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A nice angle on “Green” - 15 Mar 2009

We’re a big fan of the guy’s at “Do The Green Thing” and we love the angle they’ve taken on trying to improve things – check them out !!

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Before putting your toes in the water - 11 Feb 2009

Before going to your nearest “watering hole” this spring (and summer), check out this great website “Eye on the Earth” and up to the minute map run by the European Environmental Agency.

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Run There: A new web based running community - 24 Nov 2008

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Laneo Awards: A Step in the Right Direction - 06 Aug 2008

Laneo has just launched LANEO AWARDS – a program designed to reward sports industry manufacturers for developing innovative products that respect our planet.

Laneo selects 12 products during each of the European tradeshows:

Eurobike
A Laneo committee then considers whether each product:

1. Incorporates natural, organic, bio, sustainable or recycled materials.
2. Enhances the category by adding value or innovation, rather than simply creating a marketing statement about the environment.
3. Supports a long usage cycle – i.e. the product should be top quality and not follow trends that encourage consumption and waste.

Laneo does not officially endorse these products, and absolutely no money, publicity or promotional work is exchanged. The awards were created to inform outdoor enthusiasts about products and manufacturers that are taking positive steps to protect our planet. The winners are welcome to use the recognition at their discretion for one year.

Check it out here > http://awards.laneo.org/

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Mountain Riders goes to the mountains - 22 May 2008

If you want to get involved in a really great initiative and you’re near or visiting the French Alps, then go and check out our friends MOUNTAIN RIDERS and their annual Cleanup Weekend Website here.

This is another great team made up of Skiers, Snowboarders, Mountain Bikers, Climbers and generally passionate outdoor enthusiasts that have been extremely successful at animating a tremendous range of Eco-initiatives from School Classes, Publications, Partnerships (see previous post on the “Defi pour la Terre”) and Guide Books; you can practically not visit the Alp Region without seeing something from this Association !

Probably the favorite moment of the year for us at Laneo is their series of cleanups that they organize with a growing number of local associations and communities. These events draw big crowds of people that are always astonished to see the extent of the mess left behind after the snow thaws – and we guarantee that once you see it, you can’t forget it !

It’s happening this weekend, May 24th & 25th and there are an unimaginable number of ski stations that are involved (and others all throughout the summer), so there must be one near you – Laneo hopes to see you there !!

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WIRED June 08: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green - 21 May 2008

Wired Magazine’s June issue “Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green”, will certainly raise a few eyebrows when it comes out next month.

This highly admired magazine has always taken the “out of the box” angle on a tremendous variety of subjects but this time, it’s journalists are tackling one of humanities current hot topics; the Planet.

Their point is that we should embrace change and actually “slaughter some of environmentalism’s sacred cows” such as a) accept genetic engineering, b) embrace nuclear power, c) A/C is ok and others in order to win the war on global warming.

We’re impatiently awaiting the issue to hit our news stands in Paris but whatever we read, we’ll continue to take our bikes to work, each local grown food and prefer sustainable products.

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Patagonia Footprint Chronicles adds more products - 28 Apr 2008

At Laneo we love simple, fun and thought provoking websites especially those that grasp the potential of the web and what some call Web 2.0 (from Wikipedia: ” Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.”).

One of our favorite brands is PATAGONIA and we try and follow every initiative they launch and we especially liked last year’s launch of their so-called “FOOTPRINT CHRONICLES” which they describe as,

“The Footprint Chronicles is an interactive mini-site that allows you to track the impact of ten specific Patagonia products from design through delivery.”

What was deemed as “just a gimmick” from their detractors and competitors was shortsighted; this is a perfect example of how an easy to use tool that provides total visibility into a company’s’ sourcing and production can have a positive impact on not only the manufacturer itself but also, educate the consumer on their clothing and other purchases.

Patagonia went even farther and provided a feedback form that linked directly to their blog and provided them with the input to add, just recently, 5 new products from their spring 2008 lineup!

The point is, using the web to display meaningful metrics on a macro level and promoting user input can produce some big changes in corporate decision making and help steer us all to a cleaner future.

5 stars from us at Laneo!

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Moovement on Earth Day - 22 Apr 2008

Today is Earth Day and Laneo teamed up with some good friends of ours, and renowned French Web Start-Up, MOOVEMENT (Recruiting 2.0), to promote human resources as a determining factor in sustainable development via a dedicated web recruiting site called, ECO-MOOVEMENT.

Richard Menneveux, Co-Founder, and I have often talked about this tirelessly and he has been a leading figure here in France and in Europe on improving the “match-making” between individuals and companies based on intrinsic personal values and innovative technology.

At Laneo, we’re still in the development phase and won’t be recruiting more than 4-5 additional people this year but when we do, we’re going to be looking for “special people” with not only business acumen; people who’s outdoor values match ours and who want to further the environmental cause.

Initiatives like MOOVEMENT are another great example at how leading edge web-based systems are helping bring the “right” people together that is going to make our place, planet earth, a better place to live!

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Earth Spirit from Snowbroader - 17 Apr 2008

Everyone knows that the dudes at Snowbroader are totally cool but what they just did for the Planet is out of this world!

One of Laneo’s 1st members and co-founder of Snowbroader, Nicolas, just sent me the link to their new on-line store and blew me away when he announced that for every item sold, 1€ was going to be donated to Laneo to help clean up our playground!

If that isn’t concrete stuff, I don’t know what is.

Check out their blog and spread the word; the more we are, the more we can do!

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DEFI POUR LA TERRE plays up a site for Outdoor Enthusiasts - 15 Mar 2008

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!

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