Alison Gannett is better known as a World Champion extreme big mountain freeskier and competitive endurance mountain biker, but Global Kinect is more in awe that a women with such talent would dedicate her life to global betterment, as a global cooling consultant.

“I’m traveling around, talking to people about what they can do during the day and giving a presentation about my global adventures at night. My presentation is promoted more as an adventure sports show and less as a climate change show. I think that’s the ticket because otherwise you’re just preaching to the choir. If I’m in a surf town, I talk a lot about surfing. I try to tie in the predominant sport in the area. That way, people realize, hey, this is going to affect me. This is affecting my wave, my wildflowers, my snow. I better get on it,” as stated in National Geographic Adventure.

Alison wants to motivate people to begin small and expand their green efforts with her patent methodology called CROP ™. It stands for Calculate your carbon footprint, Reduce your carbon footprint, Offset your carbon footprint, and Produce your own power.

Check out alisongannett.com and watch featured videos on her idea and initatitives on what you can do to contribute to saving our planet for future generations.

Discover how New Yorkers can re-imagine the Big Apple, making it resilient, thriving, funky, healthy, and green. On Sunday, May 31, join a city-wide gathering of innovating individuals, groups, nonprofits, government organizations, and local businesses who are transforming today’s challenges into opportunities.

This is the first in a series of events to bring New York’s diverse “tribes of transformation” together to enact meaningful change.

The event features workshops, panels, music, art, food, info tables and more. Speakers will specifically address how YOU can make a direct impact in their area of expertise. Keynote speaker will be writer Colin Beavan, author of the influential sustainability blog No Impact Man, which aims to engage discussions on finding solutions to the environmental crisis (especially as related to consumerism.)

Other topics include: Renewable Engery & Efficiency, Green Jobs, Food Justice, Conscious Health and Living, Locally Supported Agriculture, Climate Change, DIY Art, Rooftop & Community Gardens, Media Activism, Resilient Neighborhoods & Communities, Local/ Alternative Currency.

Go & check it out!!!

For more details: evolver.net/event/townhall

Global Kinect recently attended the book launch of Josh Dorfman’s The Lazy Environmentalist on a budget. The basis of the book is to give consumers the knowledge to be green and do so without breaking the bank. This book comes at the perfect time when individuals, organizations and big business are scrutinizing their spending habits and have increased their interest on all the aspects of their environmental impact.

Now that being green is becoming a mainstream concept, The Lazy Environmentalist on a budget is a key tool for readers to be in the know on the latest developments. The book provides websites for everything from recycling old electronics, to systems that recycle water from faucets into the toilet.

Get this book! It is not only a quick, eye opening read, but also it can be used as the yellow pages for your transformation into the green world.

Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: New York City book release party

Today marks yet another year of celebration for all that is GREEN! There has been a strong push, in all sectors of the world, for the use of renewable energy. Today President Obama is in Iowa, touring at Trinity Structural Towers, the former Maytag plant which now houses a green manufacturing facility that produces towers for wind energy production.

President Obama stated, “Iowa , a leader in wind energy, is a perfect example of how a community can rebuild a local economy with investments in clean energy and efficiency. Trinity employs dozens of former Maytag employees and is part of the revitalization of a town hard hit by the closing of the Maytag plants.” This visit will hopefully solidify the President’s efforts to direct $15 billion annually for 10 years directed to the renewable-energy industry.

For a more personal take on the day, there are various ways you can join the one billion people around the world celebrating Earth Day:

· Go see: Disney’s movie “Earth” is out in theaters today and for every ticket sold from now until April 28^th, Disney will plant a tree. Currently, a half a million trees are projected to be planted, based off of ticket pre-sales.

· Attend: Project Earth Day takes place April 23, 2009, The USGBC Emerging Green Builders NY have teamed up with Project Earth Day to provide a platform for the green minded and future leaders in the building and fashion industries. Go and experience the forefront of sustainable high fashion. http://www.projectearthday.com/

· Check out: “The Story of Stuff” is a 20 minute fun factoid video clip exposing the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues as it pertains to society’s production and consumption patterns, asking viewers to create a more sustainable world. http://www.storyofstuff.com/

· Buy: Reusable bags. In a landfill, plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to degrade. As the plastic bag breaks down the tiny particles contaminate soil and waterways. Be apart of the solution and purchase reusable bags. http://www.reusablebags.com/

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On Thursday April 2, Global Kinect had the pleasure of partaking in the launch of “Return to Origins” Recycling Program along with Gossip Girl’s Kelly Rutherford, Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells and Origins Senior Vice President/General Manager Jane Lauder. Excited consumers at GM Plaza were armed with their recycled goods and rewarded with new Origins product and equipped with knowledge about their beauty and the environment.

The premise of the event was for consumers to bring empty beauty jars, bottles and or tubes, regardless of brands, to be recycled and in return the first 250 contributors received a free deluxe size A Perfect World Intensely hydrating body cream with White tea, plus Origins provided free A Perfect World™ hand and arm massages to all attendees. This event spread awareness about the fact that most cosmetic and toiletry bottles, tubes, caps and jars are not easily recognized as recyclable goods and as a result, these items account for 1/3 of all landfill waste.

The event was an absolute success, Global Kinect loved Origins concept of reaching their consumers by offering knowledge and free goodies! In addition to this event, Origins will have receptacles for empty cosmetic containers at over 450 Origins retail stores and department store counters nationwide.

Global Kinect first collaborated with Rainforest Native at the Sundance Film Festival, we loved the vibrancy of the jewelry and the company’s vision for all things sustainable!

Rainforest Native works with the local suppliers to ensure that their products use natural materials, are harvested with environmentally sustainable methods and receive approvals from IBAMA, the environment regulatory agency of Brazil. The company’s mission is one of philanthropy, donating money from the sale of its jewelry to rainforest conservation.

Rainforest Native products have been seen at the green pavilion during the Oscars and Global Kinect’s campaign for “Greenhouse Gives Back”. Check out www.rainforestnative.com and revamp your spring wardrobe with sustainable and fair-trade jewelry, from Brazil.

Global Kinect is excited to be partnering with the non-profit Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) to support renewable energy. By working with BEF we are now offsetting all of our office electricity use with clean, wind energy. Our support of wind energy is helping to keep at least 9,100 pounds of CO2 out of the air. That’s the equivalent of keeping a car parked for a whole year. You can find out more about BEF and how to reduce your carbon footprint by visiting www.b-e-f.org.com. - A. Lam

“Simply stated, clean coal is a dirty lie”

On Februrary 2009, Global Kinect launched the “GREENHOUSE GIVES BACK” campaign in which each month Greenhouse highlights differen non for profit organizations with environmental initiatives and promotes their ongoing efforts for sustainability.

Waterkeeper Alliance kicked off their initiative with “The Dirty Lie Campaign”, on February 26, 2009. Notables included, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Gloria Reuben,  Andre Balazs and fashion designer Nicole Miller.

 Waterkeeper’s goal is to provide a voice for waterways and their communities worldwide, so visit www.thedirtylie.com and learn what the coal company’s don’t want the public to know.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Gloria Reuben

Andre Balazs

Nicole Miller

Global Kinect ladies preparing for the event.

Setting up of the step and repeat.