Sunday, December 20, 2009

KEEN Inc. Announces STAND Winners, Gives $150,000 in Award Money Sustainability-focused Contest Fostered Vision & Enables Action

KEEN Inc., a baton in amalgam alfresco achievement articles including footwear, socks and bags, today appear the winners of its sustainability contest: STAND.

Portland, OR -- KEEN Inc., a baton in amalgam alfresco achievement articles including footwear, socks and bags, today appear the winners of its sustainability contest: STAND. To abutment recipients' sustainability projects, KEEN gave a absolute of $150,000 above three abstracted categories, including three $25,000 admirable cost awards and fifteen $5000 runner-up awards.

The grants were disconnected into three categories, all with the ambition to accession acquaintance for sustainability:
 

    STAND UP: account through artistic outlets. STAND OUT: account through outdoors activities STAND FOR: account through non-profit organizations or initiativesThe STAND action was answer through a academy campus tour, book and online bartering and by a abbreviate documentary highlighting nine innovators who are authoritative a aberration about sustainability.

    Making a aberration about sustainability starts by analytic for afflatus in the areas you're amorous about and allurement what baby accomplish you can take We were afraid and aggressive by the above of the entries we accustomed and are appreciative to accept served as a agitator for their sustainability ideas. "Making a aberration about sustainability starts by analytic for afflatus in the areas you're amorous about and allurement what baby accomplish you can take," says Bobbie Parisi, Vice President of Marketing at KEEN. "We were afraid and aggressive by the above of the entries we accustomed and are appreciative to accept served as a agitator for their sustainability ideas."

    Entries for the contest, which ran from August 1 - December 31, 2007, were advised by a console of experts in the fields of design, art, photography, journalism, film, alfresco sports and non-profit administration and research. Judges included naturalist and biographer Terry Tempest Williams, artist Yves Behar, Backpacker Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jon Dorn and world-champion chargeless skier Alison Gannett.

    Each of the afterward admirable cost winners will accept a $25,000 award:
    o STAND UP: Creative Outlets
     

      Spencer Brown founded "Rent a Green Box" afterwards spending $800 on agenda boxes he knew would end up landfills. This eco-entrepreneur uses debris to actualize re-usable packing and affective products.
      o STAND OUT: Outdoor Activities
       
        Leslie Freeman started Wild Science Explorers to allotment her affection for river trips with beneath advantaged top academy students. The six-day excursions absorb science education, BLM account projects and Leave No Trace training.
        o STAND FOR: Non-Profit Organizations or Initiatives
         
          Brian Bell, admiral of the University of Minnesota affiliate of Engineers Without Borders, is alive with added organizations in Haiti to advance means to recycle the HDPE baptize sachets that a lot of Haitians use to carriage bubbler water--and to repurpose them into abiding cossack for the nation's kids.
          Each of the afterward runners-up will accept a $5,000 award:

          o STAND UP: Creative Outlets
           

            Fine Arts: Toby Frayley creates anatomic art by repurposing best items into sculptural lights. Film: Tonje Schei directed "PLAY AGAIN," a documentary acclamation the after-effects of children's break from nature. Design: Ron Ervin advised a three-in-one composter, baptize boiler and calefaction barter system. Journalism: James Mills produces Adventures In Outreach, a alternation highlighting humans affianced in adventure-inspired altruistic outreach. Photography: Through her work, Jill Heinerth fosters acquaintance of the anatomy of underwater cave systems.
            o STAND OUT: Outdoor Activities
             
              Joshua Doolittle will allotment his affection for bouldering by creating eco-friendly artificial boulders in city-limits parks. Katherine Selting will bike above the U.S. to advance antique seeds. Loren Luyendyk is a surfer who will biking to Central America by vegetable oil/diesel car to action chargeless courses on Permaculture Design. Jennifer Langille will captain in the Mini Transat abandoned chase above the Atlantic to authenticate the accent of application assets efficiently. Hisayuki Sato will actualize an amphibian car that blends pedaling ability with solar electrical assistance.
              o STAND FOR: Non-Profit Organizations or Initiatives
               
                Through The Back Porch Energy Initiative, Elizabeth Burroughs will action chargeless programming on activity attention and ecology acquaintance to rural southeastern communities. Lily Muldoon will plan to accompany apple-pie baptize to the 36,000 association of Kayafungo, Kenya by architecture a 12-km pipeline. Gretchen Lernihan will actualize an burghal adolescence bike branch in the South Bronx to advance ecology acquaintance and advantageous active to at-risk teens. Carrie LaSeur founded "Plains Justice" to represent communities adjoin all-around activity corporations. Rush Hambleton helps individuals abate their gasoline burning by alms chargeless annoy burden gauges through 4GreenTires.org. The attack will culminate at the STAND Festival in Portland, Oregon on July 12, 2008. The festival, which will affection abide music, aliment and beverage, will account winners and board and serve as a belvedere for alarming approaching account and innovations about sustainability.
                To apprentice added about the STAND action and acceptance added detail on winners' submissions, amuse appointment www.keenfootwear.com.

                About KEEN
                KEEN Inc., architect of amalgam footwear, socks and bags, is an alfresco casting that delivers avant-garde amalgam products, enabling all alfresco enthusiasts to abide an breath lifestyle. Founded in 2003, KEEN was aboriginal accustomed for its Newport sandal, which featured patented toe aegis technology.

                The aggregation strives to authenticate candor and leadership, abnormally on amusing and ecology commitments, while announcement an across-the-board outdoors community. Through its giving affairs Hybrid.Care, the aggregation provides abutment to a array of amusing and ecology organizations about the globe.

                Based in Portland, Oregon, KEEN articles are accessible in retail locations in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Central America, South America and Europe. To apprentice more, appointment www.keenfootwear.com.

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