For the 13th consecutive year our friends at SURFRIDER EUROPE held their annual “Ocean Initiatives” on March 21 thru 23rd all across Europe, mobilizing over 15,000 people to help cleanup beaches, lakes and rivers.
This year was again another success with over 335 cleanups taking place (260 of them in France) regardless of the terrible weather conditions across Europe throughout the weekend.
I’ve known Stephane Latxague, Director of Surfrider Europe for about 2 years and am really impressed with the work he and his team do year round walking the talk, teaching and motivating people tirelessly to restore and protect our Planet. It’s this kind of dedication that motivates us at Laneo to continue working hard to help teams like Surfrider Europe to enhance their operations and develop their impact.
Take a minute and checkout their dedicated site for this operation HERE (it’s in 6 languages and has loads of really interesting information, photos, videos, maps…).
Surfrider Foundation Europe works in conjunction with the other branches of Surfrider Foundation all around the world.
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: events, environment
The very well known and admired French Journalist – Would Be Politician – Environmental Guru & Foundation President, Nicolas HULOT’s initiative DEFI POUR LA TERRE has launched a web portal aimed at Outdoor Enthusiasts. This 3 year old online community – organization has become a great success here in France providing a very impressive range of tools and services to stimulate citizen participation in the Environmental – Climate – Social issues, all of it being expertly relayed by the very charismatic Nicolas Hulot during his TV and Radio shows and other media appearances and conferences. The Outdoor Sports portal provides a carbon impact evaluation test, “how-to” pamphlets and other media tools for each major outdoor sport and links to the other services of the site in order to encourage those playing outdoors to start taking action.
This is yet another great initiative that is sure to have great exposure and we hope a big impact for the summer vacation season and we’re especially proud to see that this site has be jointly developed by one of Laneo’s good friends “MOUNTAIN RIDERS”; a superbly run small outfit in the French Alps, check these guy’s out!
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: websites, sports
For our European readers, the 2nd edition of RAID’SPECT will take place this year on June 14 & 15 at Hauteville Lompnes in France. Co-Sponsored by the UFOLEP and QUECHUA, this unique event combines; MTB, Orienteering, Canyoning, Via Ferrata, Archery etc.. by teams of 2. The event is practically “carbon zeo” and everything is done to try to reduce environmental impact to literally nothing more than a family outing, even the food is locally produced and entirely organic. Run in parallel, there is a Eco-Expo with a number of manufacturers, local and national associations and federations that help participants understand how they can participate further and there are a series of debates & conferences that animate the 2 day event for those that aren’t participating in the raid.
We at Laneo think that last year’s event was great and this year’s will no doubt be even better, so check out the event, it’s not too late!
Posted by: andrew |
Tags: sports, events
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