18 August 2004

Final call for environmental awards

For immediate release: Thursday 19 August 2004 A final call has gone out for nominations for an award that celebrates the region’s environmental heroes.

Environment Bay of Plenty’s Environmental Awards close on Friday 27 August so time is running out, says coordinator Sheree Phillips. She says that, if people don’t hurry, “they’ll be too late”.

The awards celebrate people, community groups and educational organisations that are helping to improve and protect the region’s environment. Anyone can nominate a person or organisation. You can also enter yourself.

Each category has up to three awards, with winners receiving up to $1000.

For an application form contact Sheree Phillips on 0800 ENV BOP (368 267), email info@envbop.govt.nz, or check Environment Bay of Plenty’s website on www.envbop.govt.nz.

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>>