental projects in their communities.

Now, she wants to make sure they don’t miss the deadline for getting applications in. “This is a final reminder to everyone to finish all the paperwork and hand their applications over. They haven’t got long to go.“

Ms Houghton is seeking “exciting and innovative projects” that will help promote, enhance or protect the natural or historic character of the environment, public access to it or people’s understanding of it. They can involve wetlands, lakes or rivers, heritage features, outstanding landscapes, historical or archaeological sites or the habitats of indigenous plants and animals.

Now in its fifth year, the fund has about $500,000 to allocate this year to community and district council projects.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>