Duke University, based in Durham, NC, in the United States, is known to many for its basketball team, but it’s also a respected academic institution with 13,000 students and a significant research program.  One aspect of their research is led by the dean of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Enviornment, Bill Chameides.  Bill has his own excellent blog – probably worth bookmarking if you’re interested in the science of the environment.

In any case, although this is all about science and carbon and PCBs and equations at an academic level, there’s more to this than would be enjoyed only by the cast of The Big Bang Theory TVshow.  There’s also some fun to be had.  And it appears that Dean Chameides is a fun-loving guy.  That’s apparent in the video contest they’ve established.  EarthPM plans to produce an entry and we encourage as many project managers out there to take the challenge as well.  Think of it as a little project.

Yeah, yeah, blah blah, blah, so get to the $500 already!

Okay, okay…

The contest invites anyone to submit to the school aa 30-second (or less) video “telling us how you would make the environment better. Nothing is off the table: silly or serious, sizeable or small. Write your 3 words with cereal, scribble them on cards, draw them in the sky. Shoot them with your camera, cell phone, or web cam”.

Here is the information on how to enter the contest:

3 Steps to $500

Step: 1
Register on YouTube and upload
your video here >

Step: 2
Fill out the video submission form here >

Step: 3
Add your video to the Green in 3 group
(details and instructions will be provided
after you submit the entry form)

Good luck.  Expect to see an entry from EarthPM and we expect to see the Project Management discipline well-represented….RIGHT?

…the Boston Globe, that is.

As we move closer towards COP15 in Copenhagen, coverage for the environment will reach a crescendo this week.  You will be inundated with information about the environment, greenhouse gases, trading caps, protests, and so on.  Here at EarthPM we will do our best to sift through the politics and bring you the most scientific and most meaningful-t0-project-managers information on which we can lay our hands.

Case in point: the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe has a nice feature on Page A20, and the online version of the Globe contains a video to which we send you with this link.

If you’d like to read the entire article, here is that link for your convenience.

Enjoy!